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Monday 14 September 2026
AI demand lifts UMC, VIS, PSMC revenue
After mature-node price competition from 2023 to 2025, AI demand has spread from GPUs and HBM to power management ICs (PMICs), power components, networking chips and specialty processes. At the same time, aggressive price cutting by mature-node players in China has eased, pushing quotes for Taiwan foundries broadly higher since the start of 2026.
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Tuesday 15 September 2026
China elevates HBM and HBF in five-year plan, opening a new front in AI memory
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) have jointly released the 15th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Electronic Information Manufacturing Industry. For the first time, the plan identifies high-bandwidth flash memory and high-bandwidth memory as priority areas for next-generation memory research.
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Samsung's Cheonan plant reallocates packaging capacity from Exynos to HBM
Samsung Electronics is accelerating the restructuring of its semiconductor packaging footprint. Its Cheonan facility is gradually phasing out packaging operations for the Exynos mobile application processor (AP), and repurposing the equipment for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) production.
Tuesday 15 September 2026
BIS blocks Polestar authorization, forcing new vehicles out of US market from 2027

Polestar, the Swedish electric vehicle (EV) brand backed by Geely Holding, is facing a major restructuring of its US operations. In its first-half 2026 financial report filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on September 3, Polestar said the US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) had denied its application for specific authorization under US connected vehicle regulations.

Tuesday 15 September 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix diverge on cell design for sub-10nm DRAM in 2028

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are preparing to move DRAM below the 10nm threshold in 2028, with the two memory makers pursuing different cell structures as conventional scaling becomes increasingly difficult.

Tuesday 15 September 2026
China's space-computing race moves beyond single satellites: Shanghai's gigawatt-scale AI ambition lands in orbit
While the US showcases its strength as one of the world's established space powers — reinforced by SpaceX's growing dominance in satellite connectivity — a quieter but equally ambitious force is accelerating half a world away: China's push to build integrated, fully networked orbital infrastructure that goes beyond single-satellite launches.
Tuesday 15 September 2026
China's EV boom enters a phase of overcapacity cleanup
Within a relatively short span of time, China has built a formidable EV industry that has proved difficult for any other country to match globally, nurtured by years of industrial policy, infrastructure investment and government support.
Tuesday 15 September 2026
HS Hyosung joint venture to invest KRW1.2 trillion in Ulsan silicon anode plant

HS Hyosung Energy Solution Korea, a joint venture formed by South Korea's HS Hyosung Group and Belgian materials leader Umicore, signed a memorandum of understanding with Ulsan Metropolitan City on September 14 to construct a major silicon anode materials manufacturing base.

Tuesday 15 September 2026
Panasonic Energy eyes JPY1 trillion yen AI storage revenue by 2028

Panasonic Energy, the battery unit of Panasonic Holdings, is betting big on energy storage for AI data centers as demand for backup batteries from AI data centers surges. The company said it will keep energy storage systems (ESS) as a core growth driver and flex investment plans to match market demand.

Tuesday 15 September 2026
Chinese tech firms deepen open source push amid AI pacing debate

As US AI executives warn that artificial intelligence development may need to slow down, Chinese companies are pressing ahead with open source tools and large-scale deployment. The gap matters far beyond China, because the next phase of AI competition may be shaped as much by collaboration and standards as by chips and model size.

Tuesday 15 September 2026
Chinese chip tools reach 35% of equipment installed at local fabs
Chinese-made semiconductor equipment accounted for roughly 35% of tools installed at fabs in China in 2025, up from about 25% a year earlier, as domestic suppliers gain ground in key process-equipment markets.
Tuesday 15 September 2026
AI's next bottleneck may be profitability, not compute, SK chair warns
For years, as the heat surrounding AI continued to build, competitiveness across the industry was largely measured by brute-force computing power. The broader infrastructure race was dominated by a frenzy of data-center buildouts, where speed, scale and safety emerged as the three core thresholds to meet in the agentic AI era.
Tuesday 15 September 2026
South Korean firms hold 80% of the automotive OLED market
South Korean panel makers command about 80% of the automotive OLED market, according to Sigmaintell, as electrification and smarter vehicles keep demand for car displays stable and drive growth in new applications such as head-up displays. Competition is set to intensify as China's LCD makers press into higher-end automotive screens.
Tuesday 15 September 2026
XPeng's Turing chip expands beyond cars
XPeng Motors is extending its self-developed Turing AI chip from intelligent electric vehicles (EVs) into humanoid robots, broadening the processor's role in the company's Physical AI strategy. Originally designed for intelligent driving, the chip is now also used in XPeng's IRON humanoid robot. On September 8, the company launched its robot production line, with the first IRON completing automated final assembly.
Tuesday 15 September 2026
China sets first AI-brain-computer interface medical device standard

China has introduced what it says is the world's first medical-device standard for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that use AI to process electroencephalogram (EEG) data, marking a step toward tighter regulation and commercialization of the emerging technology.

Tuesday 15 September 2026
Hyundai Motor Group bets on data, Nvidia, and in-house AI to speed autonomous driving rollout
Hyundai Motor Group is moving to standardize its autonomous driving hardware, deepen its data pipeline, and accelerate in-house AI development as it prepares a staggered rollout of mass-production vehicles from 2028 through 2029. The strategy highlights how the group plans to compete not only on vehicle features, but also on learning speed, data scale, and software iteration.