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Semiconductors news — Monday 26 October 2026

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  1. Tokyo ward seeks 5-year ban on condo resales at redevelopment project
    JPNikkei Asia
  2. AI and oil worries rattle Asian currencies from Taiwan to Philippines
    JPNikkei Asia
  3. Japan nursery school operator Like opens in Indonesia for affluent families
    JPNikkei Asia
  4. Japan life insurers eye purchases of higher-yielding JGBs
    JPNikkei Asia
  5. DoorDash Nears Deal to Buy Instacart in $17 Billion Deal
    USThe Information

    DoorDash is in advanced talks to buy Instacart for around $17 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. A deal could be announced in the coming days, assuming it doesn’t fall apart at the last minute, some of the people said…

  6. Tunable gate electrodes could help semiconductors operate at lower voltages
    GBTechXplore Semiconductors

    Smartphones and computers process information by switching the current that flows inside semiconductors on and off. The gate electrode delivers the signal that controls this switching. Until now, gate electrodes have typically been made…

  7. OpenAI Unveils Cheaper Terra Model Amid Anthropic Pricing Battle
    USThe Information

    OpenAI on Monday unveiled the latest iteration of its GPT-6.1 model, a mid-priced version that the company said is significantly cheaper and more efficient than the version of this tier it released three months ago. According to OpenAI…

  8. Intel quietly confirms Raptor Lake Next CPUs through internal driver publication
    USTom's Hardware

    Intel has published an internal test driver with the "RPL-NEXT" label, presumably in reference to Raptor Lake Next CPUs that Tom's Hardware first reported on in June. On the same day as the driver was uncovered, shipping manifests from…

  9. Cyberattack on Japan internet provider GMO threatens customer computers
    JPNikkei Asia
  10. Printed electronics turn mattress protectors into fall-risk monitors
    GBTechXplore Semiconductors

    Australian medtech company Sleeptite and RMIT University researchers have secured a U.S. patent for smart bedding technology designed to monitor residents' well-being in health care settings and identify fall risk so caregivers can…

  11. Anthropic’s S-1 Takeaways: From Giant Compute Commitments to Complex Lock-Ups
    USThe Information

    Anthropic publicly filed a preliminary prospectus for its planning initial public offering, providing a look inside its business for the first half of this year, as well as new details about its governance and more than 90 pages of risk…

  12. ASRock Creator Radeon AI Pro R9700 Review: Workstation Inference, AMD Style
    USServeTheHome

    Today we are taking a look at ASRock's high-end Radeon AI inference card for workstations, the Creator Radeon AI Pro R9700. With 32GB of RAM and a $1700 price tag, the card is a highly affordable way to fill out a workstation for local AI…

  13. IEEE Xplore Digital Library Adds AI Assistant
    USIEEE Spectrum

    IEEE recently released the IEEE Xplore AI Research Suite , built on the full text of millions of peer-reviewed publications in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library . The library offers full-text access to IEEE standards , journals, magazines…

  14. Japan weighs foreign agent registry for lobbyists to curb interference
    JPNikkei Asia
  15. Japan's Sakana AI to build homegrown model to cut US, China reliance
    JPNikkei Asia
  16. Accellera’s FSL 1.0 Gives Functional Safety Data a Common Language
    USSemiWiki

    Accellera Systems Initiative has approved Functional Safety Language Standard 1.0 for release, addressing a persistent challenge in semiconductor development: moving safety information reliably between tools, engineering teams, and…

  17. Automakers Reconsider In-Cabin Sensing for Euro NCAP Ratings
    USEE Times

    BARCELONA, Spain — Automakers are exploring more integrated in-cabin sensing architectures, combining cameras and radars to monitor drivers and passengers. The trend comes as European safety assessments

  18. JSAUX FlipGo dual-screen portable monitor review: Gorgeous displays with touch support and a built-in USB hub
    USTom's Hardware

    The FlipGo is yet another entry into the portable dual-monitor field from JSAUX (the previous one being the more ambitious FlipGo Horizon Pro ), and it definitely makes a good first impression. Not only do you get two 16-inch 2560 x 1600…

