MediaTek has unveiled the Dimensity 9500s and Dimensity 8500, targeting the upper-midrange smartphone market. According to ijiwei, the Dimensity 9500s represents an expansion of the Dimensity 9000 series lineup. It is built on TSMC’s 3nm process and continues MediaTek’s all-big-core CPU architec...

As Google intensifies its push for Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), aiming to secure more orders from major tech players, the company’s R&D efforts are clearly bearing fruit. Nikkei reports that the company has sharply increased patent filings for AI data-center semiconductors, with application...

With markets staying muted over the Christmas holiday, NVIDIA made an unexpected move, agreeing to spend about $20 billion in cash to license Groq’s LPU (Language Processing Unit) technology. As highlighted by the Commercial Times, the deal signals that the AI chip leader is accelerating its push ...

While Broadcom signaled strong demand from Google TPUs via Anthropic during last week’s earnings call, another leading Taiwanese ASIC supplier, MediaTek, is reported by the Economic Daily News to have secured orders for Google’s v7e and v8e TPUs. Supply chain sources cited by the report note tha...

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...