SiPearl, a fabless company backed by the European Union and France, has delivered the first Rhea1 CPU samples to Bull for integration into Europe’s JUPITER supercomputer, moving the European-designed processor from bring-up and validation into customer system integration while benchmarking continues.

Anthropic and OpenAI are expected to start buying memory directly from manufacturers in 2027 as model developers take greater control of chip and data-center design, potentially broadening the customer base for major memory suppliers beyond GPU and system vendors.

Vivo unveiled its new X500 series imaging flagship phones in Shanghai on September 21, 2026, aiming to build a stronger moat in mobile imaging and break through more aggressively in the premium smartphone market. As rising memory prices force handset makers to lift retail prices, IDC expects worldwide smartphone shipments to fall 16.7% in 2026 to just over 1 billion units.

Millimeter-wave communications technology and solutions provider TMY Technology (Tmytek) officially listed on Taiwan’s Innovation Board on September 22 at an offering price of NT$60 (approx. US$1.90) per share. The company said its products, which span millimeter-wave R&D and validation instruments, Lego-like phased-array antennas and subsystem modules, have moved from development and verification into commercial delivery and mass production.

Changs Ascending’s board approved an operating plan on Sept. 21 to launch an energy systems integration push into the AI data center sector, betting on structurally rising demand from AI computing centers for stable power, backup power, and ESS. The lithium battery materials maker aims to extend its proven UPS, lithium iron phosphate battery and BESS integration capabilities in semiconductor sites into AI data center power infrastructure as the next growth engine for its energy business.

China is preparing a business delegation for President Xi Jinping’s Washington visit as Beijing pursues more predictable trade relations and opportunities for companies facing US market-access barriers. The preparations combine official economic talks with a proposed corporate entourage, although the sources reviewed have not publicly confirmed the individual executives attending.