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CXMT's US$8.5 billion IPO signals China's accelerating challenge to global memory leaders

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digitimes.com 2026-07-16

CXMT's Shanghai debut could reshape global memory markets by speeding China's push into advanced DRAM and HBM, while highlighting how US export controls are altering the industry's technology path. For readers worldwide, the listing signals both greater supply competition and a potential shift in where next-generation memory innovation develops.

ASML's rumored move to raise lithography prices sets up rare clash with TSMC as AI hands toolmakers pricing power

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digitimes.com 2026-07-16

An AI-fueled earnings beat has emboldened ASML to do something it rarely does: raise prices on the lithography machines that are essential to making advanced chips. That plan is now setting up an unusual confrontation with its largest customer, TSMC, and threatens to fall hardest on Chinese chipmakers with the fewest alternatives. It also lands in the middle of a broader 2026 repricing cycle that

Jensen refutes Vera Rubin's delay, continuing Nvidia's running rebuttal of the rumor mill

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digitimes.com 2026-07-16

Nvidia co-founder and chief executive Jensen Huang used a developer event in Tokyo on July 15 to reject reports that manufacturing problems could delay its next-generation AI accelerator systems, telling reporters the claims were "not true" and that "Vera Rubin is already in production. Giant amounts of production incoming."

Samsung may scale back foldable storage upgrades as memory costs rise

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digitimes.com 2026-07-16

Samsung Electronics is reportedly preparing to reduce a long-running preorder perk for its next Galaxy foldables as memory prices climb. According to ChosunBiz, the South Korean company will likely cut its "free storage upgrade" offer from a full double-capacity boost to a subsidy covering only half the price gap between the 256GB and 512GB versions.

Apple reportedly explores AI chip acquisitions as it races to strengthen its infrastructure

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digitimes.com 2026-07-16

Apple is exploring acquisitions of semiconductor companies to accelerate development of AI server chips, reflecting mounting pressure to improve the computing infrastructure behind its AI ambitions, according to The Information.

Column: From K-Semiconductor to AI superpower —How South Korea is taking its next chip leap

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South Korean President Lee Jae-myung unveiled the country's Three Mega Projects for AI and Semiconductors in late June 2026, an ambitious national strategy designed to strengthen South Korea's global leadership in artificial intelligence and semiconductors. The initiative centers on three pillars—semiconductors, physical AI, and AI data centers—and aims to double the nation's DRAM output within fi

Exclusive: Advanced packaging outpaces front-end growth while NPO paves way for commercial CPO

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digitimes.com 2026-07-16

Generative AI is accelerating demand for computing power, memory and data bandwidth, shifting semiconductor innovation beyond front-end processes toward advanced packaging, silicon photonics (SiPh) and Co-Packaged Optics (CPO). Benjamin Hein, CEO Electronics and Executive Board member at Merck, said advanced packaging materials are poised to outgrow front-end process materials and the broader mate

Japan's enterprises and startups adopt Nvidia open models for specialized AI

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digitimes.com 2026-07-16

Japan's companies and research institutions are turning to Nvidia's Nemotron open models to build AI tailored to local language, industry, and public-sector needs. The move highlights how open, customizable systems may shape national AI strategies far beyond Japan, affecting productivity, service delivery, and data control worldwide.

Memory and CPU supply gaps threaten server shipments in 3Q26

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digitimes.com 2026-07-16

Component shortages that began with PCs and smartphones are now spreading to servers. Inventec, a leading server motherboard maker, said supply gaps will continue widening from the third quarter of 2026 and could hit shipments, while a supply-chain source said some companies are even reluctant to talk about shortages for fear upstream vendors will redirect supply.

Nvidia doubles down on the land of the rising GPU, wiring Blackwell into Japan's science, banks, factories and cars

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digitimes.com 2026-07-16

Nvidia has laid out a sweeping expansion of its Japanese footprint. The company is moving beyond one-off supercomputer wins to embed its Blackwell-generation chips and software across the country's research labs, banks, hospitals, factories, and automakers. The breadth signals that Japan is being positioned as a full "AI ecosystem" for Nvidia, not a single-sector customer. It's a hedge that spread

Samsung weighs outsourcing Google TPU back-end design as 2nm demand grows

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digitimes.com 2026-07-16

Samsung Electronics is considering outsourcing some or all of the back-end design work for an input/output die in Google's reported 10th-generation tensor processing unit, as growing demand for Samsung's 2nm foundry process reportedly stretches its internal engineering resources.

Samsung, SK hynix race to make Gwangju memory hub operational within four years

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digitimes.com 2026-07-16

Samsung Electronics and SK hynix are set to anchor a KRW800 trillion (US$532.4 billion) semiconductor cluster at the former Gwangju military airport site in South Korea. Industry experts describe the project as a race against time, with an ambitious target of bringing four fabrication plants online within four years. Whether land, power, water, talent, and supply-chain infrastructure can be develo

Why Would Nvidia Invest $2 Billion in a Company Helping Build an Alternative to NVLink? - The Motley Fool

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www.fool.com 2026-07-16 The Motley Fool

Intel Deploys High-NA EUV in Mass Production for the First Time, Shipping Some Panther Lake Units to Customers - XenoSpectrum

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xenospectrum.com 2026-07-16 XenoSpectrum

Build a Multi-Camera 3D Tracking Application with NVIDIA DeepStream 9.1 Skills | NVIDIA Technical Blog - NVIDIA Developer

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developer.nvidia.com 2026-07-16 NVIDIA Developer

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE:TSM) Stock Looks Cheap Even With AI Demand Risk - Yahoo Finance

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finance.yahoo.com 2026-07-16 Yahoo Finance