{"id":1025653,"date":"2026-08-03T07:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T01:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025653"},"modified":"2026-08-03T07:28:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T01:58:32","slug":"mediatek-board-approves-5-billion-financing-for-ai-data-center-custom-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/03\/mediatek-board-approves-5-billion-financing-for-ai-data-center-custom-chips\/","title":{"rendered":"MediaTek board approves $5-billion financing for AI data center custom chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Taiwanese fabless chipmaker MediaTek said on Thursday that its board has approved a $5-billion discretionary financing budget to support long-term expansion into AI application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for data centers. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis flexible framework provides us with optionality when needed to agilely support our long-term growth and capitalise on massive data center opportunities,\u201d MediaTek CEO Rick Tsai said during the company\u2019s second-quarter (2Q26) earnings call with analysts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Taiwanese fabless chipmaker MediaTek said on Thursday that its board has approved a $5-billion discretionary financing budget to support long-term expansion into AI application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) for data centers. \u201cThis flexible framework provides us with optionality when needed to agilely support our long-term growth and capitalise on massive data center opportunities,\u201d MediaTek CEO Rick Tsai said during the company\u2019s second-quarter (2Q26) earnings call with analysts.<\/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-1025653","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\/1025653","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=1025653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025669,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025653\/revisions\/1025669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}