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Semiconductors news — Sunday 01 November 2026

64 stories from 8 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.

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  1. Binance Allows Customers to Resume Withdrawals, Sees $5.8 Billion Net Outflow
    USThe Information

    Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, saw $5.8 billion in net outflow of assets after it resumed processing withdrawals for users on Sunday morning following a historic $6.3 billion hack. The net outflow figure, tracked by crypto…

  2. Trump Administration Refuses to Release Information on AI Testing Framework
    USThe Information

    The Trump administration declined to produce key documents related to its voluntary AI testing framework, despite an agreement struck in September with the nonprofit Protect Democracy Project after a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. In…

  3. Apple, Uber and Elections Headline Week
    USThe Information

    Can Apple, Uber and Palantir turn this stock market around? It sure needs it. Worries about excessive AI spending tanked Google’s stock last week and sent the Nasdaq Composite to its worst month since March 2025. While the major indexes…

  4. Column: Samsung's memory boom reshapes its investment strategy
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    Samsung Electronics has never had more capital at its disposal. The company reported operating profit of KRW89.5 trillion (approx. US$67 billion) in the second quarter of 2026 and KRW107.4 trillion in the third, when its operating margin…

  5. The Information’s WTF Summit in Pictures
    USThe Information

    At The Information’s annual WTF Summit a few days ago, women leaders from Anthropic, Google, Goldman Sachs and dozens of other companies across technology and media gathered to discuss the forces remaking those industries. Conversation…

  6. India roundup: India accelerates semiconductor push as states, chipmakers and equipment suppliers expand investment
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    India's semiconductor ambitions are gathering momentum as states launch new subsidies, chipmakers weigh fabs, global suppliers consider manufacturing, and engineering partnerships deepen the country's role in chip supply chains. Credit: AFP

  7. Japan is attracting startups. But can it keep them?
    JPNikkei Asia
  8. Indonesian political maneuvers hinder market reforms amid downgrade threats
    JPNikkei Asia
  9. Chinese Communist Party taps big data surveillance to combat corruption
    JPNikkei Asia
  10. New AI-driven Windows malware feeds stolen data to Claude to rank victims’ assets by value, then deletes itself — payload builds custom target assessment, can switch models if one refuses, or skip the AI step entirely
    USTom's Hardware

    A self-deleting Windows infostealer that calls itself VOLTA-AUTODOXER steals everything it can from a victim’s PC, then asks an AI model, Anthropic’s Claude by default, to turn the haul into a target assessment, Cisco’s Talos research…

  11. NearLink looks to chip vendors to expand beyond Huawei ecosystem
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    China's next-generation short-range wireless connectivity technology, NearLink, is actively pushing into markets beyond the Huawei ecosystem. Securing support from major chip vendors such as MediaTek, STMicroelectronics (ST), and NXP will…

  12. Lite-On reports record third-quarter profit as AI revenue exceeds 30%
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    Lite-On Technology reported record net profit for the third quarter of 2026 as demand for AI infrastructure boosted its cloud and power businesses. The Taiwanese electronics supplier posted consolidated revenue of NT$57.4 billion (US$1.8…

  13. GigaDevice's massive financial growth in 2026 capitalizing on its A+H listing, memory surge
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    GigaDevice's financial performance through the first three quarters of 2026 highlights a transformative period driven by strategic market positioning, capital expansion, and robust product demand. Credit: GigaDevice

  14. CEO Interview with Vera Yang of Flexcompute
    USSemiWiki

    Vera Yang is President and Co-Founder of Flexcompute, a frontier AI lab building a Physics World Model that bridges data-driven AI and the laws of physics. She focuses on the problems where the stakes are highest and the physics hardest…

  15. GOG explores reviving physical PC game releases — digital storefront needs publisher approvals, has to figure out the logistics and legal challenges
    USTom's Hardware

    The popular DRM-free game storefront GOG’s business development and partnerships manager, Marcin Paczynski, said in an interview with GamesRadar+ that he wants to bring back physical media to PC gaming. GOG still has to deal with logistics…

  16. Nvidia's Korea robotics push gains ground as LG starts data factory operations
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    Nvidia's robotics partnerships in South Korea are moving beyond initial agreements, with LG Electronics beginning partial operations at its robot-training Data Factory and LG Innotek expanding cooperation on sensing technologies. Hyundai…