  19. Japan to team with Germany on fusion energy project, including power plant
    JPNikkei Asia
  20. SpaceX Agrees to Pay $40 Billion to Lease Chips from Apollo
    USThe Information

    SpaceX has agreed to pay $40 billion to lease artificial intelligence chips from an entity affiliated with Apollo Global Management. The arrangement will see Apollo sell debt to buy the chips, and then lease them to SpaceX, giving the…

  21. Microsoft Offers Buyouts to 60,000 Employees
    USThe Information

    Microsoft said Monday it is offering voluntary buyouts to about 27% of its staff, as the company aims to reduce expenses amid its investments in developing and running AI. The buyout offers represent one of the largest potential staff…

  22. Save $134 on this WD Red Plus 10TB HDD bundle at Newegg
    USTom's Hardware

    Whether you've had a NAS drive for a while, or you're looking at setting one up, the most important thing is making sure you have plenty of storage capacity. So, if you're looking to replace or boost your current storage drives, then this…

  23. Australian insurer Challenger rejects Daiichi Life unit's takeover bid
    JPNikkei Asia
  24. Japan to back perovskite solar cell mass production with $640m in subsidies
    JPNikkei Asia
  25. Inside the Package Powering Modern AI
    USSemiWiki

    TSMC’s CoWoS-S is critical to the artificial intelligence era because it solves the central systems problem facing modern accelerators: computing capability is growing faster than conventional packages can supply data, power, and…

  26. Asus ROG Xbox Ally X20 tested: Same performance, more comfortable, and a glorious OLED screen
    USTom's Hardware

    For Asus ROG's 20th birthday, the company released a slew of computer parts (enough for a supremely expensive build ). But it's not overlooking its more recent entry into gaming handhelds, with the new Asus ROG Xbox Ally X20, a revamped…

  27. 3.2 Pb/s real-time optical fiber transfer speed world record claimed by Chinese team
    USTom's Hardware

    A Chinese team has claimed a new world record for real-time transfer speeds across 24-core optical fiber cable. The collaboration between the National Key Laboratory of Optical Communication Technology, and Network of China Information and…

  28. Leaked 256-core Zen 6c EPYC CPU destroys Zen 5 in early single-threaded benchmarks hints at 24% IPC gain
    USTom's Hardware

    AMD's Zen 6 processors are out! Well, the EPYC 9006 family of server CPUs is out, anyway. These aren't chips that mere mortals like you and I can reasonably acquire, so there aren't really many third-party benchmarks out there yet, but…

  29. Goldman Sachs to Lead Anthropic IPO
    USThe Information

    Goldman Sachs has officially won the lead left role on Anthropic’s IPO, putting it in the top position again after the bank won the top job for SpaceX. Morgan Stanley is named stabilization agent for the IPO, a coveted role overseeing the…

  30. The Argument in Favor of Tranched Rounds
    USThe Information

    Before we get to today’s column, the big day is here: Anthropic dropped its long-awaited public S-1 filing Monday morning . Tune in today for stories from my colleagues and me that will be breaking down the most important takeaways from…

  31. Micron plans to use wafer bonding and High-NA EUV for next-gen DRAM
    USTom's Hardware

    Having jettisoned 4F 2 memory cells from its roadmap , Micron must use different methods to continue scaling its DRAM devices in the coming years to keep up with rivals planning to use smaller DRAM transistors towards the end of the…

  32. Anthropic Publicly Files S-1 for Its Planned IPO
    USThe Information

    Anthropic publicly filed a preliminary prospectus for its planning initial public offering, providing a look inside its business for the first half of this year as well as new details about its governance and more than 90 pages of risk…

  33. Windows 11’s ‘whole ISO’ squeezed into a CD-ROM
    USTom's Hardware

    Professional Windows crusher NTDEV has showcased their next-generation tool for compressing Windows 11 into the tiniest of tiny installs. Based on their newest and unreleased Pico11, they managed to create a “proof of concept I put…

  34. Cadence reveals Maestro, fine-tuned AI models built to run specialized chip design agents, with early access coming for 'select customers' in Q4 2026
    USTom's Hardware

