semiconductors
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Alibaba unveiled its Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator and a roadmap targeting more than 20 GW of global data-center capacity by 2032.
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Marvell is demonstrating 2 nm 400G-per-lane PAM4, 800G ZR/ZR+ with MACsec, 1.6T coherent optics and a 102.4 Tbps CPO platform for AI data centers.
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SK hynix is expanding its AI-memory roadmap with HBF, PIM/AiMX, SALT-KV and enterprise SSD technologies aimed at AI data movement bottlenecks.
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Synopsys and TSMC expand A14 and 2nm chip-design collaboration across agentic AI EDA, CoWoS, HBM4, PCIe 7.0, UCIe, 224G Ethernet and co-packaged optics.
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Qualcomm has introduced two new flagship smartphone processors, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, putting a 5 GHz Oryon CPU and expanded on-device AI at the center of its next Android hardware generation. The chips were unveiled at Snapdragon Summit 2026. Qualcomm says both are manufactured on a…
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Cadence’s new ChipStack RTL Generation Agent turns natural-language specifications into optimized RTL and is being evaluated by Honda for automotive SoCs.
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Singapore has launched SG Semiconductor, a national identity for a chip ecosystem that already produces about 10% of the world’s semiconductors and 20% of semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
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SK Hynix’s Solidigm is considering a 2027 IPO that could value the enterprise SSD and NAND storage company at up to $150 billion, Reuters reports.
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Taiwan has broken ground on Kaohsiung’s Baipu Industrial Park, where TSMC plans an advanced packaging validation laboratory and semiconductor training center.
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Tower Semiconductor and NewPhotonics are shipping 800G-to-1.6T silicon-photonics optical engines for AI data centers, with 6.4T near-packaged optics planned for volume shipment in the first half of 2027.
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Marvell is demonstrating next-generation Ethernet and optical networking technology designed to move AI data centers toward 3.2-terabit-per-second (Tbps) optical links. The important distinction is the physical connection. These are not 3.2T Cat6-style copper cables. Marvell’s 400G-per-lane PAM4 technology provides a path toward 3.2T optical Ethernet interfaces carried over fiber. Very short data-center links can still…
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SK Hynix subsidiary Solidigm is considering building a U.S. NAND flash memory factory, with upstate New York emerging as a leading candidate, according to Reuters. The potential factory comes as enormous investment in AI data centers tightens global memory supplies. NAND provides the persistent storage used throughout servers, computers and data-center storage systems, making memory…
