Amid China’s push for chip self-sufficiency, another domestic GPU player is stepping into the spotlight with bold ambitions. According to ijiwei and Mydrivers, Illuvatar CoreX on January 26 unveiled its fourth-generation GPU roadmap, laying out an aggressive plan to surpass NVIDIA’s Rubin archit...

Samsung Electronics and SK hynix may be lifting LPDDR prices for iPhones. According to ZDNet, industry sources said the two companies have negotiated significant price hikes for LPDDR supplied to Apple in the first quarter. Samsung Electronics is said to have pushed for a quarter-on-quarter increase...

Microsoft unveiled its latest in-house AI chip, Maia 200, marking a further push into custom silicon for data-center AI workloads. According to the company’s press release, the chip is fabricated on TSMC’s 3nm process and features native FP8 and FP4 tensor cores designed to enhance performance a...

Mature-node foundries may be poised for a new wave of price hikes. According to Commercial Times, the expansion of AI applications is driving rapid growth in demand for power management components, with industry sources suggesting that mature-node pricing could rebound. Among mature-node foundrie...

As global memory demand outstrips supply, memory giants are racing to expand—Micron among the most aggressive as 2026 kicks off. According to Reuters, the U.S. chipmaker is set to announce a new investment in Singapore to boost memory chip production, with at least part targeting NAND flash—a ra...