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Tuesday 7 July 2026
AI lifts high-voltage prices as bubble fears return

AI demand and capacity crowd-out effects are driving higher prices and volumes for high-voltage products, according to IC distributors,...

Tuesday 7 July 2026
Ingenic says DRAM foundry capacity strain won't ease until 2H27
China memory makers are diverging in their outlook as AI demand keeps the global memory market tight. After GigaDevice recently issued an unusual risk warning, Beijing-based special...
Tuesday 7 July 2026
Memory prices rebound as supply tightens, with global buyers facing higher costs

Global markets are likely to feel the effects of a renewed rise in memory prices, as tighter supply and early inventory buying lift...

Monday 6 July 2026
Samsung Foundry eyes comeback after Tesla chip win
Samsung Electronics is trying to turn its foundry business into a bigger supplier of custom chips after securing a Tesla order, as the company looks to rebuild a contract chipmaking...
Monday 6 July 2026
LandMark Optoelectronics posts record revenue in June, expands for post-2028 growth

LandMark Optoelectronics (LMOC) posted record-high single-month revenue in June 2026 and is stepping up its expansion plans to prepare...

Monday 6 July 2026
China's chip equipment makers ramp up expansion as AI and memory boom fuel domestic demand

China's leading semiconductor equipment manufacturers are accelerating expansion through acquisitions and fundraising, as surging AI...

Monday 6 July 2026
SEMI warns Trump admin against meddling in memory market

SEMI has warned the Trump administration that intervening in memory-chip pricing or production capacity could worsen a historic supply...

Monday 6 July 2026
Europe's defense boom has a semiconductor problem
Europe's defense industry is running into a structural bottleneck: the semiconductors needed for modern missiles, drones, radar, communications, and electronic warfare cannot be produced...
Monday 6 July 2026
Phison says AI demand could erase NAND memory's boom-and-bust cycle
AI is reshaping the memory market in ways that could matter well beyond Taiwan and China, according to Phison Electronics founder and chief executive Pua Khein-Seng. He said growing...
Monday 6 July 2026
Meta's AI cloud idea underscores a search for returns, not an AI retreat
Meta is reportedly exploring a new AI cloud infrastructure business that would let enterprises use its AI models and some unused GPU capacity, a move that could lift hardware utilization...
Monday 6 July 2026
Front-loaded Asia-Pacific shipping demand keeps freight rates elevated into peak season
Sea and air freight capacity stayed tight as the second-half shipping season approached, with strong exports of AI and semiconductor products from Taiwan to the US continuing to pressure...
Monday 6 July 2026
Asahi Kasei to expand Taiwan photoresist film capacity for AI chip packaging
Asahi Kasei, one of the notable suppliers of Sunfort dry film photoresist in Japan, has initiated a fab expansion project in Taiwan. The newly established plant is expected to further...
Monday 6 July 2026
ESMT revenue hits record high as DDR2 and DDR3 prices keep climbing
Elite Semiconductor Microelectronics Technology (ESMT), a memory IC design house, posted record monthly consolidated revenue of NT$4.85 billion (approx. US$152 million) in June 2026,...
Sunday 5 July 2026
AI, HPC test interface demand drives CHPT June revenue to new monthly high

Test interface supplier Chunghwa Precision Test Tech. Co., Ltd. (CHPT) reported its June 2026 revenue, marking its sixth consecutive...

Saturday 4 July 2026
SoftBank targets AI cloud market with 10GW US rental plan

SoftBank Group (SBG) and telecom subsidiary SoftBank said they will set up a new company in the US in July 2026 to rent out AI computing...