  17. Humanoid robots, robotaxis take center stage at Korea's FIX 2026
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    South Korean companies showcased humanoid robot components, dual-arm machines, and autonomous driving systems at FIX 2026 in Daegu, offering a look at how developers are bringing automation into factories and transportation. The…

  18. Snag a Nintendo Switch 2 for only $469 while stock lasts — $30 off a system that's not often on sale
    USTom's Hardware

    Heads up, gamers on the go everywhere. The ever-beloved Nintendo Switch 2 portable console is on sale right this second at Woot. Much like with anything in computing, the console got a $50 price hike to $499 only a couple of months ago…

  19. High-NA’s Obituary Was Premature
    USSemiWiki

    High numerical aperture EUV lithography was supposed to be the next step in semiconductor manufacturing. Then came the doubts: expensive scanners, smaller exposure fields, difficult economics and big customers finding ways to stretch…

  20. Mitsubishi Heavy gears up to boost US gas turbine production
    JPNikkei Asia
  21. Nuclear reactors under construction rise to 79 globally on AI demand
    JPNikkei Asia
  22. Nytex targets 35% of sales from high-end materials by 2027
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    Nytex Composites, a Taiwan-based specialty plastics compounder, aims to increase high-end materials' share of revenue to 35% in 2027, up from 25.76% in the first half of 2026, as demand grows for materials used in semiconductor wafer…

  23. Seoul Viosys begins mass production of rare earth-free white micro LEDs
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    A South Korean company says it has begun mass-producing white-light micro LED chips without rare earth materials, potentially reducing costs and environmental concerns in a market valued at about US$10 billion. The technology could also…

  24. CEO Interview with Andrew Seddon of CircuitHub
    USSemiWiki

    Andrew Seddon is a British engineer and the co-founder and CEO of CircuitHub. His product design background spans industrial equipment, medical devices and special effects equipment, including work on a motion-capture headset for A…

  25. Google Energy Chief: Space Data Centers Cost Up to 100 Times More Than Those on Earth
    USThe Information

    Data centers in space could cost up to 100 times as much as those on Earth, Google's head of data center energy said this week, a reality check from a company that itself is testing AI server chips in orbit. “Let’s explore all the…

  26. Analysis: Samsung's own memory unit pushes its foundry toward a 2027 capacity crunch
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    Samsung Electronics' contract chipmaking business spent years struggling to fill its factories. On its third-quarter earnings call, the company said that by 2027, demand will exceed capacity across all its nodes below 8nm, which it expects…

  27. Candidates Backing Data Center Pauses Could Win in Up to 15 Governor’s Races
    USThe Information

    As data centers have gone from obscurity to the top of voters’ minds, midterm candidates are taking a stance on the issue. The fight is most heated in races for governor, the office that has shown the most power to limit data centers on a…

  28. The Compass: Finding Tomorrow in the Minds of Yesterday
    USSemiWiki

    What makes a breakthrough possible? Intelligence, certainly, but also curiosity, persistence and the courage to follow an idea before anyone can see where it leads. Sunil Mehta’s novel The Compass builds its premise around this question…

  29. Walmart honors massive shelf price mistake, lucky buyer gets two $2,299 CyberPowerPC gaming rigs for $1,099 each
    USTom's Hardware

    One shopper got the deal of a lifetime after they secured two CyberPowerPC units at more than 50% off. u/joker497 shared the find on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit , with Walmart putting two units of the Supreme Gaming Desktop for just…

  30. The 20% problem: why Taiwan's imported equipment parts still carry 70% of the cost
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    Taiwan can manufacture some of the world's most advanced chips, package them into increasingly complex AI systems, and connect much of the surrounding electronics supply chain within a remarkably small geographic footprint. Hermes GM Chen…

  31. TWM's BNPL users rise 49.9% as Taiwan targets gig-worker demand
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    Taiwan Mobile (TWM) said its buy now, pay later (BNPL) service is expanding beyond e-commerce checkout to travel, pet care, and other consumer scenarios, driven by the growth of atypical employment and rising demand for flexible payments…

