{"id":1025395,"date":"2026-08-01T07:56:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025395"},"modified":"2026-08-01T07:58:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:28:29","slug":"mediatek-plans-5-billion-financing-for-ai-data-center-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/01\/mediatek-plans-5-billion-financing-for-ai-data-center-chips\/","title":{"rendered":"MediaTek plans $5 billion financing for AI data-center chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MediaTek, Taiwan&#8217;s largest chip designer, said on Friday its board had approved a discretionary financing budget of $5 billion to support long-term growth, including its expansion into AI chips for data centres. <\/p>\n<p>The plan highlights the company&#8217;s push to reduce its reliance on smartphones and become a significant supplier of custom AI chips, known as ASICs, to major cloud providers. <\/p>\n<p>Although the market is dominated by a small \u200cgroup of players, \u2060rapidly \u2060rising spending on AI infrastructure is giving MediaTek, best known for smartphone processors, an opportunity to expand into a faster-growing and higher-margin business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MediaTek, Taiwan&#8217;s largest chip designer, said on Friday its board had approved a discretionary financing budget of $5 billion to support long-term growth, including its expansion into AI chips for data centres. The plan highlights the company&#8217;s push to reduce its reliance on smartphones and become a significant supplier of custom AI chips, known as ASICs, to major cloud providers. Although the market is dominated by a small \u200cgroup of players, \u2060rapidly \u2060rising spending on AI infrastructure is giving MediaTek, best known for smartphone processors, an opportunity to expand into a faster-growing and higher-margin business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025419,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025395\/revisions\/1025419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}