    Cadence, one of the largest electronic design automation (EDA) companies, has unveiled Maestro, its new portfolio of domain-specialized AI models tailored for its chip design agents, in a press release sent just ahead of earnings. In…

  35. Meta Plans to Raise Up To $95 Billion for AI Through Equity Sales
    USThe Information

    Meta Platforms announced plans to seek as much as $95 billion of capital through equity sales, adding to already huge fundraising plans by AI companies to fuel the data center boom. The plans include about $35 billion of underwritten…

  36. Stripe’s AI Shopping Lead Puts Card Giants on Edge
    USThe Information

    As AI assistants like Instinct and Meta Platforms’ Muse start to gain traction in shopping, Stripe has taken a leading position in how the agents pay. That’s putting the credit card giants on edge. The reason for their apprehension: Stripe…

  37. SEMICON West 2026: After the Toast, the Hard Questions
    USSemiWiki

    Champagne is an unusual opening act for a semiconductor conference. At SEMICON West 2026, October 13 to 15, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, it served a purpose. The toast marked an industry that has already crossed $1 trillion in…

  38. Build a Hidden Lock With a Magnetic Imager
    USIEEE Spectrum

    Like many a nerd, I have a certain fascination with locks. This originates in reading the memoir Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman as a teenager, in which Richard Feynman recounts picking locks and cracking combinations while at his day…

  39. Framing the Shift to 48V
    USEE Times

    The move from traditional 12V electrical systems to 48V architectures is reshaping the way vehicles are built, powered and driven. More than this, it is the key to unlocking the vision for next generation

  40. The AI Packaging Challenge: 5 Reasons Panels Are Gaining Momentum
    USEE Times

    As AI pushes chip packages beyond traditional wafer limits, panel-level processing is emerging as a critical path to scale advanced packaging for the next decade of compute. Lam Research is helping make

  41. Chinese research vessels loiter near Pacific undersea cables more than any other nation, report finds
    USTom's Hardware

    China is spending more time loitering near undersea cables in the Pacific Ocean than any other nation, according to a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies , a U.S.-based think tank in Washington, DC. The analysis…

  42. Intel explores potential collaboration with AMD as Lip-Bu Tan pushes customer-focused turnaround
    USTom's Hardware

    Intel and AMD have spent decades competing for the processors inside PCs and data centers, but the rivalry hasn't stopped the two companies from working together when their interests align. And now, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has reportedly…

  43. Save over $1,000 on this Alienware gaming PC with an RTX 5070 and 32GB DDR5
    USTom's Hardware

    AI has forced PC component prices up with no slowdown in sight over the last year. While building your own might be expensive, pre-built gaming PCs continue to offer the best value in many cases. With that in mind, you could secure a huge…

  44. Lack of staff and funding likely led to the recent PHP security snafu; project has only one full-time employee, but that's just the tip of the iceberg
    USTom's Hardware

    The AI-powered inrush of software vulnerability reports over the last year has shined a light on how many critical pieces of open-source software are chronically underfunded . The latest victim is PHP, the scripting language powering about…

  45. Modder turns NES into a Windows-like desktop with original hardware
    USTom's Hardware

    YouTube retro gaming experiment channel Throaty Mumbo created a Windows-like desktop environment on the NES. The project took advantage of the EverDrive N8 Pro, an FPGA-powered NES cartridge that handles the heavy x86 emulation. Throaty…

  46. Nvidia RTX 20, 30, and 40-series GPUs hacked to remove a half-speed AI throttle
    USTom's Hardware

    Modders have discovered a way to remove imposed half-speed AI performance limits on Nvidia RTX 20, 30, and 40-series GPUs with a firmware exploit, VideoCardz reports. Without the limitation, the RTX 4090 can achieve double its peak tensor…

  47. Bitcoin reward offered to anyone who could break into an unpatched server running PHP, hacker cracks site and claims bounty
    USTom's Hardware

    A hacker has successfully breached a vulnerable server, claiming a prize pot worth $2,021.22 in Bitcoin after exploiting PHP2Shell vulnerabilities, a posting on the Steal My Bitcoin website has shown. The challenge's creator confirmed the…