  32. Brazilian lawyers busted for attempting to manipulate court's AI with prompt injection hidden in filing
    USTom's Hardware

    A Brazilian labor court fined two lawyers after it discovered that their latest filing contained hidden text that attempted to influence its AI tool. Prof. Vladimir Aras of the University of Brazil (UnB) shared the court’s ruling on X…

  33. CEO Interview with Peter Jenkins of Infinitesima
    USSemiWiki

    As CEO, Peter Jenkins, leads the development and commercialisation of angstrom-scale process control technology, helping semiconductor manufacturers gain deeper process insights, improve yields and enable the next generation of advanced…

  34. Biwin M560 2TB SSD Review: The DRAM-less drive to beat
    USTom's Hardware

    We’re back with another drive from Biwin, which has been putting out some good SSDs with minor exceptions. This one uses hardware we’ve wanted to test in retail for quite some time: the SMI SM2504XT SSD controller, which is hard to find…

  35. Anycubic and Thingiverse announce exclusive 3D printing partnership
    USTom's Hardware

    Anycubic has announced an exclusive partnership with Thingiverse, the world’s oldest and largest repository of free STL models for 3D printing. The move comes roughly eight months after Thingiverse was purchased from UltiMaker by…

  36. Bambu Lab's Black Friday sale cuts up to $300 on the flagship H2C printer and more
    USTom's Hardware

    Bambu Lab has arrived early for the Black Friday sales extravaganza. The big sales event doesn't hit retailers until late next month during the Thanksgiving Holidays, but Bambu Lab is striking out in front of the chaos by starting its…

  37. Sam Altman meets with Samsung leadership to secure more RAM for data centers amid crushing shortages
    USTom's Hardware

    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has met with about 50 senior Samsung executives in South Korea, as the company seeks to expand its Artificial Intelligence and memory capacity, Bloomberg reports. Altman’s visit to South Korea follows his recent…

  38. Tesla at a historic crossroads as Musk bets on AI, space to revive growth
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    From the spectacular flying demonstration of its next-generation Roadster to the prospect of a merger with SpaceX, Tesla appears to be approaching a historic strategic turning point. Credit: AFP

  39. Foxconn expands AI deployment with smart manufacturing across sites worldwide
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    As part of its efforts to harness AI for tangible benefits, Foxconn is integrating AI models, computing infrastructure, factory management, and automation equipment to build a model for smart manufacturing that can be replicated across…

  40. CEO Interview with Ram Machness of Arbe
    USSemiWiki

    Ram Machness is the Chief Executive Officer at Arbe, a global leader in high-definition radar solutions for autonomous vehicles. He has three decades of experience in the semiconductor and automotive industries. In his previous role at…

  41. Guarding the Gates of Knowledge
    USIEEE Spectrum

    A recent scroll through social media got me thinking about trust. About half my feed was filled with AI slop that astute users would call out as being machine-generated, often to the embarrassment of the rube who unknowingly spread it and…

  42. How Small Electronics Manufacturers Prevent Component Shortages
    USEE Times

    These case studies show how electronics manufacturers have reduced material shortages by improving inventory accuracy, connecting purchasing to production demand, and using bills of materials to plan

  43. Designing for the Long Haul: Building Obsolescence-Resilient Product Lifecycles
    USEE Times

    Artificial intelligence is reshaping the semiconductor industry, and the effects reach well beyond the data center. As memory manufacturers prioritize capacity and investment for AI-driven products, some

  44. Open-source USB tool unlocks Nvidia's half-speed GPU AI limiter on Windows
    USTom's Hardware

    A new open-source UEFI tool boots from USB and unlocks significant extra tensor performance on RTX 20, 30, and 40-series desktop and laptop GPUs, making the half-speed AI throttle hack a whole lot easier to try on Windows. No VBIOS flash…

  45. Police Chief physically unplugs Flock cameras after the company ignores contract cancellation
    USTom's Hardware

    Plymouth City Council unanimously voted to end its Flock contract in September 2026, but the company failed to respond to demands to remove its cameras installed around the city. According to The Drive , the city informed Flock immediately…

  46. Elon Musk says Neuralink is ready to cure blindness — says Blindsight will ‘enable even those who are completely blind or have never seen to see’
    USTom's Hardware

