With AI compute demand surging, cloud giants are turning to in-house ASICs to reduce their reliance on NVIDIA and AMD. According to Commercial Times, Taiwan-based firms GUC and Alchip are taking the lead as design partners, while established IC design houses like MediaTek are also moving aggressive...

AI is driving demand for advanced packaging, and Taiwan-based chip packaging giant ASE, which held its earnings call on the 30th, is moving quickly to ramp up operations. According to Economic Daily News, CFO Joseph Tung said the company’s 2025 capital expenditure will increase by US$1 billion to ...

Amazon’s cloud unit AWS posted 20% sales growth in Q3, while its custom chip developments also grabbed attention during the earnings call on October 30th. According to Yahoo! Finance transcripts, CEO Andy Jassy said Trainium2 adoption remains strong, and Trainium3 is set to preview by year-end, wi...

After refreshing its AI chip roadmap with the next-gen Crescent Island data center GPU following Gaudi, Intel is reportedly eyeing its next move in AI. Bloomberg and Reuters report that the chipmaker in early talks to acquire AI chip startup SambaNova Systems, where CEO Lip-Bu Tan has served as exec...

As hyperscalers kick off their latest earnings reports today, capex is taking center stage amid AI bubble concerns. But for now, those worries may be on hold, as Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft all plan to ramp up spending significantly, CNBC reports. Among them, Alphabet—Google’s parent—stan...