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Monday 4 May 2026
DIGITIMES Chair: South Korea's 260,000 GPU plan relies heavily on Taiwanese production, highlights need for collaboration in AI era
As global demand for AI infrastructure accelerates, the collaboration between Taiwan and South Korea—the core pillars of the global semiconductor supply chain—is critical...
Monday 4 May 2026
Anthropic reportedly in talks with Fractile to buy inference chips amid AI compute crunch
Anthropic has been in talks with Fractile, a London-based startup, to purchase its inference chips for running its AI models more efficiently, as inferential AI tasks have pushed up...
Monday 4 May 2026
AI's 1.6T shift turns InP into optical supply chain bottleneck

The transition from 800G to 1.6T optical modules is no longer an upgrade cycle — it is a physics-driven inflection point.

Monday 4 May 2026
Yageo's Pierre Chen says AI hardware boom is lifting passive component demand

Yageo chairman Pierre Chen said the rise of AI applications is driving stronger demand not only for advanced semiconductors and memory,...

Monday 4 May 2026
Weekly News Roundup: Terafab already affecting wafer fab landscape; Intel launches multi-year reset
Below are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from the week of April 27-May 4, 2026:
Monday 4 May 2026
Samsung pulls ahead of SK Hynix as commodity DRAM prices surge

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are both riding a historic memory upcycle, but a profit gap of about KRW15 trillion (approx. US$10 billion)...

Monday 4 May 2026
Samsung foundry rebound gains steam as 4nm yield reportedly tops 80%
Samsung Electronics' foundry business is drawing renewed attention as its 4nm process reportedly reaches higher utilization, supported by HBM4 base-die demand and orders from global...
Monday 4 May 2026
Commentary: Intel names TSMC as key partner; insider drives its comeback

One year into his tenure, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan struck a markedly different tone on the company's outlook. At the first-quarter 2026 earnings...

Monday 4 May 2026
Taiwan moves to close the gap on semiconductor equipment self-sufficiency
Taiwan's government is advancing its Five Trusted Industry Sectors program, which identifies semiconductors, AI, defense, security, and next-generation communications as the country's...
Monday 4 May 2026
Realtek sees PC revenue growth despite 2026 shipment decline
Realtek's projection of a sharp fall in full-year 2026 PC shipments amid tight memory supply signals wider device-market shifts: global brands are prioritizing mid- and high-end models...
Monday 4 May 2026
TSMC’s 3nm crunch will keep Apple Mac supply constrained until 2nm ramps up
Supply-chain participants said Apple's fiscal second-quarter 2026 performance should be read less as a demand story and more as a reflection of persistent constraints in advanced semiconductor...
Monday 4 May 2026
MediaTek targets US$2B ASIC sales as cloud rivals chase custom-chip capacity
MediaTek has doubled its 2026 revenue target for its application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) business to US$2 billion, up from US$1 billion, as demand for custom chips continues...
Monday 4 May 2026
China curbs memory speculation; DDR4 spot slides, contract prices surge

Spot memory prices surged in early 2026, triggering stockpiling and speculative buying across distribution channels, before reversing from...

Monday 4 May 2026
United Integrated Services targets NT$100 billion revenue in 2026 as TSMC and Micron drive fab demand
United Integrated Services reported a record net profit of NT$9.069 billion (US$287 million) for 2025 and posted NT$20.288 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2026, increases...
Monday 4 May 2026
L&T Semiconductor Technologies joins imec automotive chiplet program, aiming to shape global vehicle electronics
Larsen & Toubro's semiconductor unit, L&T Semiconductor Technologies, has joined imec's Automotive chiplet Program. The participation is expected to drive collaboration on...