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Tuesday 25 November 2025
Taiwan urged to tighten foreign investment reviews amid global tech scrutiny
The 29th International Conference on Technology Law, hosted by National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) from November 20–21, 2025, spotlighted Taiwan's role in global...
Tuesday 25 November 2025
MediaTek and Qualcomm face 2nm, memory cost pressures driving flagship SoC price hikes
Leading smartphone chip designers Qualcomm and MediaTek are reportedly set to increase prices for their 2026 flagship mobile SoCs due to dual pressures from advanced wafer foundry...
Tuesday 25 November 2025
Samsung vanishes from Baidu's AI chip roadmap amid rising geopolitical tensions
Samsung Electronics' long-running foundry partnership with Baidu is facing renewed questions after the Chinese tech giant unveiled a five-year roadmap for its Kunlun AI chips without...
Tuesday 25 November 2025
ASE commits US$133 million to new Taiwan packaging plants to meet AI chip demand
ASE Technology Holding announced it will invest more than NT$4.2 billion (US$133.67 million) to acquire a new factory in the Zhongli District of Taoyuan, Taiwan, and simultaneously...
Tuesday 25 November 2025
DRAM and NAND shortages intensify, forcing major manufacturers to ration shipments

Simon Chen, chairman and CEO of ADATA Technology, stated that demand for DRAM and NAND flash has far outpaced production, with DDR5 prices...

Tuesday 25 November 2025
YMTC rockets to 13% shipment share in NAND Flash, Micron now in sight
Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp (YMTC) has strengthened its position in the global NAND Flash market, exceeding a 10% shipment share in the first quarter of 2025 and rising to 13%...
Tuesday 25 November 2025
Commentary: SoftBank folds Ampere into its AI stack, turning up pressure on x86
Bloomberg reports that the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has closed its antitrust review of SoftBank Group's planned US$6.5 billion acquisition of US chip designer Ampere...
Tuesday 25 November 2025
China edges toward self-reliant robot compute with Black Sesame's SesameX
Amid rising US–China tech tensions and China's "Robot Plus" initiative, humanoid and service robots have emerged as the next major strategic sectors. Yet even as China's humanoid...
Tuesday 25 November 2025
Taiwanese MEMS probe card makers to double capacity in 2026
The growing adoption of advanced processes below 3nm for AI GPUs and AI ASIC chips is driving a surge in test points and shrinking pitch sizes during the chip probing (CP) stage....
Tuesday 25 November 2025
ShunSin builds full-stack optical transceiver modules and pilots CSP AI data centers
With the wave of generative AI applications driving rapid upgrades in high-performance computing architectures and data center networks, market demand for ultra-high bandwidth, lower...
Tuesday 25 November 2025
Stratio eyes mobile 'fourth lens' with low-cost germanium SWIR sensor
South Korean startup Stratio has developed a mass-producible short-wave infrared (SWIR) imaging sensor based on germanium, costing just 1% of comparable market products. By integrating...
Tuesday 25 November 2025
Semco’s 2026 ABF capacity is fully booked as Big Tech snaps up supply
Samsung Electro-Mechanics (Semco) has reportedly locked in supply contracts for ABF substrates with major technology companies such as Alphabet, Tesla, Apple, Amazon Web Services,...
Monday 24 November 2025
South Korea seeks joint strategy with Taiwan on US chip tariffs
South Korea's trade chief said Seoul sees room to coordinate with Taiwan on upcoming US chip tariffs, signaling potential cooperation between the two Asian semiconductor powerhouses...
Monday 24 November 2025
DDR5 breakthrough: CXMT showcases 8000Mbps memory at IC China 2025

China's memory maker CXMT used this year's IC China 2025 expo to debut its new DDR5 product line, signalling its most assertive push...

Monday 24 November 2025
Samsung reportedly converts NAND lines to DRAM to meet surging AI memory demand
Samsung Electronics is reportedly preparing to convert portions of its NAND flash production lines in Pyeongtaek and Hwaseong into DRAM facilities as the company races to meet surging...