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Friday 30 October 2026
Amazon 3Q26 earnings call: TSMC capacity behind AWS's choice to start selling its own AI chips
Amazon Web Services (AWS) saw its revenue grow 39.3% year-over-year in the third quarter of 2026. That was the cloud unit's fastest pace in nearly five years and its sixth straight...
Friday 30 October 2026
HBM4 cycle faces squeeze as capacity, specs become critical
AI chipmakers' rising memory performance requirements are accelerating the shift from sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM4) to HBM4E, according to analysis of the South Korean...
Friday 30 October 2026
Taiwan manufacturing demand rises as bank property loans decline
Strong demand for AI applications and cloud services is driving investment in high-performance computing chips and AI servers, prompting Taiwan manufacturers to expand capacity and...
Friday 30 October 2026
Episil-Precision fire hits under 10% of capacity, 6- and 8-inch lines to restart within two weeks
Semiconductor epitaxy maker Episil-Precision said a localized fire broke out on October 28 at its plant on Innovation First Road in Hsinchu Science Park, but caused no injuries or...
Friday 30 October 2026
STMicroelectronics rides AI and satellite demand, but margin recovery awaits fab overhaul
STMicroelectronics (ST) reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of US$3.76 billion, above the midpoint of its guidance, as AI data center and low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite demand lifted...
Friday 30 October 2026
Anthropic's multi-platform AI strategy pressures Nvidia pricing power
Anthropic's "multi-platform resource pool" strategy, disclosed in its S-1 filing, is sending an important signal to the AI chip industry. The company uses Amazon Trainium, Google tensor...
Friday 30 October 2026
Beyond nanometers: AI forces Taiwan's semiconductor ecosystem to compete at system level
Taiwan's semiconductor rise was built on a powerful division of labor: world-class IC design feeding increasingly advanced foundries, supported by packaging, testing, and an unusually...
Friday 30 October 2026
Intel increases equipment orders as server demand exceeds supply
Intel's server expansion is drawing equipment and materials suppliers into a capacity push, but the benefits will arrive in stages. Management's October 29 earnings-call comments identified...
Friday 30 October 2026
Eternal Materials posts record revenue in advanced packaging, precision equipment
Eternal Materials posted earnings before taxes (EBT) of NT$388 million (approx. US$11.92 million) in September 2026, surging 158.28% year-over-year and up 44.47% from August, as revenue...
Friday 30 October 2026
Sandisk's data center expansion widens the gap with consumer storage
Sandisk's latest quarter showed enterprise storage as a stronger growth engine while its consumer business contracted. This divergence is central to interpreting the company's expansion:...
Friday 30 October 2026
Amazon's cloud acceleration lifts profitability as AI spending absorbs cash
Amazon's third quarter showed its cloud expansion translating into stronger operating profitability, while the cash demands of building AI infrastructure kept rising. The result sharpens...
Friday 30 October 2026
Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance reportedly seek 10-year DRAM deals
Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance are reportedly seeking long-term server DRAM supply agreements with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, with some requests extending through 2035, as...
Friday 30 October 2026
STMicroelectronics' recovery gains momentum, but power chips lag
STMicroelectronics is turning a demand recovery into stronger factory economics, with communications and embedded-processing products driving the improvement. Yet the widening loss...
Friday 30 October 2026
Intel slashes 18A costs by 40% as foundry posts US$1.9 billion loss
Intel is cutting manufacturing costs for its newest processors, but the gains are reaching individual products and its foundry business at different speeds. Its October 29 earnings...
Friday 30 October 2026
Intel's AI PCs are selling, but the wider PC recovery is still missing
Intel's growing AI PC sales are coexisting with a shrinking PC market, as memory constraints weaken purchases and computer makers reduce processor inventories. The distinction matters...