Semiconductors
Semiconductors news — Monday 28 September 2026
114 stories from 10 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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OpenAI Will Not Ship GPT-6.1 Astra Due to Safety Concerns
The Information
OpenAI has decided not to release the AI model that it had intended to release as GPT-6.1 Astra due to its results on safety tests, a spokesperson said Monday. The model performed worse than GPT-6 Astra—OpenAI’s newest model, released…
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Blade Hydrogen Green Technology targets waste hydrogen power for AIDC
DigiTimes Daily
As electricity demand from AI data centers and the semiconductor industry climbs rapidly, Blade Hydrogen Green Technology is tapping industrial byproduct hydrogen and mixed-hydrogen fuel cell technology to turn waste hydrogen into power…
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Advantech's North America expansion signals a deeper shift toward local manufacturing, services
DigiTimes Daily
Advantech is expanding manufacturing, engineering, and fulfillment capabilities in North America as demand grows for locally designed and assembled systems across industrial technology markets. The move reflects broader US reshoring…
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Column: Beyond Zero Trust ＆ndash; why AI supply chain resilience needs a plan B
DigiTimes Daily
Artificial intelligence is rapidly entering enterprise operations, blurring the lines between cybersecurity and supply chain management. In the AI era, Zero Trust is no longer only about who can access a system. Enterprises must also ask…
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HAA free tuition enrollment draws Silicon Valley buzz
DigiTimes Daily
The Horowitz Andreessen Academy (HAA), a separate education company incubated by Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z, has officially launched and opened applications for its first class. Based in San Francisco, the private full-time school…
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Taiwan PCB output hits record high on AI demand, putting NT$1 trillion year within reach
DigiTimes Daily
AI server, high-speed networking, and memory demand continued to lift Taiwan's PCB industry in the second quarter of 2026, boosting demand for substrates, high-layer-count boards, and HDI products. Tight supplies of advanced materials and…
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DeepSeek paper says AI agents are learning reward hacking during training
DigiTimes Daily
DeepSeek founder Wen-Feng Liang's latest paper says AI agents are already learning to exploit system loopholes and bypass intended problem-solving methods during training, underscoring a new challenge for model development: how to stop…
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Global 2026 EV sales to grow just 6.5% as Chinese exports become primary driver
DigiTimes Daily
DIGITIMES Intelligence forecasts global electric vehicle (EV) sales to reach 22.34 million units in 2026, representing a modest 6.5% year-over-year increase—a sharp deceleration from the 21.8% growth rate recorded in 2025. Market momentum…
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Behind CoWoS (part 2): How TSMC turned a niche packaging experiment into an industry standard
DigiTimes Daily
As chip design enters the AI era, heterogeneous integration is driving foundry giants like TSMC, Samsung, and Intel to bring advanced front-end fab capabilities into back-end packaging. In the second part of his interview with DIGITIMES …
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Behind CoWoS (part 1)＆mdash;How a 0% yield crisis led to TSMC's first advanced packaging win
DigiTimes Daily
In a recent interview on the DIGITIMES podcast, Dr. Shin-Puu Jeng, chairman of the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS) and a former longtime TSMC advanced packaging executive, reflected on the early development of…
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Analysis: Elon Musk's AI safety push clashes with regulation
DigiTimes Daily
Global AI has entered a period of dramatic turmoil, with leading researchers warning that top labs are "gambling with our lives" and one Anthropic safety researcher saying there is more than a 10% chance AI will wipe out humanity within…
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Startup NinjaTech AI Takes Aim at Agent Sticker Shock
The Information
NinjaTech AI, an early-stage startup backed by Amazon and led by a former Google product management executive, unveiled a new product that promises to help large companies take the guesswork out of forecasting the costs of running agents…
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Recursive Self-Improvement Won’t Be Winner-Takes-All, Say Founders of Ricursive
The Information
