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Tuesday 27 October 2026
US designates helium as critical material amid Middle East supply shock
As military conflict in the Middle East cripples global energy infrastructure, the United States is emerging as the critical anchor for the world's high-tech manufacturing sector....
Tuesday 27 October 2026
AMD, Nvidia target substrate capacity amid 4x expansion constraints
AMD and Nvidia have separately invested in supply-chain capacity expansion, making substrates, packaging, and testing key priorities as AI demand diversifies. The moves show that chipmakers...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Fujifilm expands South Korean capacity to meet AI chip demand
Fujifilm Electronic Materials is expanding its advanced semiconductor materials footprint in South Korea by increasing extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photoresist capacity in Pyeongtaek...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Nvidia says GPUs last 8 years, unlocking AI financing
After the GTC Berlin conference, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Silicon Valley technology investor Gavin Baker spoke with Yahoo Finance for about half an hour. Huang confirmed...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Applied Materials to raise Besi stake to 20% as hybrid-bonding orders surge
Applied Materials plans to increase its stake in Dutch semiconductor equipment maker BE Semiconductor Industries (Besi) to approximately 20% from 9%, deepening its involvement in advanced...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Nvidia's Berlin keynote highlights AI scaling challenges in Europe
Nvidia opened GTC 2026 in Berlin on October 21 with a keynote highlighting AI infrastructure, security architecture, and Physical AI, while a Greenpeace protest briefly interrupted...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix eye 2Q27 shipments of 8-layer HBM4 to Nvidia
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are targeting the second quarter of 2027 to begin volume shipments of eight-layer HBM4 memory to Nvidia, ZDNet Korea reported on October 26,...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Inside SKT’s push to turn SK Hynix’s fabs into an AI business
South Korean telecommunications provider SK Telecom (SKT) has reportedly established Hy-TF, a task force dedicated to AI collaboration with SK Hynix, to upgrade its digital-twin and...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
China supply-chain price hikes strain domestic demand
China’s semiconductor and electronics supply chains are reporting a wave of price increases, from Goke Microelectronics raising quotes for hybrid-packaged memory products to...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Vietnam's first fab reportedly faces doubts over 2027 target
Vietnam's first wafer fab may miss its 2027 trial-production target, Reuters reported on October 26, citing concerns about project execution and equipment procurement. Developer...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
DRAM price gains fall short as supply shrinks up to 50%
DRAM price growth has slowed sharply in the fourth quarter of 2026, but severe supply shortages are intensifying as manufacturers continue to restrict shipments. Industry sources expect...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
AI data center boom risks squeezing power chip supplies for auto, electronics
The rapid expansion of AI data centers is driving demand beyond GPUs, memory chips, and advanced packaging. As power consumption in GPU clusters rises, data centers need not only more...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Weekly news roundup: iPhone Duo shipment target revised upward amid display issues
This week's coverage highlights shifting technology supply chains and rising demand across foldable smartphones, memory, energy storage, robotics, and AI infrastructure. Apple lifted...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
HCLTech and Rapidus open India centers to support semiconductor engineering
HCLTech and Japan's Rapidus have inaugurated development centers in Bengaluru and Hubli, India, expanding their semiconductor engineering collaboration across Asia. The facilities...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Anthropic's IPO filing puts TSMC, HBM, direct leasing at the center of AI compute risk
In its preliminary IPO registration statement filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Anthropic describes how much of its capacity depends on a small group of chip and...