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Thursday 13 August 2026
Progate posts record profit on TSMC, Synopsys ecosystem gains
Progate Group Corporation posted record second-quarter and first-half 2026 revenue and profit, as stronger operations and deeper ties with the TSMC, Synopsys, and ASE ecosystems boosted...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
Foxconn's profit growth outpaces capex; no equity raise planned for 2027 buildout
Foxconn told investors on August 12 that its earnings are now growing faster than the spending required to expand AI server capacity — and that it can fund a bigger 2027 buildout...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: Ecosystem not yet ready for co-packaged optics, ASE's Nicole Tien warns

Co-packaged optics has become the inflection point for AI infrastructure, but the industry has not yet built the shared testing standards...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP photonics panel warns CPO packaging is still unsettled as pluggables fade

Pluggable front-panel optics still own the market, but Arista co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim gave them a deadline at an OCP APAC panel...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: Nvidia SVP Shainer on taking CPO to mass production —'can't release something just because it's cool'

Nvidia's Spectrum-6 co-packaged optics (CPO) switches are in production and shipping, Gilad Shainer, senior vice president of networking...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
Nvidia reportedly planning trillion-parameter Nemotron 4 in open-source push

Nvidia is intensifying its open-source strategy through its upcoming trillion-parameter model in the Nemotron 4 family, which is meant...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
CXMT DDR5 yield tops 90%, narrowing gap with Samsung

China's leading DRAM maker CXMT has reportedly raised its DDR5 production yield above 90%, narrowing the gap with Samsung Electronics...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
FocalTech expects demand to improve in the second half of 2026
Touch controller and display driver IC maker FocalTech Systems said it saw revenue regain quarter-on-quarter momentum in the second quarter of 2026 as the 618 shopping festival, new...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: Applied Materials exec calls for hardware co-optimization to solve AI power crisis

Speaking at the OCP APAC Summit in Taipei, Subi Kengeri, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Systems to Materials at Applied...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
SK Hynix reportedly revives China NAND expansion as YMTC and global rivals race to meet AI storage demand

SK Hynix is restarting a long-frozen expansion of its Dalian, China, NAND flash plant, adding capacity that will lift output at the...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
Intel's Israel fab stirs back to life, but case for 14A remains unconfirmed
Intel appears to be restarting work on Fab 38, its long-idle facility in Kiryat Gat, Israel, though how far the project will go — and whether it will ultimately run the company's...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
Japan's US$430B 2040 chip plan hinges on Rapidus 2nm

Japan has drawn up a plan for more than JPY370 trillion (approx. US$2.33 trillion) in combined public and private investment across 17 strategic...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: Microsoft leans on Taiwan supply chain for 'silicon-to-systems' AI buildout

Microsoft sources roughly 70% of the hardware content in its cloud infrastructure from Taiwan and the wider Asia-Pacific region, executives...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
MediaTek, Realtek, Himax, Elan eye optical communications boom in 2027
The use of optical communications in cloud AI data-center interconnect architectures is rising sharply, and Taiwan IC design firms including MediaTek, Realtek Semiconductor, Himax...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
Cash deposits reshape memory supply deals
The global memory industry has embraced a new business model over the past two quarters. Memory manufacturers are not only signing multi-year supply agreements with customers, but...