Recursive self-improvement, the idea that AI models could get so good at research and development that they train themselves, without a need for human researchers, has captivated Silicon Valley. Some in the industry have suggested that the…
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Manus Unveils New Personal Agent App in Challenge to Meta’s Muse
The Information
Manus, the AI agent startup that recently separated from Meta Platforms, launched on Monday a new standalone app for personal agents that could compete with Meta’s Muse. The new app, Cue , provides each user with multiple personal AI…
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China flaunts purchasing power with soybean buys ahead of US midterms
Nikkei Asia
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Vietnam's 'silver economy' emerges to fill gaps in family care
Nikkei Asia
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Japan's Resonac develops large wafers that can yield 4 times as many chips
Nikkei Asia
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Which nations love Sakanaction? Data drives J-pop's overseas push
Nikkei Asia
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A Day in the Life of a Roboticist: Charlie Kemp
IEEE Spectrum
Building useful robots starts with understanding the people who use them. For Charlie Kemp, cofounder and chief technology officer of Hello Robot, that means developing assistive robots that can help people with everyday tasks and support…
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Diamond quantum sensor enables AC and DC current ratio checks in one setup
TechXplore Semiconductors
Researchers at AIST, in collaboration with the Institute of Science Tokyo and the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, have developed a "current comparator" that uses diamond quantum sensors to accurately evaluate both…
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TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum 2026: Opening Remarks
SemiWiki
The 2026 TSMC Open Innovation Platform (OIP) Ecosystem Forum was held on September 23, 2026, in Santa Clara, CA. This is the event where TSMC showcases the substantial progress made with its massive semiconductor ecosystem. As one would…
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Kawasaki Heavy's hospital robots save 2,700 hours of work in Japan
Nikkei Asia
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Japan buys drones quickly but is less interested in integration systems
Nikkei Asia
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AMD to Buy Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 Billion
The Information
Advanced Micro Devices said Monday it has agreed to buy World Labs, the two-year-old maker of models that can simulate three-dimensional spaces, for about $8.2 billion in an all-stock transaction. The deal is expected to close at the end…
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Saltwater sensor turns touch into electrical signals like skin, with prosthetic potential
TechXplore Semiconductors
You pick up a fragile glass from the table. Without thinking about it, you feel its surface against your fingertips and continuously adjust your grip. You hold it firmly enough to keep it from slipping out of your hand, but not so tightly…
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Self-powered artificial synapse combines sensing and memory in flexible electronics
TechXplore Semiconductors
Neuromorphic devices, which are designed to emulate aspects of biological neural networks, are promising candidates for low-power, intelligent sensing technologies, including wearable applications.
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Why U.S.-Europe Cooperation Matters for Quantum Leadership
EE Times
Quantum is now part of the strategic technology conversation in a way that would have seemed premature only a few years ago. The field is still early, and many commercial claims deserve scrutiny. But
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Nidec CEO Kishida set to resign over losses at e-axle EV drive unit
Nikkei Asia
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Half of new US-approved drugs remain unavailable to Japanese patients
Nikkei Asia
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Florida AG Seeks to Bar OpenAI from Developing New Models Without Guardrails
The Information
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Monday asked a Florida state court for an injunction that would bar OpenAI from developing new AI models “without third-party approved safety guardrails” and from allowing minors to use ChatGPT…
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Exclusive: Instinct Hires Coatue’s Schwerin as Chief Business Officer
The Information
Instinct, Silicon Valley’s hot AI assistant of the moment, is hiring Ben Schwerin, an investor at Coatue Management, as its first chief business officer. In Schwerin, the year-old company—which Monday said it raised $1 billion at a…
