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Semiconductors news — Saturday 10 October 2026

45 stories from 6 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.

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  1. Internecine strife -- and a bad ending: Stephen Schwarzman (11)
    JPNikkei Asia
  2. Toyota offers low-cost financing in Thailand to ward off cheap Chinese EVs
    JPNikkei Asia
  3. French defense contractor Thales to open Japan maintenance base
    JPNikkei Asia
  4. Classrooms should ban digital textbooks and AI
    JPNikkei Asia
  5. SPECviewperf 15.0.1 Linux Edition Released: Linux’s Key Graphics Benchmark Adds Arm Support
    USServeTheHome

    SPEC has released version 15.0.1 of SPECviewperf Linux Edition, bringing a slew of upgrades and official Arm support to Linux's key workstation graphics benchmark suite. We are taking a look at those changes, and what performance is like…

  6. Japan PM Takaichi works to shed reflationist label on market, US pressure
    JPNikkei Asia
  7. Ugreen’s 100W 4-port GaN charger drops 27% today
    USTom's Hardware

    A dedicated charging solution is a great way to declutter your desk and keep your essential gadgets charged whenever you need them. If you are looking for one, don’t miss this deal on the Ugreen Nexode 100W GaN wall charger. Currently on…

  8. UK-Japan-Italy fighter plans Japan design center with '1,000' staff
    JPNikkei Asia
  9. SoftBank seeks $100 billion for AI-refined projects from Middle Eastern investors
    USTom's Hardware

    Masayoshi Son, founder of SoftBank, is seeking up to $100 billion from Gulf investors to establish a fund that would acquire companies and improve their operations using artificial intelligence and robotics, according to the Financial…

  10. Super Micro smuggling co-conspirator pleads guilty to sending AI chips to China
    USTom's Hardware

    Ting-Wei “Willy” Sun, a third-party broker and “fixer” who’s been charged alongside Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw and sales manager Ruei-Tsang “Steven” Chang for conspiring to unlawfully divert Nvidia AI chips to China, has…

  11. PS5 hack delivers native PS2 disc support and 4K upscaling where Sony refused to — after PS2 breakthrough, homebrew dev confirms PS3 disc support is next for PS5
    USTom's Hardware

    Don’t throw away your PlayStation 2 games just yet. Modder Sword has released PS5SX2 for jailbroken PlayStation 5 consoles. This new software brings PlayStation 2 games to Sony’s latest console and supports physical discs, letting you…

  12. Zuckerberg’s Big Biotech Moment
    USThe Information

    • The Big Read: Meet Zach Frankel, the secretive investor behind Cognition, Ramp • Why techies are hoarding AI compute in their homes • Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “ Bram Stoker’s Dracula ,” “ The AGI Chronicles ”…

  13. This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: October 10, 2026
    USTom's Hardware

    In case you've been missing out on the action over on Tom's Hardware Premium , we're back with another roundup to fill you in on everything you missed. Central to this week's theme is how Artificial Intelligence and its subsequent buildout…

  14. Senate investigation says that some AI data center claims are misleading
    USTom's Hardware

    The U.S. Senate has been conducting a year-long investigation into AI data centers, and its findings suggest that some developers have been misleading the public about the costs and benefits that these projects bring to their communities…

  15. GPUs in the Wine Cellar: Why Techies Are Hoarding AI Compute in Their Homes
    USThe Information

    The basement of Gary Flake’s contemporary home in a quiet neighborhood in Bellevue, Wash., is furnished with everything you’d expect in a multipurpose man cave. There’s a cozy-looking couch situated between a large screen and a digital…

  16. We tested gaming performance in 17-year-old Windows 7 on a modern gaming PC against Windows 11
    USTom's Hardware

    After the rough reception of Windows Vista, Windows 7 launched in 2009 to largely positive reviews. Even 17 years later, it remains one of the most beloved versions of Windows ever released. But how does this nearly two-decade-old…

  17. Top AI labs reportedly planning for catastrophic AI event fallout
    USTom's Hardware

    Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI labs are reportedly gaming out scenarios where a rogue AI wreaks havoc on critical infrastructure, like financial services, internet and telecommunications, or utilities such as power and water. According to…

  18. Free Steam demo runs up $1,000 daily AI bill and forces devs to take out bank loan
    USTom's Hardware

    Easy Fox, the developers behind a free, AI-powered game demo on Steam, has been forced to take out a bank loan as more players tried out its title. The game, called Teach My Little Sister How To Drive , uses Google Gemini to listen to your…

  19. Nvidia reportedly halts GeForce RTX 5090 production in favor of AI data center and professional GPUs
    USTom's Hardware

    Nvidia has reportedly ceased selling its GB202 graphics processors for consumer-grade GeForce RTX 5090-series add-in-boards (AIBs), including 'D' variants for the Chinese market, according to a leaked notice from an unknown factory cited…

  20. Hyper-NA EUV: The Next Frontier in Chipmaking Could Arrive in 2036
    USSemiWiki

    EUV has long been an interesting story. We have written 200+ articles on EUV and they just keep on coming. Thankfully the premier lithography conference is right here in Silicon Valley. SPIE began in 1955 as the Society of Photographic…

  21. Russian modder slaps DLSS 5 onto Pac-Man with 4x Multipass
    USTom's Hardware

    Ukranian DLSS 5 experimenting YouTube channel Valery Kryzhanovsky showcases the MS-DOS version of Pac-Man with 4x Multipass in four different rendering modes. The video shows weird and glitchy effects, with some rendering modes completely…

  22. AnyPS5 project reaches critical GPU milestone in race to enable running PS5 games natively on PC
    USTom's Hardware

    The open-source AnyPS5 project has reached 100% GPU shader instruction coverage, a significant milestone in its effort to run PlayStation 5 games natively on Windows and Linux PCs. The project's live progress tracker now lists all 1,166…

