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Tuesday 15 September 2026
Interview: Corning sees CPO, glass core as new semiconductor battlegrounds

As artificial intelligence applications accelerate, surging global semiconductor demand is pushing advanced packaging, co-packaged optics...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
Micron's record Taiwan payout fails to end union demand for 15% of profits
Micron Technology's Taiwan union is pressing for a permanent profit-sharing formula despite the US memory chipmaker announcing its largest employee rewards package to date, leaving...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Beyond H100: China's GPU makers chase scale, not just parity

China's domestic GPU industry is entering a tougher phase: matching high-end accelerator performance is no longer enough. Vendors must...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: AI sends the semiconductor market toward US$1.6T, with memory doing the heavy lifting
DIGITIMES Intelligence forecasts the global semiconductor market will expand from US$791.7 billion in 2025 to US$1.6 trillion in 2026, representing year-on-year growth of 109.1%.
Tuesday 15 September 2026
China elevates HBM and HBF in five-year plan, opening a new front in AI memory
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) have jointly released the 15th Five-Year Plan for the Development...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Samsung's Cheonan plant reallocates packaging capacity from Exynos to HBM
Samsung Electronics is accelerating the restructuring of its semiconductor packaging footprint. Its Cheonan facility is gradually phasing out packaging operations for the Exynos mobile...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Global semiconductor revenue hits record US$425B in 2Q26
Global semiconductor revenue reached a record US$425 billion in the second quarter of 2026, surging 31.4% quarter-over-quarter, as AI demand and strong memory pricing continued to...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix diverge on cell design for sub-10nm DRAM in 2028

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are preparing to move DRAM below the 10nm threshold in 2028, with the two memory makers pursuing different...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
GlobalWafers partially resumes Italy plant, restarts EPI production
GlobalWafers announced on September 14 that recovery work is continuing at its Novara plant in Italy following a fire that broke out on the facility's 8-inch line on July 20, 2026,...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Sivers Semiconductors positions laser arrays as solution to copper's limits

At this year's China International Optoelectronic Expo (CIOE), Sivers Semiconductor brought two products to its booth that trace the...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
AI server tracker: CCL makers outpace PCB and substrate suppliers as server demand grows
Taiwan's copper-clad laminate (CCL) makers significantly outpaced printed circuit board (PCB) and IC substrate suppliers in August, as stronger server demand, pricing and product-mix...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
TSMC 3nm, 2nm, and CoWoS stay tight as AWS, MediaTek, TPU shift capacity
TSMC's 3nm, 2nm, and CoWoS advanced packaging capacity remained in short supply in late 2026's third quarter, as changes in major customer orders and front-end and back-end supply...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Chinese chip tools reach 35% of equipment installed at local fabs
Chinese-made semiconductor equipment accounted for roughly 35% of tools installed at fabs in China in 2025, up from about 25% a year earlier, as domestic suppliers gain ground in key...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Inside CIOE: takeaways from China's biggest optoelectronics show
Last week, from September 9 to 11, thousands of vendors gathered for an enormous trade show in the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen. At the China International Optoelectronic Expo (CIOE),...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
XPeng's Turing chip expands beyond cars
XPeng Motors is extending its self-developed Turing AI chip from intelligent electric vehicles (EVs) into humanoid robots, broadening the processor's role in the company's Physical...