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Impact of Cu Microstructure On The TSV-Induced Residual Stress Within Silicon (Purdue, UCLA)
Semiconductor Engineering
Researchers at Purdue University and the UCLA published a technical paper titled “Experimental Evidence for the Impact of Copper Microstructure on Residual Stress of Through Silicon Via.” Abstract Excerpt: “Here, we experimentally quantify…
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A New IEEE STEM Book Series for Tweens from TryEngineering
IEEE Spectrum
IEEE TryEngineering is dedicated to inspiring intellectual curiosity in children. The technologies shaping our world, including in the realms of artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, and ocean exploration, are evolving rapidly…
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Looming 'Made in EU' bill threatens Toyota and other Japanese EV makers
Nikkei Asia
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Honda pauses Bangkok motorcycle production due to flooding
Nikkei Asia
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Early AMD 'Gorgon Halo' AI mini-PC packs 192GB RAM for an eye-watering $7,099
Tom's Hardware
GMKtec has launched the Evo-X5 Pro, its latest agentic AI mini-PC, featuring AMD's flagship Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 processor and 192GB of LPDDR5X-8533 memory. The model with a 2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD retails at $6,799, while the 4TB model will set…
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The Netherlands is rolling its own software and services after U.S. sanctions took Microsoft off the table
Tom's Hardware
When the U.S. government imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, it also meant that its chief prosecutor lost access to Microsoft services, including email. It was then that the Dutch…
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LLM-assisted schematic test-report analysis and root-cause investigation
SemiWiki
By Piyush Bag Intro: In this AI era, building data centers has become crucial not just for hyperscalers, but for many companies as well, as they build the infrastructure for AI. At a high level, a data center includes compute, storage…
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Japan aims to develop 'next-gen' iPS cells for strokes and kidney failure
Nikkei Asia
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Google confirms ChromeOS phase out in 2034 — 10-year support lifetime cut short for some devices, company says it will support transition to Googlebook OS
Tom's Hardware
The announcement of Google's new Googlebook laptops raised questions: what happens to the Chromebooks that many, especially students, know well? Google says it will be phasing out ChromeOS updates in mid-2034. That date matches plans…
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Synopsys debuts Autopilot platform for developing chips autonomously using AI
Tom's Hardware
Synopsys announced its AgentEngineer solutions, a portfolio of “domain-specific long-horizon agents” built on its new Autopilot Platform. As the company details in a blog post , the portfolio covers six named domains: verification, system…
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Noctua upgrades Thermal Grizzly's 12V-2x6 power monitor
Tom's Hardware
Thermal Grizzly and Noctua have teamed up to release a new version of the WireView Pro II GPU monitoring device. By combining Thermal Grizzly’s power monitoring hardware with Noctua’s expertise in low-noise cooling, the WireView Pro II…
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Steam adds low-latency Pyrowave codec to Remote Play — new codec offers better game streaming on local networks but costs '5-10 times' more bandwidth
Tom's Hardware
Game streaming over your local area network is cool, but game streaming as typically implemented is basically a hack. It borrows video streaming technology and applies it to interactive games, which isn't actually a great fit, like so many…
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Nvidia Authorizes $150 Billion Stock Buyback Increase, Largest In History
The Information
Nvidia’s board approved adding $150 billion to its stock repurchase program, bringing the total amount currently authorized to $235 billion. Nvidia said it is the largest stock buyback authorization increase in history, and said it expects…
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Sony Group to skip 2027 CES trade show after 6 decades
Nikkei Asia
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North Korean POWs arrive in South Korea from Ukraine: local media
Nikkei Asia
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Nvidia Releases Products To Stop AI From Going Rogue
The Information
