Shortly after securing major chip supply deals with NVIDIA and AMD in February, Meta Platforms unveiled a roadmap for four internally developed chips through 2027. The company plans to introduce them at roughly six-month intervals, with each designed for an expected lifespan of more than five years,...

Recently, a research team led by Prof. Ouxin at the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with the team of Prof. Tobias J. Kippenberg at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Prof. Christian Koos at Karlsruhe In...

As US-China tech tensions escalate, Beijing’s controls on strategic minerals like tungsten are rattling the supply chain. Among these, tungsten hexafluoride (WF₆), made from high-purity tungsten powder and fluorine gas, spiked in early 2026, with Korean and Japanese suppliers hiking prices 70–...

China’s integrated circuit (IC) exports are accelerating sharply. According to ijiwei, citing data released by the General Administration of Customs on March 10, China’s IC exports reached 304.67 billion yuan in January and February this year, marking a 68.9% year-over-year increase. In terms of...

NVIDIA is reportedly considering reviving some of its older GPUs. According to Hankyung, industry sources say Samsung’s foundry division will resume production of NVIDIA’s RTX 3060 after a two-year halt, with the chip set to be manufactured on Samsung’s 8nm process. The report adds that Samsun...