Tag: semiconductors

Samsung flags $110b+ quarterly profit on AI boom

Posted on   |  by Heekyong Yang and Hyunjoo Jin
Samsung Electronics has projected its quarterly profit would top $US80 billion (A$114 billion), a world first for a technology company, estimating a nearly nine-fold jump in third-quarter earnings as...

Taiwan flexes chip diplomacy muscles on sharing AI benefits

Posted on   |  by Ben Blanchard and Wen-Yee Lee
Taiwan flexed its chip diplomacy muscles at a major trade show in the past week, portraying itself as a democratic and reliable supplier for the AI revolution, while signaling...

South Korea to launch $5bn semiconductor fund

Posted on   |  by Kyu-seok Shim and Heejin Kim
South Korea will launch a 5 trillion won semiconductor fund targeting promising chip materials, parts, equipment and fabless companies, a presidential official said, as Seoul seeks to accelerate plans...

Back for seconds: NRF tips another $40m into SQC

Posted on   |  by David Allen
The federal government’s $15 billion industry fund has tripled its stake in Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC), pumping an extra $40 million into the local startup in its largest investment...

Diraq names Windows pioneer Scott McGregor as Chair

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Global tech executive Scott A. McGregor will step in as board chair of Australian quantum semiconductor firm Diraq as it intensifies its push into the US market and preps...

Huawei’s new AI chip brings in ByteDance, Alibaba

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Customer testing of Huawei’s new AI chip, designed to challenge Nvidia in the China market, has gone well and big tech giants including ByteDance and Alibaba plan to place...