  23. Crazed modder straps 360mm AIO radiator to laptop, cuts temps to below 40 degrees
    USTom's Hardware

    YouTube hardcore PC modder TrashBench attached waterblocks, a water pump, and a 360mm radiator to a Metabox laptop with an Nvidia GTX 1060 and Intel Core i7-8750H. This Frankenstein’s monster of a laptop dropped a whole 60℃ on both the CPU…

  24. Dutch greenhouse firms in China pivot to selling software
    JPNikkei Asia
  25. Ukrainian drones strike largest data center in Russia, multiple parts of 1.4 million square foot campus knocked offline
    USTom's Hardware

    Hot on the heels of a Ukrainian drone strike on a Russian Yandex data center in Sasovo that caused a major outage, a Yandex facility in Kaluga has been struck in a similar fashion. The huge data center was so badly damaged that Russian…

  26. World’s first 3D-printed remote control aircraft with a jet turbine takes flight, aims for Mach 0.8 to beat world record for fastest model aircraft
    USTom's Hardware

    The Kingchaser, a 3D-printed jet-powered remote-controlled aircraft made out of PETG , PPS-CF, carbon-fiber rods, and aluminum, aims to take the world speed record after its maiden flight, with a target of Mach 0.8. The Mach Initiative…

  27. Trump sanctions will not break the ICC, court's special adviser declares
    JPNikkei Asia
  28. Russia's attacks on Kyiv test civilian resilience as winter looms
    JPNikkei Asia
  29. Phison posts record September revenue as AI tops half of sales
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    Phison Electronics reported record September consolidated revenue of NT$30.639 billion (US$959 million), up 8% from August and 370% from a year earlier. The Taiwanese storage chipmaker said AI-related applications accounted for more than…

  30. Trump awards science medal to Elon Musk, Jensen Huang
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    US President Donald Trump will award the National Medal of Science to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and several other tech leaders, with major figures from the industry set to gather again on October 8, local time. The honors highlight Trump's…

  31. Huawei faces price reset as memory costs surge
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    Huawei consumer business group chairman Richard Yu said surging memory component costs have added more than US$200 to the hardware cost of each Huawei smartphone, putting fresh pressure on handset pricing as the broader memory market…

  32. Zhen Ding posts record September sales on mobile demand and AI applications
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    Zhen Ding Technology said September 2026 consolidated revenue reached NT$26.358 billion (US$825.13 million), up 36.13% year over year and 27.54% from August, setting a monthly record. The PCB maker said the result reflected strong orders…

  33. TPCA Show 2026 to spotlight AI computing, Unimicron chair keynote
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    As explosive AI computing demand drives hardware architecture change, Taiwan Printed Circuit Association (TPCA) is set to open its annual flagship event, with the 21st International Microsystems, Packaging, Assembly and Circuits Technology…

  34. Unified memory lifts AI PC ambitions as Chinese open models gain local-inference ground
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    The hardware boundary separating cloud-scale AI from local inference is becoming increasingly porous as PC vendors expand memory capacity and software platforms make larger open-weight models easier to run directly on devices. Credit: AFP

  35. Semco moves glass substrates to package-level testing
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    Samsung Electro-Mechanics (Semco) has reportedly completed initial reliability testing of its 100mm glass substrates and moved to package-level verification using customer chips, marking progress toward commercializing next-generation…

  36. JNTC bets US$259 million on glass substrates ahead of 2028 ramp
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    South Korea's JNTC plans to invest KRW347 billion (approx. US$259 million) in glass substrate manufacturing as it reports a sharp reduction in copper-filling time for thick glass cores, potentially easing a major bottleneck in advanced…

  37. US plans for 'Autowarcom' deepen military's focus on autonomous weapons
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced plans for the creation of a combatant command focused on autonomous warfare and drones. Its planned establishment indicates the turn within the US military toward low-cost and AI-powered systems…

  38. SK Hynix sends memory chips into orbit for testing
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    SK Hynix's dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) and Universal Flash Storage (UFS) products have reached orbit aboard a South Korean satellite that successfully established communication with the ground following the country's fifth Nuri…

  39. Advanced packaging leads Malaysia's push up the chip value chain as AI reshapes demand, says Yole analyst
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    Malaysia is moving from traditional semiconductor back-end manufacturing toward higher value-added work, with advanced packaging set to drive growth over the next two to three years, according to Nur Hilwani, Technology & Market Analyst…

  40. China's GW satellite network clears dual-polar test, signaling broader push toward sovereign LEO communications
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    China's state-backed Guowang (GW) low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite network has completed its first communications test during the country's 16th Arctic expedition, enabling a live video call linking vessels in the Arctic with Qinling…

  41. AI headphones expose audio market's missing platform
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    As artificial intelligence (AI) moves into headphones, a problem often hidden by hardware specs is becoming clearer: the audio market has a huge installed base, but lacks a common platform to connect different brands, chips, software, and…

  42. Anthropic’s Rogue AI Filled Out U.S. Visa Forms, Gave False Homicide Tip to Police
    USThe Information

    Anthropic said Friday that is AI used the internet to inadvertently fill out government forms with incomplete information and also submitted a false homicide crime tip to the Philadelphia police department. Anthropic said police flagged…

  43. Japan turns academic success into an export industry
    JPNikkei Asia
  44. On Lombok island, a volcano climb worth every step
    JPNikkei Asia
  45. Valar Atomics Sues Its Own Investor, Day One, Over Funding Round Allocation
    USThe Information

    Nuclear reactor startup Valar Atomics says it has sued one of its early backers, Day One Ventures, in Delaware court after shutting out the venture firm from its recent $1 billion funding round. Founders rarely sue their own investors, but…