  48. Reddit’s r/opensource bans AI-made and AI-focused projects, also bans non-English speakers
    USTom's Hardware

    Reddit communities are increasingly tightening their rules around artificial intelligence, with some restricting AI-generated submissions and others limiting discussions about the technology. The latest crackdown comes from Reddit’s…

  49. Denmark’s bid to ditch Microsoft Office for open-source alternative Collabora collapses in under six months
    USTom's Hardware

    Denmark’s Ministry of Digitization, which has since been merged with other ministries and is now called the Ministry for Research, Education, and Digitization, has reportedly ended its experiment to replace Microsoft Office with an…

  50. In Orbit, Useful Life Becomes a Performance Metric
    USEE Times

    On Oct. 1, 2026, Google’s Project Suncatcher prototype reached orbit aboard a SpaceX mission. Developed with Planet, the satellite established contact with the ground. Its task is to test how commercial

  51. For India's IT giants TCS and Infosys, AI both dents and supports growth
    JPNikkei Asia
  52. Black Sea attacks cut Ukraine wheat exports to Indonesia, Bangladesh
    JPNikkei Asia
  53. Japan's Subaru to go EV-only in Europe by 2028
    JPNikkei Asia
  54. Vertical DRAM Stacking Expands Thermal Design Space Beyond HBM-on-GPU (imec)
    USSemiconductor Engineering

    Researchers at imec published “Beyond HBM-on-GPU: Thermal Design Envelope for 3D Volumetric DRAM-on-GPU Integration.” Summary : Researchers evaluated a 3D memory architecture that rotates DRAM dies vertically above a GPU and places cooling…

  55. Large-Format Masks Move From Aspiration To Industry Roadmap
    USSemiconductor Engineering

    The eBeam Initiative conducted its 15th annual Luminaries survey in July and reported the results on September 9, 2026, at its annual reception during the SPIE Photomask Technology + EUV Lithography Conference. 85 luminaries representing…

  56. Testing Silicon Photonics At Scale
    USSemiconductor Engineering

    Artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) are driving unprecedented demand for data movement. As bandwidth requirements climb and conventional electrical interconnects encounter limitations in power consumption…

  57. Bringing Down Test Costs For Co-Packaged Optics
    USSemiconductor Engineering

    Key Takeaways: For FA, engineers need to identify boundaries and be able to decouple individual components to identify the root cause of problems. Underperforming lasers are a substantial issue, making the “golden reference” a hot topic in…

  58. Self-Heating And Parasitics Challenge Multi-Tier CFET Scaling (TU Munich, IIT Kanpur)
    USSemiconductor Engineering

    Researchers at the Technical University of Munich and Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur published “Self-Heating and Parasitic Effects in Multi-Tier CFET Design.” Abstract Excerpt : “We study the impact of self-heating effects (SHEs)…

  59. Former Japan Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda dies at 90
    JPNikkei Asia
  60. Why is Japan tightening its immigration rules?
    JPNikkei Asia
  61. MERA: A Mid-Circuit-Measurement Error-Aware Compilation Framework for Quantum Circuits
    USarXiv cs.AR (Architecture)

    arXiv:2511.10921v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mid-circuit measurement (MCM) enables qubit reuse and dynamic control in quantum processors, underpinning resource-efficient algorithms and quantum error correction. However, MCM…

  62. Decode Late, Multiply Once: Rethinking the Dot Product for Quantized Weights
    USarXiv cs.AR (Architecture)

    arXiv:2610.31913v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large neural networks are increasingly deployed with 1-4 bit weights and 16- or 32-bit activations, yet their dot products still use one multiplier per element. We show that a length-n dot…

  63. HAWK: Heterogeneity-Aware KV Cache Transfer for Efficient GPU-NPU Phase-Disaggregated LLM Inference
    USarXiv cs.AR (Architecture)

    arXiv:2610.29873v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language model (LLM) inference exhibits distinct computational characteristics across its two phases: prefill is compute-intensive, whereas decode is more memory-bound. As a result…

