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Xiaomi debuted its 18 Fold foldable smartphone at IFA 2026 in Berlin, positioning it against Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8 and confirming it will be the first device powered by its in-house XRING O3 chip, with a China launch…
Taiwanese firm Kintron Technology is expanding its Through Glass Via (TGV) substrate and glass micro-processing technologies for AI advanced packaging and co-packaged optics (CPO), highlighting its 12-inch TGV glass subs…
Sony's CMOS image sensor market share has reached approximately 50% globally, according to a Yole Group survey, matching Sony's internal projections and making the company a single chokepoint in the supply chain for adva…
Anker Innovations' audio sub-brand Soundcore unveiled nine new products at IFA 2026 in Berlin, including five audio models featuring the new THUS AI chip, which integrates artificial intelligence capabilities into the de…
SK hynix CEO Kwak Noh-jung said at the Aug. 26 groundbreaking that its $4 billion-plus Indiana fab will deliver the first 'Made in USA' HBM products, but the DRAM wafers will be made in South Korea and shipped to West La…
Intel's Xeon 658X processor, paired with an ASUS W890 SAGE SE motherboard, fails to reach its advertised 4.9GHz boost clock under default BIOS settings, topping out at 4.3GHz, according to a user on the Level1Techs forum…
BYD launched the Sealion 08 SUV with electric ranges up to 900 kilometers (559 miles) and prices starting at 229,900 yuan ($34,216), while its BYD Semiconductor arm began mass producing a 28-nanometer 4D millimeter-wave …
China is roughly 15 years behind in developing extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines, according to Frank Rohmund, head of the semiconductor division at Germany's Zeiss Group, a key supplier to ASML. Rohmund call…
OpenAI, Nvidia, and Anthropic are pursuing distinct AI compute strategies: OpenAI revealed its custom inference chip Habanero, claiming it beats Nvidia's GB200 and GB300 systems on latency and throughput per kilowatt, wh…
OpenAI, Nvidia, and Anthropic are pursuing divergent strategies in AI infrastructure, with OpenAI vertically integrating by developing its own inference chip (code-named Habanero) and cutting off future model access to C…
At SEMICON Taiwan 2026, Rani Borkar, President of Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure at Microsoft, urged the industry to adopt a 'yield imperative' for AI infrastructure, defining success not by raw capacity but b…
South Korea proposed a record 821 trillion won ($597 billion) budget for 2027, a 12.8% increase, including 2.6 trillion won ($1.9 billion) for semiconductor funding to bolster its AI chip industry. The Cabinet approved t…
IPronics, a Valencia-based startup spun out of the Technical University of Valencia, raised $125 million in a Series B round co-led by Maverick Silicon and Light Street Capital, with participation from Nvidia, bringing t…
Apple's M6 MacBook Pro, launching this fall with a 14-inch screen, will feature a Dual 16-core Neural Engine providing up to 2x peak compute over previous generations, a 12-core CPU and 12-core GPU with three distinct co…
At Hot Chips 2026, Arm emerged as the foundational architecture for the next generation of CPUs, with Arm central to four of six first-day CPU papers, including IBM's future dual-architecture Z and LinuxONE processor, NV…
Semiconductor test equipment demand is rising as AI accelerators and advanced packaging increase test content per sellable system, according to a report from the GPU Tsunami analysis. The report models required test capa…
Qualcomm has detailed the GPU in its next-generation Snapdragon flagship processors, adding AI-focused Adreno Matrix Cores and Adreno Neural Fusion technology for improved frame generation and super-resolution, with up t…
Nvidia and other investors have poured $125 million into iPronics, a photonics startup developing second-generation optical circuit switching (OCS) technology that could enable next-generation AI networks with hundreds o…
Qualcomm announced its next-generation Adreno Neural Fusion GPU, featuring dedicated AI Matrix Cores and an 18MB High Performance Memory cache, delivering a 40% power improvement for the upcoming flagship Snapdragon chip…
GlobalFoundries, the publicly traded semiconductor foundry, announced customer availability of its UX platform technologies for edge AI and connectivity applications, targeting a Physical AI market it estimates will exce…