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The Netherlands used a trade mission to Beijing this week to reopen economic ties with China while semiconductor tensions remained at the center of the agenda. Dutch trade officials met Chinese counterparts as Amsterdam sought to manage disputes involving Nexperia and ASML amid broader US-China technology restrictions.

China unveils memristor chip for real-time neural dynamics, pushes computing into millisecond range

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digitimes.com 2026-07-08

A Chinese research team has developed a phase-change memristor-based neural dynamical system chip, offering a potential hardware path for real-time brain modeling, brain-computer interfaces, and brain disease diagnosis.

Novatek beats second-quarter revenue guidance on strong customer stockpiling

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digitimes.com 2026-07-08

Novatek reported June revenue of NT$10.023 billion, up 6.48% from the previous month and 18.96% from a year earlier, pushing second-quarter revenue to NT$28.66 billion. The chip designer's second-quarter result rose 24% quarter over quarter and 9.59% year over year, topping its earlier forecast of NT$27.5 billion to NT$28.5 billion.

AI servers squeeze MOSFET supply while PC slump tests power component pricing power

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digitimes.com 2026-07-08

AI servers are tightening Taiwan's power component supply chain, lifting demand for MOSFETs, PMICs, cooling motors and power management products even as weak PC demand limits suppliers' ability to pass on higher costs.

CPUs return to AI spotlight as agentic workloads reshape data center demand; Perplexity plans to adopt Nvidia's Vera

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digitimes.com 2026-07-08

As AI workloads pivot toward emerging needs for systems that can perform tasks with a coordinated balance between speed and control, the hardware race is moving beyond GPUs. While the critical role GPUs have played across the AI compute landscape is not in doubt, the expansion of inference, reasoning, and agentic AI is placing CPUs back at the center of the AI hardware race.

National Center for Instrumentation Research helps academia break 2D materials bottleneck

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digitimes.com 2026-07-08

As AI infrastructure chip orders flood in and TSMC runs near nonstop, academia has found it difficult to carry out industry-academia collaboration with the world's top foundry house. Taiwan's government-funded research institutes, including the National Institutes of Applied Research (NIAR) and Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), are emerging as a better route for partnerships.

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