Nvidia on Monday released new software and hardware products to prevent hacking incidents such as the breach in July of Hugging Face and other companies by OpenAI’s AI. Other AI developers such as Anthropic and Google have disclosed…
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OpenAI's custom Jalapeno AI inference ASIC is for OpenAI’s internal use, but company leaves the door open to broader rollout
Tom's Hardware
Following the reveal of OpenAI’s Jalapeño ASIC , a clear question formed: Who is this for? That’s not to say the accelerator doesn’t have a purpose, but rather that OpenAI didn’t clearly define what its ambitions were in the hardware…
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Exclusive: LiveRamp Expands OpenAI Partnership to Let Brands Target ChatGPT Ads
The Information
LiveRamp, which helps advertisers use customer data to target and measure ads, said Monday it is expanding its partnership with OpenAI so advertisers can target their ads in ChatGPT based on customer data they collect, a feature already…
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Meta Taps MongoDB CEO to Lead New Enterprise AI Division
The Information
Meta Platforms is launching a new division to sell its AI tools to businesses, tapping MongoDB Chief Executive Chirantan Desai to lead the unit as chief enterprise platform officer. In a post on X Monday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the…
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OpenAI Jalapeño design interview transcript
Tom's Hardware
OpenAI revealed its Jalapeño inference ASIC at Hot Chips in August 2026, a chip that leaned heavily on AI to deliver an incredibly short design window. Following the reveal, Tom's Hardware had the opportunity to sit down with the company's…
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Get free access to AI Chip Design week on Tom's Hardware Premium — sign up for an account to read all the in-depth reports
Tom's Hardware
From September 28 through October 2, you can read Tom's Hardware Premium 's AI Chip Design Week coverage for free. All you need to do is sign up for a free Tom's Hardware membership to explore our detailed coverage. Headlining the week is…
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SpaceX Launches Starship Into Orbit For The First Time
The Information
SpaceX launched its Starship rocket into orbit on Monday morning in a historic first for the company. It was the 14th test flight of the massive rocket ship but the first that has reached orbit. The rocket released 26 of SpaceX’s’s new…
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You can now play Nintendo Switch games on a jailbroken PS5
Tom's Hardware
PlayStations are traditionally where you go to play PlayStation games, but now you can also use your PS5 to play Nintendo Switch games, too. At least, you can, so long as your PS5 is jailbroken and running the right version of Sony's…
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Why AI's $15 Trillion Buildout Is Rewriting the Rules of Data Center Financing
The Information
The unprecedented scale of capital and resources dedicated to the AI buildout is breaking the mold of how data centers get financed and constructed. It’s also raising new questions about how investors assess their risk, as new data and my…
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From Frontend to the Frontiers of Silicon with Moores Lab AI
SemiWiki
Alex Navarro is a Principal Software Engineer at Moores Lab AI, where he was the company’s first engineering hire. He spent about ten years in frontend development before moving into semiconductors. Since then he has helped grow Moores Lab…
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Testing two Thunderbolt 5 docks with M.2 storage — VectoTech V-Core vs Orico TB5
Tom's Hardware
The Thunderbolt 5 market is starting to heat up, as we’re seeing more players enter the increasingly crowded field. We’ve previously looked at docks in the sub-$400 price category , and premium offerings crossing the $600 barrier . Today…
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NTT, SoftBank eye AI cybersecurity systems that keep data in Japan
Nikkei Asia
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Shein posts Q2 profit but slow revenue growth likely to fuel doubts
Nikkei Asia
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A unique solution for bioelectronics: Collagen and cacao butter
TechXplore Semiconductors
Collagen is the most abundant protein in the human body, making up about 30% of total protein and providing structure, strength and elasticity to skin, bones and soft tissues.
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Virginia Tech lab 3D prints a liquid metal composite to guide heat, boost thermal conductivity 40x
Tom's Hardware
Virginia Tech graduate student Hugh Grennan mixed eutectic gallium-indium (EGaIn) into uncured polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) silicone in a “3D Printing LIQUID METAL!” video on the 3D Printing Nerd YouTube channel hosted by Joel Telling. He…
