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Monday 2 November 2026
Rebuilding the American edge: How TSMC is driving US manufacturing and economic opportunity
The ambition to repatriate advanced manufacturing to the United States has reached a critical turning point. Central to this national push is the massive expansion of Taiwan Semiconductor...
Monday 2 November 2026
Commentary: China's Nvidia H200 challengers look beyond GPU power, with Huawei and T-Head targeting system-scale AI
Iluvatar CoreX has reported benchmark results showing its Tiangai 300 AI accelerator outperforming Nvidia's H200 on selected metrics, drawing renewed attention to China's progress...
Monday 2 November 2026
Kioxia's AI storage boom faces a test as pricing gains moderate, shipments shift
Kioxia's latest results show how AI infrastructure spending is reshaping the NAND flash business, lifting profitability even as consumer demand weakens. Its nearly flat outlook for...
Monday 2 November 2026
Weekly news roundup: Taiwan debates talent distribution; SK Hynix looks beyond HBM
This week’s coverage highlights intensifying competition and capacity constraints across the global semiconductor industry. Taiwan faces debate over whether public R&D funding...
Monday 2 November 2026
Musk may let TSMC run his Texas chip fab as his do-it-alone plan stalls
Elon Musk is reportedly reconsidering his approach to collaborating with TSMC on the Terafab project, signaling a potential shift from his original ambition to independently build...
Monday 2 November 2026
Column: Samsung's memory boom reshapes its investment strategy
Samsung Electronics has never had more capital at its disposal. The company reported operating profit of KRW89.5 trillion (approx. US$67 billion) in the second quarter of 2026 and...
Monday 2 November 2026
India roundup: India accelerates semiconductor push as states, chipmakers and equipment suppliers expand investment

India's semiconductor ambitions are gathering momentum as states launch new subsidies, chipmakers weigh fabs, global suppliers consider manufacturing,...

Monday 2 November 2026
GigaDevice's massive financial growth in 2026 capitalizing on its A+H listing, memory surge
GigaDevice's financial performance through the first three quarters of 2026 highlights a transformative period driven by strategic market positioning, capital expansion, and robust...
Monday 2 November 2026
Nytex targets 35% of sales from high-end materials by 2027
Nytex Composites, a Taiwan-based specialty plastics compounder, aims to increase high-end materials' share of revenue to 35% in 2027, up from 25.76% in the first half of 2026, as demand...
Monday 2 November 2026
Analysis: Samsung's own memory unit pushes its foundry toward a 2027 capacity crunch
Samsung Electronics' contract chipmaking business spent years struggling to fill its factories. On its third-quarter earnings call, the company said that by 2027, demand will exceed...
Sunday 1 November 2026
The 20% problem: why Taiwan's imported equipment parts still carry 70% of the cost
Taiwan can manufacture some of the world's most advanced chips, package them into increasingly complex AI systems, and connect much of the surrounding electronics supply chain within...
Sunday 1 November 2026
The pioneer behind TSMC's FinFET leap: a personal look at Chenming Hu
In 2008, I accompanied a graduate student delegation sponsored by Applied Materials to visit the University of California, Berkeley. The trip was arranged with hopes of meeting Dr...
Sunday 1 November 2026
Six decades in the making: Why the world can't easily copy Taiwan's chip ecosystem
Taiwan's semiconductor strength is often described today through leading-edge process nodes, advanced packaging capacity, or its pivotal role in the global AI supply chain. At the...
Saturday 31 October 2026
Nvidia moves beyond GPUs as Meta's Muse agent stack pulls it deeper into AI infrastructure
The launch of Muse in September across Meta's expanding agent ecosystem has highlighted how quickly AI agents are evolving beyond conventional chatbot architectures, bringing more...
Saturday 31 October 2026
TSIA 30: The manpower problem behind Taiwan's semiconductor resilience
Taiwan's semiconductor industry has earned its reputation for chip dominance through decades of sustained investment in solving some of the world's hardest technological challenges...