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Monday 12 October 2026
Largan signals early peak-season cut, challenging phone chips in 4Q26
Largan chairman and CEO Adam Lin said October 2026 orders are tracking at roughly the same level as September's, but will begin declining in November as customers cut their forecasts...
Monday 12 October 2026
Moonshot AI's Hong Kong IPO faces a critical ownership dispute ahead of US$50 billion debut
China's Moonshot AI is seeking to settle a shareholder dispute involving claims potentially exceeding US$700 million ahead of a potential US$5 billion Hong Kong initial public offering...
Monday 12 October 2026
Aurona Industries posts 19% September growth as Taiwan plant targets 2027 trial run
Aurona Industries reported September revenue of NT$137 million (US$4.3 million), up 19.29% from a year earlier, as pre-holiday inventory building in China strengthened customer orders...
Monday 12 October 2026
Samsung could unseat SK Hynix as HBM leader in 2027
Samsung Electronics could overtake SK Hynix as the world's largest supplier of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) in 2027, as HBM4 prices climb and memory manufacturers compete for limited...
Monday 12 October 2026
Taiwan exports soar as shipments to the US top US$200 billion in first nine months
Taiwan's exports hit a single-month record high of US$87.22 billion in September 2026, lifting the year-to-date total for the first nine months of the year to US$661.55 billion, according...
Monday 12 October 2026
Apple's iPhone 18 order cuts expose widening divide in premium demand

Apple's iPhone 18 Pro lineup is showing mixed demand signals weeks after launch. Reports of component order cuts suggest weaker-than-expected sales,...

Monday 12 October 2026
Taiwan's UMT extends 50%-plus revenue growth streak as LEO satellite deployments accelerate
Taiwan-based Universal Microwave Technology (UMT) reported September 2026 revenue of NT$292 million (US$9.15 million), up 52.49% year-over-year, extending its streak of monthly year-over-year...
Monday 12 October 2026
ELAN Microelectrics's 3Q26 PC momentum stalls on shortages, inventory overhang
Touch IC leader Elan Microelectronics recently announced its September 2026 consolidated revenue of NT$602 million (approx. US$18.9 million), down 18.74% month-over-month and 46.9%...
Monday 12 October 2026
AI's next hiring wave is shifting from model makers to onsite problem solvers
Global technology companies and South Korean system integrators are widening their artificial intelligence hiring beyond model researchers to frontline engineers who work inside customer...
Monday 12 October 2026
Commentary: Largan plays defense in phones, presses CPO offensive
Largan chairman Adam Lin spoke about the company's cautious smartphone outlook while taking a more aggressive stance on co-packaged optics (CPO) during a recent online earnings briefing...
Monday 12 October 2026
Mistral unveils ML4 open-weight model, touts edge over Chinese rivals
French AI startup Mistral has launched a public preview of Mistral Large 4 (ML4), a 1-trillion-parameter AI model whose weights are scheduled for public release in late October 2026,...
Monday 12 October 2026
CXMT targets 2026 debut of 4F² DDR5 RDIMM in bid to challenge server DRAM rivals

China's ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) plans to introduce DDR5 registered DIMMs (RDIMMs) based on its new 4F² DRAM architecture by the...

Monday 12 October 2026
MediaTek flagship AP share to surpass Samsung as TSMC boosts Dimensity
As the global smartphone system-on-chip (SoC) market contracts, competition in the high-end application processor (AP) segment is intensifying. MediaTek is accelerating its push into...
Monday 12 October 2026
Weekly news roundup: Musk's Terafab faces reality check; Samsung HBM4E clears quality validation
This week's (October 5 to October 11, 2026) coverage highlights intensifying efforts to build resilient semiconductor and AI hardware supply chains. Elon Musk's Terafab project faces...
Monday 12 October 2026
Asian AI server suppliers play down impact of US patent probe
The US International Trade Commission's (USITC) decision on October 9 to investigate 20 suppliers of AI server power systems, most of them Taiwanese or Chinese companies and their...