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Wednesday 19 August 2026
Charts: Taiwan's materials suppliers split: wafer giants stall, substrate and lead-frame names run

The two largest silicon wafer companies are the sector's slowest growers on a cumulative basis. Everything running fast sits downstream...

Wednesday 19 August 2026
Charts: Memory, not logic, is doing the work in Taiwan's July chip revenue

Scale and growth have decoupled. TSMC still supplies more than half the sector's monthly sales, but the growth table now belongs to...

Wednesday 19 August 2026
Charts: New capacity is starting to show up in Taiwan's packaging and test revenue
Ardentec credits a new fab entering volume production for the sharpest monthly jump in the sub-sector; ELASER's revenue nearly doubled year on year on customer demand.
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Analysis: China's AI chip ambitions collide with Ajinomoto's 95% grip on ABF film

China's semiconductor self-reliance campaign is moving beyond lithography machines and advanced processors into less visible materials...

Friday 14 August 2026
Analysis: Taiwan Mobile takes control of Systex to close ICT gap with Chunghwa Telecom, Far EasTone

Taiwan Mobile announced on August 13 that it will acquire additional common shares of Systex through its wholly owned subsidiary Taiwan...

Friday 14 August 2026
Analysis: Google's Pixel tests Android's competitive balance

Google's Pixel 11 launch signals a broader shift in mobile hardware, with implications that extend beyond the company's own sales....

Tuesday 11 August 2026
Analysis: Google's AI shake-up shifts power from star scientists to managers
Google has carried out its biggest artificial intelligence (AI) reorganization since merging Google Brain and DeepMind in 2023, putting Sundar Pichai and Koray Kavukcuoglu at the center...
Saturday 8 August 2026
Analysis: Memory makers hold US$38 billion that isn't theirs to keep

Suppliers locked supply and price floors through 2030. The collateral protecting them runs out first — and that is when procurement...

Friday 7 August 2026
Analysis: SpaceX's Nvidia exclusivity isn't a knock on AMD — it's a land grab in orbit

SpaceX's earnings call — the first since its IPO disclosure — beat expectations on Aug 4, but the line that moved markets...

Thursday 6 August 2026
Analysis: SpaceX's first earnings call reveals machinery behind its infrastructure empire

SpaceX's first earnings disclosure delivered a stronger-than-expected quarterly performance, but the greater significance of the call...

Wednesday 5 August 2026
Analysis: Musk's empire closes in on China — from orbit to the factory floor

SpaceX's rapid growth in AI, satellite connectivity, and space infrastructure is widening the strategic challenge for China beyond...

Wednesday 5 August 2026
Analysis: AMD and Nvidia take opposite paths to capture next wave of AI infrastructure spending
Two earnings calls three months apart show AMD and Nvidia converging on the same AI infrastructure boom from opposite directions. AMD is building a single rack-scale platform, Helios,...
Tuesday 4 August 2026
Analysis: Tesla's driverless ambitions get regulatory reality check

Tesla's latest quarterly results fell short of market expectations, but another development attracted equal attention: CEO Elon Musk...

Friday 31 July 2026
Analysis: The AI buildout stopped being a demand story

For three years, the constraint on artificial intelligence was how much compute the hyperscalers wanted to buy. The June-quarter filings...

Friday 31 July 2026
Analysis: Behind Microsoft's AI strategy to sharpen platform edge

Microsoft is no longer framing artificial intelligence as a race to build the single best model. Instead, it is positioning itself...