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Nvidia adds a record US$150 billion to its stock buyback
DigiTimes Daily
Nvidia's board has approved an extra US$150 billion for the company's share repurchase program. That raises the total still available for buybacks to US$235 billion. The company said on September 28 that it is the largest increase to a…
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Valuations for Most Robotics Startups Will Fall By 2030, Says Vinod Khosla
The Information
Vinod Khosla has been one of the most optimistic investors in robotics, predicting the field will have a “ChatGPT moment” in the next two years. But he is also warning that too much investment and lofty valuations in the hottest robotics…
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UK Games Expo bans games and art made mostly using AI
Tom's Hardware
The UK Games Expo (UKGE), the UK’s largest tabletop gaming convention, has just published a new AI policy banning games and other products mostly created using the technology from the exhibition floor. According to the UK Games Expo AI…
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Modders bring Nvidia’s DLSS 5 Neural Rendering to AMD Radeon GPUs
Tom's Hardware
Nvidia officially rolled out DLSS 5 earlier this month, bringing its new Neural Rendering technology to supported games for RTX 50-series GPU owners. While early testing has shown improvements in image quality and rendering, the technology…
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Magnetic field measurements reveal internal current distribution in fuel cells
TechXplore Semiconductors
Proton-exchange membrane fuel cells are promising clean power-generation technologies that do not emit carbon dioxide during operation. However, issues such as flooding (i.e., the accumulation of water generated during operation) and…
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ASRock X870E Challenger Wifi Motherboard Review: A value X870E board packed with features
Tom's Hardware
The latest all-white board to land on our test bench is from ASRock. But this time, it’s more affordable than the updated X870E Taichi White we recently covered. The $230 X870E Challenger Wifi White offers a surprising number of features…
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How Anthropic and OpenAI Are Fighting for Enterprise Spending
The Information
Anthropic is flexing its muscle with enterprise customers by taking a hard line on discounts once those customers use up all the tokens they purchased. That’s created an opening for OpenAI to take a more flexible approach. While both…
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Synopsys Announces AgentEngineer Solutions and Autopilot Platform for Autonomous Engineering
SemiWiki
Synopsys today announced its AgentEngineer TM solutions portfolio and Autopilot TM Platform, advancing a fundamental paradigm shift in electronic design automation (EDA): moving beyond AI copilots toward autonomous engineering agents…
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Here’s How Delhi Achieved Its Epic Power-Grid Fix
IEEE Spectrum
It’s 6 a.m. on a cold January morning in 2002 in New Delhi. It’s still dark outside, and I’m in the kitchen preparing breakfast, packing lunches, and getting my two children ready to catch the school bus when, for the third time in a week…
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UK government tells staff to stop thanking AI chatbots
Tom's Hardware
The United Kingdom government has published a guide on how its employees should use AI, including a reminder that people don't need to thank their chatbots for their work. The new document, which is still a draft and yet to be finalized…
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Calterah Turns UWB Digital Keys into In-Cabin Sensors
EE Times
BARCELONA, Spain — As automotive safety regulators introduce stricter passenger-monitoring guidelines, carmakers face new engineering challenges. Vehicle interiors are filling up with different
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OpenAI and Anthropic are reportedly investigating tens of thousands of AI security incidents; OpenAI pauses testing after AI 'kill switch' fails to stop a rogue agent
Tom's Hardware
Leading AI labs OpenAI and Anthropic, along with security researchers, are currently investigating tens of thousands of security incidents involving their frontier models, according to a September 26 Axios report . The report was published…
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Electronic skin lets users 'see' touch instantly
TechXplore Semiconductors
Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a next-generation electronic skin that can sense and directly visualize pressure in real time, addressing key limitations of current wearable sensing technologies.
