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Friday 28 August 2026
Samsung diverges from TSMC on FOPLP: retains 415×510mm panel size, targets 2028 mass production
Samsung Electronics' packaging technology lead, Lee Hee-seok, outlined the company's advanced semiconductor packaging roadmap at Advanced Semiconductor Packaging & Chiplet Show...
Friday 28 August 2026
Long-term contracts tie up InP capacity due to data center optics demand
Compound semiconductor supply-chain players say China has recently eased some substrate export controls, but the upgrade of high-frequency transmission in AI data centers toward 200G...
Friday 28 August 2026
Exclusive: IC design faces wire bonding bottleneck in 2027
Surging AI chip demand continues to outstrip TSMC's advanced packaging capacity. At the same time, massive AI server shipments are driving up demand for CPUs, networking equipment,...
Friday 28 August 2026
SK Hynix weighs closer ties with Kioxia in NAND
SK Hynix is weighing closer cooperation with Japan's Kioxia Holdings in NAND flash, extending the strategic message from its newly launched US HBM expansion into a memory segment where...
Friday 28 August 2026
YMTC builds China chip supply chain around Wuhan fabs with 'Wutong Tree' Plan
Competition in China's memory sector is extending beyond wafer capacity and process technology into semiconductor equipment, materials and components. YMTC is expanding its domestic...
Friday 28 August 2026
Vanguard says Taoyuan fab fire did not disrupt production
Vanguard International Semiconductor said a fire broke out late on August 27 on the roof of its Wafer Fab 3 in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, but the incident caused no major impact on production...
Friday 28 August 2026
Lam Research breaks ground on Oregon lab expansion for AI chip development
Lam Research has begun work on a new Oregon research lab as part of a more than US$3 billion global investment aimed at speeding development of advanced AI chips. The expansion could...
Friday 28 August 2026
Renesas opens physical AI, robotics lab in Beijing
Renesas Electronics has opened a physical AI and robotics lab in Beijing, a move that could speed the development of safer, smarter machines for factories, logistics, and homes worldwide...
Friday 28 August 2026
Marvell raises its outlook twice in two quarters as custom silicon, scale-up optics broaden
Marvell Technology used its second-quarter fiscal 2027 earnings call on August 27 to lift its revenue outlook for a second consecutive quarter, and the composition of the raise says...
Friday 28 August 2026
Kioxia, Sandisk plan more than US$31 billion in Japan investments
A major chipmaking investment in Japan could ripple through global supply chains as demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure accelerates. Kioxia and Sandisk say the spending...
Friday 28 August 2026
SK Hynix breaks ground on US$4 billion Indiana plant that will package, not make, HBM
SK hynix broke ground on August 27 on a US$4 billion advanced packaging plant in Purdue Research Park, its first US high-bandwidth memory (HBM) site.
Friday 28 August 2026
Marvell revenue climbs 37% to a record US$2.74 billion on data center demand
Marvell Technology's second quarter of fiscal 2027 was the point at which its data center business stopped being the growth engine attached to a diversified infrastructure chipmaker...
Friday 28 August 2026
Samsung absorbs memory costs to chase smartphone crown
Global smartphone shipments are set to shrink sharply in 2026 as soaring memory and core component prices hit the market, but Samsung Electronics is moving in the opposite direction...
Friday 28 August 2026
Taiwan's next biotech prescription: AI drug discovery, smart devices, biomedical chips
Taiwan is charting a new direction for its biomedical industry, drawing on its strengths in semiconductors, AI hardware, precision manufacturing and healthcare. AI-powered drug discovery,...
Friday 28 August 2026
IntelliEPI says Japan substrate outage hit 2Q26 revenue
IntelliEPI said on August 27 that revenue in the second quarter of 2026 was pressured after a Japanese substrate supplier shut down for nearly three weeks during the Golden Week holiday,...