    Elon Musk’s Neuralink has been pushing advancements in the brain-computer interface (BCI) space, with patients now able to play World of Warcraft through a Neuralink brain implant . However, the billionaire founder gave a recent update on…

  47. Interview: Pactum sees AI as a cybersecurity boon despite public fear
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    High-profile breaches caused by AI agents from frontier labs are leading to public alarm over what AI means for the future of cybersecurity. However, Taivo Pungas, chief intelligence officer of agentic procurement platform Pactum, said…

  48. The pioneer behind TSMC's FinFET leap: a personal look at Chenming Hu
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    In 2008, I accompanied a graduate student delegation sponsored by Applied Materials to visit the University of California, Berkeley. The trip was arranged with hopes of meeting Dr. Chenming Hu, but he was away from his laboratory that day…

  49. Six decades in the making: Why the world can't easily copy Taiwan's chip ecosystem
    TWDigiTimes Daily

    Taiwan's semiconductor strength is often described today through leading-edge process nodes, advanced packaging capacity, or its pivotal role in the global AI supply chain. At the Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association's (TSIA) 30th…

  50. Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB drive is just an unencrypted SD card in a fancy case
    USTom's Hardware

    Security researcher Xusheng Li found that a Lenovo ThinkPlus FU100 fingerprint USB stick, sold as an AES-256-encrypted device for data security, ended up being just a plain SD card internally, HackingPassion reports. The fingerprint reader…

  51. AI agent swarms unleashed in Minecraft to ‘build a thriving civilization’
    USTom's Hardware

    AI researchers at ycombinator and Olam Labs recently tested AI agent swarms in gaming scenarios. Minecraft and its various game modes were the sandboxes where 100s of agents were unleashed to work together or as adversaries. The idea seems…

  52. California county deploys autonomous firefighting drones with 500-gallon foam payload to attack wildfires
    USTom's Hardware

    The San Bernardino County Fire Protection District has just acquired a fleet of five autonomous drones that will allow it to battle wildfires before they become worse. According to a press release (via PR Newswire ), the drones will be…

  53. Voyager 1 probe to hit historic one light-day distance from Earth in 17 days — 49-year-old spacecraft travels 16 billion miles
    USTom's Hardware

    The Voyager 1 spacecraft, which was designed for a five-year mission to observe Jupiter and Saturn, is about to reach a distance of one light-day from Earth after nearly 50 years in flight. According to NASA , the space probe will get to…

  54. USAF successfully tests dropping SpaceX Starfall cargo drop pods from space
    USTom's Hardware

    The Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), the research and development arm of the US Air Force, has successfully tested Rocket Cargo capabilities, which would allow military units to resupply via cargo pods dropped from space. According to the…

  55. College student unofficially breaks world record for fastest jet-powered drone with 491 mph aircraft built in his dorm — Reaper aims to grab the $800,000 Boom Prize
    USTom's Hardware

    A new 'Reaper' jet-powered drone project just unofficially broke the previous drone speed world record of 465 mph by hitting 491 mph. Tomas Salvo is an aerospace engineering student at Georgia Tech, and his project was assembled in his…

  56. AI dubbing to help Japanese companies expand global outreach
    JPNikkei Asia
  57. Indonesia GDP, US midterm elections, Hong Kong financial summit
    JPNikkei Asia
  58. Pakistan refineries report 1,860% jump in profit amid war windfall
    JPNikkei Asia
  59. After US midterms, democracy will face test of ability to self-correct
    JPNikkei Asia
  60. Thai reformists became too technocratic, party ex-leader Pita says
    JPNikkei Asia
  61. NVIDIA Updates Rubin GPU Specs as First Production Hardware Arrives
    USServeTheHome

    As production hardware starts shipping, NVIDIA has updated some of the specifications for its Rubin GPU platforms The post NVIDIA Updates Rubin GPU Specs as First Production Hardware Arrives appeared first on ServeTheHome .

  62. On India's east coast, tidepooling inspires marine conservation
    JPNikkei Asia
  63. Japan bamboo chopsticks catch on in South Korea
    JPNikkei Asia
  64. China mega complex in Dalian puts spotlight on investment push
    JPNikkei Asia