  64. A Resource-Efficient and Precision-Scalable FPGA Accelerator for Spiking Neural Networks Using Minifloat Arithmetic
    USarXiv cs.AR (Architecture)

    arXiv:2610.32052v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are well suited to event-driven edge intelligence, but the arithmetic complexity, memory footprint, and power consumption associated with conventional…

  65. Automated Multi-Line Bug Repair Using Model Checker Aided LLMs: A Case Study on RISC-V Processors
    USarXiv cs.AR (Architecture)

    arXiv:2610.32597v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Functional verification of Register-Transfer Level(RTL) designs has become a critical bottleneck in modern semiconductor development, often consuming the majority of project resources…

  66. PARIS: Parallel Arithmetic Reduction and Integrated Selection for MSDF Inner Products
    USarXiv cs.AR (Architecture)

    arXiv:2610.32410v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing most-significant-digit-first (MSDF) accelerators serialize input-term processing, causing inner-product latency to increase with fan-in. This paper presents PARIS, an MSDF…

  67. TranSAGE: Automating Spatial Accelerator Generation for Large-Scale Transformer Models
    USarXiv cs.AR (Architecture)

    arXiv:2610.32279v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale Transformers have achieved remarkable success across NLP, computer vision, and robotics, but their growing computational and memory demands challenge efficient inference. Spatial…

  68. Embodied Emissions of 2.5D and 3D Scaling in Chipletized GPUs for Low-Carbon AI
    USarXiv cs.AR (Architecture)

    arXiv:2610.32830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: GPU compute resources are scaling to support growing AI workloads, leading to further rises in the climate change impact of hyperscale data centers that rely on high-performance GPUs. To…

  69. Toward Open ISA Supercomputing: A Comparative Study of RISC-V, Arm, and x86 Architectures on HPC Workloads
    USarXiv cs.AR (Architecture)

    arXiv:2610.32632v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: RISC-V is emerging as a candidate architecture for high-performance computing (HPC), but its competitiveness against established x86 and Arm processors remains difficult to assess because…

  70. Macao casinos chip in $1.1bn to back city's economic diversification
    JPNikkei Asia
  71. Vietnam province tries no-visa tourism to lure Chinese to Nha Trang beaches
    JPNikkei Asia
  72. Interview: From afterthought to bottleneck, circuit boards move to the heart of AI hardware
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    In the era of AI and high-performance computing (HPC), the once-separate worlds of chip design, packaging, and circuit boards are converging. According to the Global Electronics Association, AI server motherboards have become the largest…

  73. Meta prioritizes high-margin AI inference as Wiwynn, Quanta eye CPU server demand
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    Meta has become the first of the four major US hyperscale cloud providers to report its latest earnings, with supply chain players closely monitoring changes in the company's capital expenditure plans and investment priorities. Credit…

  74. Taiwan wafer-testing supplier Hermes Testing Solutions commits more than US$215 million to advanced chip testing expansion
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    Hermes Testing Solutions Inc. (HTSI), a semiconductor wafer-testing solutions provider, is expanding its Taiwan operations. Its board approved budget authorisations on October 22 for a new R&D centre in Hsinchu and a manufacturing centre…

  75. Podcast highlights: TSMC's 3nm demand story, Samsung HBM shift, and A14 ramp
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    Following TSMC's third-quarter 2026 earnings call, DIGITIMES analyst Luke Lin provided in a podcast additional analysis of several details that received limited attention in market coverage, including a new 3nm fab at the Southern Taiwan…

  76. India roundup: India's tech build-out opens new markets, but foreign suppliers are first in line
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    India's tech push opens markets unevenly: foreign suppliers get first crack at Tata's fab, Lam courts local vendors, Jio's IPO tests its 5G pitch, and CleanMax powers AI data centers. Credit: AFP

  77. Sumitomo aims to expand battery energy storage in Japan with UK experience
    JPNikkei Asia
  78. India's chip design startups struggle with final commercial hurdle
    JPNikkei Asia
  79. Xi Jinping poised to tighten grip at discipline-focused fifth plenum
    JPNikkei Asia
  80. Singapore-linked data center projects face growing rejection in Indonesia
    JPNikkei Asia