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Thursday 5 November 2026
Chipmakers rush to secure equipment for 2029 as lead times top two years
Chipmakers are moving to secure production equipment for delivery as far ahead as 2029, as AI-driven fab expansion pushes some equipment lead times beyond two years and forces manufacturers...
Thursday 5 November 2026
China's Big Fund III pivots to 12-inch chip fabs, equipment acquisitions to close semiconductor supply chain gaps
China's National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund Phase III (Big Fund III) is shifting its focus from targeted semiconductor investments to large-scale manufacturing and...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Flexium eyes 2027 breakthrough as PTFE enters mass production in 2028
Flexium Interconnect chairman Walter Cheng said the company has emerged from the toughest operating downturn of the past two years and expects AI orders for smart glasses and infrastructure...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Analysis: Qualcomm's AI server CPU ambitions gain urgency as smartphone slump threatens its core business
Qualcomm's weakening smartphone business is accelerating its transformation into an AI infrastructure supplier, with custom accelerators, server CPUs, and optical connectivity emerging...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Arm reports record fiscal 2Q27 revenue on licensing momentum and AGI CPU demand
Arm delivered a record-breaking second quarter for fiscal year 2027, reporting total revenue of US$1.44 billion, up 27% year-over-year. This milestone marks the company's fifth straight...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Winbond approves US$2.2 billion fab expansion, seeks long-term deals with 10 customers
Winbond's board has approved approximately NT$73.1 billion (approx. US$2.23 billion) in capital spending to expand its Kaohsiung wafer fab, as the Taiwanese memory chipmaker prepares...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Syntec Technology's new factories in India, Malaysia to push capacity to more than double in 2027
Syntec Technology is actively advancing its global production capacity expansion and artificial intelligence (AI) technology deployment. The company announced on November 4 that its...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Corning starts optical connectivity output in western India, plans larger adjacent plant for 2027
Corning's move to begin making optical connectivity products in Pune and add a larger adjacent plant by 2027 shows the AI-driven surge in data center fiber demand, so far strongest...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Qualcomm wins Starlink Mobile infrastructure deal as SpaceX advances terrestrial network
Qualcomm has secured a role in SpaceX's planned US terrestrial mobile network, turning Starlink Mobile's ambitions for integrated satellite and ground-based connectivity into a named...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Google commits US$15 billion to expand Malaysian data centers in 2027 and 2028
Google's plan to invest US$15 billion in Malaysia over 2027 and 2028 deepens its bet on what AFP calls Southeast Asia's fastest-growing data center hub, and ties the expansion to commitments...
Thursday 5 November 2026
GlobalFoundries revenue rises 13% as data center demand offsets mobile decline
GlobalFoundries' third quarter showed the contract chipmaker's revenue base shifting from smartphones to AI-related networking, and that shift is now boosting profitability. Revenue...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Qualcomm's September-quarter revenue falls 8% as handset slump outweighs automotive gains
Qualcomm's fiscal fourth quarter showed a company whose growth now comes almost entirely from outside the smartphone, but not yet at a scale that can offset a shrinking handset business...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Arm's quarterly revenue rises 27% as licensing outpaces smartphone-weighed royalties
Arm's September quarter showed demand for its technology moving toward data centers while its smartphone royalty base slowed. Revenue rose 27% from a year earlier to a record US$1.44...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Chicony Power profit hit by notebooks in Q3 2026
Chicony Power Technology Co. reported weaker quarterly results in the third quarter of 2026 as slowing notebook demand and severe memory shortages among customers weighed on performance...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Airoha targets multibillion growth as 100G ramps, 200G tapes out
Airoha, a MediaTek subsidiary, expects its optical communications business to deliver another multiple-fold increase in 2027 as 100G pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM4) digital signal...