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First Windows PC powered by Nvidia chips to debut next week, Axios reports

Microsoft and Nvidia will unveil the new PCs at the Computex trade show in Taiwan and Microsoft’s Build developer conference in San Francisco

A technician at Applied Materials' facility in Santa Clara, California.

Applied Materials CTO sees potential to develop robotics ecosystem in Singapore

The company’s corporate venture capital arm finds the embodied AI space promising

HBM chips have become a critical component in AI processors used for training and deploying large language models such as ChatGPT.

Samsung takes lead in shipping top-end AI memory chip samples

The company says that it has started shipping its first 12-layer HBM4E samples to major clients

BYD is waiting for China to formalise legislation allowing more consumer-facing deployment of self-driving vehicles, which the company expects to happen as soon as 2027.

BYD debuts China’s most advanced EV chip in smart-driving push

The most advanced chip globally is the 2nm N2 node made by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

ByteDance is targeting deployment of its proprietary CPU in its own servers and data centres to support internal operations.

ByteDance developing custom CPU chips to support AI roll-out: sources

Surging chip prices, prolonged supply shortages have constrained expansion plans

Micron’s facility in Batu Kawan, in Penang state, is the giant memory chipmaker's largest in Malaysia.

Penang chipmakers cheer soaring demand even as gamers feel the pain

A global memory chip shortage has worsened since 2024 as producers pivot to feed the voracious

Hon Hai expects AI hardware to be its key growth driver this year, as the business has surpassed smartphones as the biggest contributor to sales.

AI boom fuels record US$14.5 billion in Taiwan tech firm borrowing

The borrowing volume is nearly double the US$7.5 billion the firms raised in the same period last year

Huawei’s proposed Tau Scaling Law seeks to improve performance by shortening the distance that data must travel inside a processor.

Why Huawei’s new chipmaking plan has investors buzzing

The company’s vision for improving semiconductor efficiency has sparked a rally across the sector in China

Huawei unveiled on Monday a new principle for improving chips, noting the industry can no longer rely mainly on making transistors smaller.

China’s Huawei reveals chip design breakthrough amid US sanctions

The company’s Ascend chip series has become increasingly central to powering Chinese artificial intelligence models

From left: Kyec Singapore chairman Gauss Chang; EDB managing director Jermaine Loy; and Kyec Singapore president Kenneth Seah at the facility's launch.

Taiwan semiconductor firm Kyec pumps S$100 million into new Singapore plant, creating over 300 jobs

The project is aimed at serving the ‘growing demand for automotive, high-performance AI products’