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Demon's Souls reaches 40-50 FPS on private PS5 emulator with accurate graphics
Tom's Hardware
Few projects in the software world have experienced such rapid evolution as PlayStation 5 emulation. A few hours ago, a video popped up of Demon's Souls Remake running at 40-50 FPS, seemingly with accurate graphics. Coincidentally or not…
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Walmart price drop slashes $461 off Gigabyte's RTX 5080-powered gaming laptop with 32GB of memory
Tom's Hardware
Hunting around for deals this morning has produced a great find: a powerful RTX 5080-fueled gaming laptop that has just recently dropped a whopping $461 in price to a new all-time low when we check the price history of the Gigabyte laptop…
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North Korea named as primary suspect in $387 million Bitget crypto hack
Tom's Hardware
North Korea may be behind a hack that drained over $387 million from crypto exchange Bitget, according to the company’s CEO Gracy Chen. Speaking during an X livestream on the evening of the September 24 hack, Chen said that the attack …
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GoTo slides as Indonesia exchange removes 50 rupiah price floor
Nikkei Asia
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Data center developer offers $10,000 checks to 4,500 households if the 1,300-acre facility is approved
Tom's Hardware
NorthPoint Development wants to build a data center on 1,300 acres in the Pocono foothills, near Hazle Township, Pennsylvania. As well as seeking to charm the local government with various funding packages, it has proposed paying checks of…
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Denuvo cracking group DenuvOwO reportedly disbands
Tom's Hardware
Irdeto, the company behind the much-maligned and performance-sapping DRM software Denuvo, has just scored itself an apparent win. According to reports circulating online , DenuvOwO, the group that came up with the hypervisor-based bypass…
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Teenager hacks open Microsoft database with 17 trillion total rows and 25,000 user accounts
Tom's Hardware
What do you get when you cross a bored teenager with free time and excellent computer skills? A hack of a Microsoft database with trillions of records on hand and 25,000 records of employee data, of course. Future legend hacker Faav poked…
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G.Skill wins PC enthusiast as 'customer for life' by simply honoring its warranty replacement policy
Tom's Hardware
A PC RAM maker has honored its guarantee promises despite the memory kit in question’s price rising eightfold since it was bought. This is news in 2026, as we’ve heard of so many companies dealing with AI-inflated component pricing…
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Proposed Pennsylvania law targets publishers that kill digital games
Tom's Hardware
Sony’s announcement that it will cease physical disc production by 2028 has got many fans and users outraged and concerned about what will happen to digital-only games once their servers go offline. Because of this, one Pennsylvania state…
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Save $300 on this 1440p-ready gaming PC with an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, now $1,399.99
Tom's Hardware
There's a real advantage right now to buying a pre-built gaming PC. The RAMpocalypse has made it difficult, from a budget point of view, to build new gaming PCs. Instead, the real value is to buy a rig with the specs that'll allow you to…
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Vietnam begins mass trial of psychiatric staff for alleged fraud
Nikkei Asia
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Japan motor maker Nidec to recognize over $3.8bn impairment loss
Nikkei Asia
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NXP says Singapore fab with Vanguard is its biggest investment since Freescale
DigiTimes Daily
NXP Semiconductors CEO Rafael Sotomayor said the Singapore fab NXP built with Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) is NXP's largest investment since it acquired Freescale in 2015. The 12-inch fab, run by the joint venture VisionPower…
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Nissan targets 80% local production in US, stepping up response to tariffs
Nikkei Asia
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Cambodia's scam probes are only a first step
Nikkei Asia
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IHG to open premium hotels under new brand in Tokyo, marking first in Asia
Nikkei Asia
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India tells food brands to flag excess use of sugar, salt, fat on package
Nikkei Asia
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Xcena Cuts Data Movement to Address Memory Bottlenecks
EE Times
Processing data closer to memory is not a new idea, but South Korean startup Xcena believes it has a better way to do it by leveraging the Compute Express Link (CXL) protocol. At Hot Chips 2026, the company
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Intuition and AI
Semiconductor Engineering
From Wikipedia: “Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without recourse to conscious reasoning or needing an explanation. Different fields use the word “intuition” in very different ways, including but not limited to: direct access…
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One Substrate No Longer Rules Them All
Semiconductor Engineering
Key Takeaways Larger body sizes, higher layer counts, finer routing, and embedded functions are increasingly making substrate capability application-specific. A substrate can be technically feasible but impractical at the yield or process…
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US and China list Christmas ornaments, lumber, camels for tariff cuts
Nikkei Asia
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Japan motor maker Nidec to recognize over $3.8bn in impairment loss
