Articles from 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in 2026
With 8,192 Ascend Chips and Optical Interconnect, Huawei's Atlas 950 SuperPod Aims to Bypass U.S. Sanctions
Huawei has lifted the curtain on its most ambitious AI computing system to date: the Atlas 950 SuperPod, a cluster designed to connect 8,192 of its own Ascend 950DT processors using an all-optical...
Gwangju’s 800 Trillion Won Fab Project Gets a Custom-Built Chip College
South Korea’s Gwangju and South Jeolla provinces are assembling an education joint venture designed to remove a perennial headache for semiconductor employers: a shortage of engineers who can walk...
Accellera Opens FSL Draft Review to Curb FMEDA Spreadsheet Chaos on Windows
Accellera’s Functional Safety Language (FSL) 1.0 draft, released for public review in late July 2026, proposes to end the spreadsheet roulette that engineers play when exchanging safety-critical...
NM-Tech’s New Packaging Line Signals Russia’s Seriousness About Chip Independence
NM-Tech, one of Russia’s most secretive semiconductor companies, is quietly assembling the pieces for in-house chip packaging at its Zelenograd site—a move that would transform it from a wafer...
Tokyo Electron Bets on Bunny-Eared Engineers to Power Tomorrow's Windows Devices
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China’s Immersion DUV Production Begins: The Windows Hardware Impact Explained
In late July 2025, Chinese state-owned company Shanghai Aishengna Electronic Technology Group reportedly began mass production of domestically developed immersion deep-ultraviolet (DUV) lithography...
Your Next Windows PC Won’t Feel TSMC’s $265B Arizona Push—But Your 2030 Laptop Will
TSMC will pour another $100 billion into its Arizona campus, the company announced in late July 2026, swelling its total planned U.S. investment to $265 billion. The expansion blueprint includes at...
Uzbekistan’s Chip Talks with Malaysia’s DNeX Could Bring Cheaper Windows PCs—Eventually
Uzbekistan’s government has initiated formal discussions with Malaysian technology group Dagang NeXchange Berhad (DNeX) to develop a domestic semiconductor ecosystem, a move that could eventually...
AI Data Center Gold Rush to Push Chip Sales Past $1.5 Trillion, Straining Supplies for PCs and Servers
The global semiconductor market is on track to hit $1.5 trillion in 2026, nearly doubling its 2025 revenue, as AI data centers consume a growing share of advanced chips, memory, and packaging...
Nvidia's 10x AI Chip Growth Forecast Will Reshape What Your Windows PC Does Next
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicted on July 27 that the semiconductor industry must expand tenfold over the next decade to power a future with 100 billion AI agents and billions of robots—a claim...
Ottawa's AI Plan Ignores the Chips Powering It. Here's What That Means for Canadian Tech
Canada laid out its national AI strategy on June 4, 2026, with six pillars covering everything from sovereign compute to workforce development. But the country's semiconductor council says a critical...
South Korea's Chip Lobby Just Hired a Trade Negotiator — Here's Why It Matters for Your Next PC
On July 28, the Korea Semiconductor Industry Association (KSIA) voted to appoint Park Kun-soo as its new standing vice chairman. Park takes office on August 1, serving a three-year term through July...