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Tuesday 27 October 2026
Tamil Nadu adds independent chip subsidy route as Indian states vie for investment
India's semiconductor drive has largely been led by New Delhi, which selects projects for large central incentives while state governments add their own packages of land, infrastructure...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
OPTOELEC seeks AI data center orders as Himax advances CPO optics
South Korean optics maker Optoelec is seeing growing interest from AI data center customers as it seeks to expand its wafer-level optics (WLO) business into high-speed optical communications,...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Amkor turns to customer prepayments as global packaging investment accelerates
Amkor Technology is using customer prepayments and longer-term commitments to support an expanding manufacturing network across the US, South Korea, and Vietnam, as demand for advanced...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Cadence bets on its own chip design AI models as Synopsys teams up with OpenAI
Cadence Design Systems is betting that chipmakers will want AI models trained on its own design tools and run wherever customers choose. That puts it on a different route from rival...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Cadence says chip design demand is broadening beyond AI as analysts test margins, rival targets
Cadence Design Systems used its third-quarter earnings call to argue that demand for chip design tools is no longer tied only to the AI hardware buildout. It pointed to analog and...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Cadence raises 2026 outlook as AI design demand drives record backlog
Cadence Design Systems' third quarter suggests demand for chip design tools is still rising, with AI-driven design work showing up in both revenue and backlog, while the cost of buying...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Amkor gross margin climbs to 18.3% as computing mix offsets consumer weakness
Amkor Technology's latest quarter shows how a shift toward advanced packaging can strengthen profitability even when overall sales barely grow. Computing and automotive demand lifted...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Cheng Mei develops materials for advanced packaging glass substrates
As advanced packaging shifts toward large-size glass substrates, Cheng Mei Materials Technology is developing materials to address warpage, heat resistance, and drilling challenges...
Monday 26 October 2026
Interview: From afterthought to bottleneck, circuit boards move to the heart of AI hardware
In the era of AI and high-performance computing (HPC), the once-separate worlds of chip design, packaging, and circuit boards are converging. According to the Global Electronics Association,...
Monday 26 October 2026
Taiwan wafer-testing supplier Hermes Testing Solutions commits more than US$215 million to advanced chip testing expansion
Hermes Testing Solutions Inc. (HTSI), a semiconductor wafer-testing solutions provider, is expanding its Taiwan operations. Its board approved budget authorisations on October 22 for...
Monday 26 October 2026
Podcast highlights: TSMC's 3nm demand story, Samsung HBM shift, and A14 ramp
Following TSMC's third-quarter 2026 earnings call, DIGITIMES analyst Luke Lin provided in a podcast additional analysis of several details that received limited attention in market...
Monday 26 October 2026
India roundup: India's tech build-out opens new markets, but foreign suppliers are first in line
India's tech push opens markets unevenly: foreign suppliers get first crack at Tata's fab, Lam courts local vendors, Jio's IPO tests its 5G pitch, and CleanMax powers AI data cente...
Sunday 25 October 2026
Nvidia unveils OOI CPO prototype for post-2028 AI needs
Nvidia has unveiled a prototype of its next-generation co-packaged optics (CPO) technology, Optics-on-Interposer (OOI), at SEMICON West 2026. The design moves the optical engine from...
Sunday 25 October 2026
Texas Instruments sees up to $1,000 in chip content per humanoid robot as analog supply tightens
Texas Instruments (TI) held its latest earnings call this week, projecting fourth-quarter 2026 revenue of US$5.8 billion to US$6.3 billion. The midpoint of its guidance is broadly...
Sunday 25 October 2026
Tesla-SpaceX merger tests whether Musk's technology empire is worth more together
Since Elon Musk publicly confirmed that Tesla and SpaceX are evaluating a potential merger, the prospect has stirred widespread speculation over what could become the largest corporate...