Samsung camera sensors may explain iPhone 18 base model delay
Apple this year released only the iPhone 18 Pro models alongside its first foldable iPhone. Reports say the standard iPhone 18 will now launch in...
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China trade surplus tops US$1 trillion for second straight year
China’s trade surplus exceeded US$1 trillion for a second consecutive year, official data released on Tuesday showed, as exports surged 35.2% year‑on‑year in October and...
Analog Devices schedules CFO Richard Puccio for Dec. 1 UBS AI conference
Analog Devices said CFO Richard Puccio will speak at the UBS Global Technology and AI Conference on Tuesday, December 1, giving investors a scheduled opportunity...
Samsung Texas plant could begin trial chip production in December
Samsung is reportedly on track to begin trial chip production at its Taylor, Texas plant as soon as December 2026, with full-scale manufacturing planned for...
Braze Soars After Salesforce Deal, Boosts Software Sector
Braze (BRZE) shares catapulted more than 50% on Tuesday after Salesforce CRM agreed to buy the AI-powered marketing platform for $5.66 billion in enterprise value,...
Samsung profit hits record KRW 107.4 trillion as AI boosts memory sales
Samsung profit reached a record KRW 107.4 trillion (~$79.8 billion) in Q3 2026 on revenue of KRW 195 trillion (~$144.9 billion), the company said in...
Exynos Auto: Samsung halts development of future car chips
Samsung has reportedly decided to halt development of future Exynos Auto chips for vehicles, effectively pausing its Exynos Auto program despite heavy investment since 2018....
Muse Emerges: Meta’s New AI Agent Reshaping the Tech Landscape
Meta launched its personal AI agent Muse on September 8. The product quickly gained consumer traction—topping the US Apple App Store’s free app chart within...
India Technology Trends Shaping the Digital Future in 2026
In 2026 India is setting the agendas that will shape its digital decade: it operates the world’s largest real-time payments system, runs one of the...
Tesla chips: Samsung’s Texas fab begins production early
Samsung Electronics has begun production early at its Taylor, Texas fabrication plant under a $16.5 billion deal to produce Tesla’s next-generation AI chips, moving up...
Samsung boosts pay as US firms poach semiconductor engineers
Samsung is increasing compensation to retain semiconductor engineers as US companies actively recruit talent, with rivals offering record salaries and incentives to tempt engineers to...
Future Technologies by 2040: Europe’s Path to a EUR 20 Trillion Market
Thirty emerging technology fields are set to drive the next major wave of global economic growth, with their combined market value expected to rise nearly...
Auto Technology Shift: From Make in India to Create in India
India’s automotive industry is shifting from scale-focused manufacturing to ownership of auto technology, design, intellectual property and advanced engineering, with semiconductors, battery cells, power electronics...
ASML partnership boosts Samsung’s chip production for the AI era
Samsung has expanded its partnership with Dutch semiconductor equipment giant ASML to use ASML’s advanced machines to produce more advanced logic and memory chips for...
ChipMango raises US$1.9M seed to scale chip-design globally
Nigerian startup ChipMango has raised US$1.9 million in a seed round to expand its chip-design operations across Africa, Europe and the United States. Founded in...
Discovered Materials raises $9M to accelerate AI-driven materials discovery
Discovered Materials, a San Francisco, California-based startup building AI agents that discover and accelerate the adoption of new materials for semiconductor chips, has closed a...
iPhone 17 Prices May Rise as Apple Faces Memory Cost Squeeze
There is growing speculation that Apple could raise iPhone 17 prices when the iPhone 18 Pro models arrive in September, a possibility amplified by CEO...
Ingenic launches Hong Kong IPO to raise up to HK$3.22bn
Beijing-based Ingenic Semiconductor has launched a Hong Kong share offering to raise up to HK$3.22 billion (US$410.4 million), joining a growing wave of mainland Chinese...
Semiconductors Drive 23.1% Rise in China’s Output in Jan–Jul 2026
China’s semiconductor output rose 23.1% in the first seven months of 2026 to 334.2 billion units, as integrated circuit production expanded by more than 20%...
Samsung R&D spending tops $19 billion in first half of 2026
Samsung R&D spending reached 27.3 trillion Korean won (roughly $19 billion) from January through June 2026, according to a regulatory filing made in South Korea....
Claude Code speeds Samsung chip development but needs oversight
Samsung’s System LSI division has begun using Anthropic’s AI coding tool, Claude Code, for semiconductor-specific tasks, and the tool has reportedly cut development time dramatically...
Snapdragon price hike could make Samsung devices pricier
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said, “The semiconductor industry is experiencing a broad-based increase in input costs, across wafer fabrication, assembly, test, advanced packaging, memory and...
Will Samsung start producing its most advanced 2nm chips next year?
Samsung recently disclosed advancements in its semiconductor fabrication technologies, including new 2nm process nodes and an initial 1.4nm process. The company has introduced its latest...
Will Samsung’s $90 billion investment in Korea boost battery, chip, and OLED production?
Samsung has unveiled plans to invest over $90 billion in South Korea’s Chungcheong region, focusing on the development and production of OLED panels, high-bandwidth memory...
How is Samsung optimizing its next-gen 2nm chips?
Samsung recently presented its next-generation 2nm semiconductor fabrication process at the SAFE Forum 2026 in South Korea. The company is employing a methodology known as...