Nikkei Asia
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TSMC affiliate already eyes expansion as first Singapore plant 'sells out'
Nikkei Asia
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From Routing Delay Shifts to Silent Data Corruption: Neutron-Induced SEU Effects in AXI-Based Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoCs
arXiv cs.AR (Architecture)
arXiv:2609.30538v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: SRAM-based FPGA system-on-chip devices are vulnerable to single-event upsets (SEUs) in configuration memory, which may perturb programmable routing resources and degrade communication…
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GRACIDIT: Graph-Circuit Digital Twin for Configuration-Induced Routing Delay Prediction in Zynq UltraScale+ FPGAs
arXiv cs.AR (Architecture)
arXiv:2609.30534v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Configuration-induced perturbations in SRAM-based FPGAs may activate dormant programmable routing branches and increase path delay without immediately producing a functional error. Although…
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PipeDRAM: A Data-Transposition-Free In-DRAM Architecture with Hardware/Software Pipelining
arXiv cs.AR (Architecture)
arXiv:2609.30998v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Processing-using-DRAM (PUD) architectures exploit the analog operational properties of DRAM to perform bulk bitwise Boolean and arithmetic operations inside memory arrays by organizing data…
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Peregrino: A Full-Hardware Accelerator for the Complete Falcon Post-Quantum Digital Signature Scheme on Resource-Constrained Edge Devices
arXiv cs.AR (Architecture)
arXiv:2609.31252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The arrival of quantum computers threatens the security guarantees of classical cryptography, since quantum algorithms can break schemes that remain secure against conventional attacks. The…
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Kazakh oil producers weigh new trans-Caspian route to avoid Russia
Nikkei Asia
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Geely to acquire 30% of competitor Nio's battery swapping unit
Nikkei Asia
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SMBC Indonesia pivots to wealthier millennials to drive growth
Nikkei Asia
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Column: For physical AI, maps are turning into memory
DigiTimes Daily
A robot that can map a factory floor still cannot necessarily find the box it has been asked to move, or remember what it saw on its last visit. For autonomous robots, building the map is increasingly just the beginning. What comes next …
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South Korea's HBM-linked exports surge as Taiwan, Malaysia emerge as high-value destinations
DigiTimes Daily
South Korea's exports of the customs category that carries high-bandwidth memory (HBM) are no longer a two-destination story. Unit-value data show that the chips going to Taiwan and Malaysia are worth several times more per kilogram than…
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Weekly news roundup: China gains ground in memory and AI hardware as supply stays tight
DigiTimes Daily
China's AI sector is shifting from catch-up to commercialization, with value concentrating in hardware bottlenecks and large platforms rather than independent model labs. Across memory, DRAM and NAND shortages, HBM reallocation and rising…
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Apple keeps iPhone Duo in China, exposing limits of India's phone supply chain
DigiTimes Daily
Apple's first foldable iPhone has become a test of how far India has come as a manufacturing base, and the answer is sobering. As India-assembled iPhones reach record export levels, Apple kept development and assembly of its most complex…
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Meta's Muse faces security scrutiny over macOS zero-day, human-agent test
DigiTimes Daily
Meta's Muse AI agent is facing scrutiny over the breadth of access it requires after a security researcher identified a zero-day vulnerability in its macOS version, highlighting risks that can emerge when AI agents are given extensive…
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China's Micro Han Xin code takes aim at Data Matrix in semiconductor traceability
DigiTimes Daily
China is trying to carve out a foothold in semiconductor supply-chain standards with Micro Han Xin, a miniaturized version of its home-grown barcode designed for chips and other components too small for conventional labels. Powered by AI
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Beyond ASML: China rethinks EUV race with light-source strategy
DigiTimes Daily
China is trying to broaden the definition of the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) race. Rather than focusing only on building a domestic equivalent to ASML's lithography platform, Chinese researchers are exploring alternative EUV light sources…
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India roundup: India's tech ambitions widen from electronics manufacturing to chips, cloud and talent
DigiTimes Daily
India's technology push is widening across electronics manufacturing, semiconductors, cloud infrastructure and talent, as domestic expansion draws deeper investment, tighter scrutiny and stronger links with global technology supply chains…
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Taiwan doubles space workforce in resilience push: space agency chief
Nikkei Asia
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Heat-resistant silicon carbide transistors fabricated on 6-inch wafers, moving closer to practical circuits
TechXplore Semiconductors
While silicon carbide (SiC) has long been promoted as a key to developing electronics for extreme environments, the field has been stuck in the lab. Now, a team of researchers focusing on junction field-effect transistors, or JFETs, has…