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Tuesday 13 October 2026
AI demand squeezes capacitor, resistor capacity as Taiwan suppliers eye price hikes
Rising capital expenditures by global cloud service providers (CSPs) are accelerating orders for AI computing infrastructure, boosting both the specifications and volumes of passive...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Column: From 3D NAND to 3D DRAM — how vertical stacking is reshaping memory chip manufacturing
After 2013, planar NAND flash memory began reaching its scaling limits at the 15–16nm process node. Capacitive coupling between the floating gates of adjacent memory cells increasingly...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
TDK and Taiyo Yuden to explore alliance on AI-grade capacitors and inductors
TDK and Taiyo Yuden have signed a memorandum of understanding to begin discussions on a business alliance to develop electronic components, including MLCCs and inductors jointly, the...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Inside China's 3D DRAM push: from lab to fab, and the road ahead
China's push into 3D DRAM is moving from early-stage research into wafer processes and equipment, with efforts spanning the Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academy of...
Saturday 12 September 2026
Murata targets mass production of its AI power substrate next year
Murata Manufacturing plans to begin mass production next year of iPaS, the power substrate it has spent several years developing for AI chips, a step that would carry the world's largest...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
AI server demand lifts Japanese capacitor shipments by 22% in first half of 2026
Japanese electronic component shipments rose in the first half of 2026 as demand from AI servers drove strong growth in capacitors and other parts. According to Nikkei and...
Monday 27 July 2026
AI demand, aluminium foil costs trigger rare capacitor price rises across China, Japan and Taiwan

Rising raw material costs and tightening supply of high-end components for AI applications have triggered an unusual round of price...

Friday 24 July 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics wins US$200 million AI server capacitor order

Samsung Electro-Mechanics disclosed on July 23 that it signed a KRW295.12 billion (US$200 million) supply contract with a major global...

Wednesday 1 July 2026
Yageo to raise capacitor prices, extending AI cost pressure to EMS and OEM customers
Leading passive components supplier Yageo is reportedly set to raise capacitor prices across the board from July 1, according to supply chain sources. The price hikes will cover tantalum...
Tuesday 30 June 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics targets AI server growth with MLCC talks, substrate push

Samsung Electro-Mechanics is in final-stage talks to supply multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) to a major US cloud provider for...

Tuesday 23 June 2026
AI power systems drive snap-in capacitor demand; Chinsan gains from order spillover

Demand in the passive component market has rebounded alongside the rapid buildout of AI data centers. While Japanese suppliers continue...

Thursday 18 June 2026
Nichicon raises e-cap prices as supply tightens, costs increase
Japanese capacitor manufacturer Nichicon has announced a broad price hike for aluminum electrolytic capacitors (e-cap), as order volumes for some products have exceeded the company's...
Wednesday 17 June 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics expands silicon capacitor push on integration edge

Samsung Electro-Mechanics (Semco) is rapidly gaining ground in the silicon capacitor market as AI infrastructure investment and technology...

Thursday 4 June 2026
Taiwan's Walsin Technology gains pricing power from AI demand

Walsin Technology, one of Taiwan's leading manufacturers of multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs), has notified distributors that it will...

Friday 29 May 2026
Winbond pushes 3x-priced AI Si-Cap shipments as Semco order ramps in 2027
AI demand for high-performance chips is driving up orders for semiconductor silicon capacitors, or Si-Caps, with Samsung Electro-Mechanics and several Taiwanese memory makers emerging...