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Friday 8 May 2026
AI infrastructure spending just doubled an IC distributor's revenue in one year
WT Microelectronics posted a record quarterly net profit in the first quarter of 2026, driven by an explosive surge in data center and server revenue that the company attributed to...
Friday 8 May 2026
Samsung workers seek bigger share of AI profits as strike looms

Samsung Electronics is facing mounting pressure from workers seeking a larger share of the AI-driven semiconductor boom, as unions threaten...

Friday 8 May 2026
Commentary: Trump-Xi Summit puts Taiwan's chip industry at center of global politics

US President Donald Trump is expected to visit Beijing on May 14-15 for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. If the trip proceeds...

Friday 8 May 2026
Topco hits record 1Q26 revenue, profit on semiconductor materials demand
Topco Scientific reported record first-quarter 2026 revenue and profit on May 7, driven by strong demand for photoresists, photomask substrates, and silicon wafers used in advanced...
Friday 8 May 2026
PMIC supplier GMT bets on volume growth over higher prices
Power-management chip maker Global Mixed-Mode Technology, or GMT, said demand conditions in the first quarter of 2026 were stronger than expected, helped by an improved product mix...
Friday 8 May 2026
M31 weathers project delays as royalties and advanced-node demand signal recovery
M31 Technology reported a first-quarter 2026 revenue decline as contract timing disruptions pushed some North American advanced-process projects into the next quarter, but the company...
Friday 8 May 2026
BenQ Materials bets on CPO and microLED amid optical communications push
BenQ Materials is seeing its diversification begin to pay off as it pushes into co-packaged optics (CPO) and microLED. The polarizer maker said its subsidiary Cenefom's chemical mechanical...
Friday 8 May 2026
Samsung reportedly testing 1.4nm Exynos 2800 with 96MB cache

Samsung is reportedly testing a next-generation Exynos processor that could push the company's chip ambitions beyond smartphones, with...

Friday 8 May 2026
Transcend 1Q26 profit jumps 20-fold as gross margin hits 76%
Memory module maker Transcend Information posted strong financial results in the first quarter of 2026, with gross margin reaching 76.39%, comparable to levels seen at major international...
Friday 8 May 2026
Anpec plans midyear 15% price hike to protect PMIC margins
Taiwan power management IC (PMIC) maker Anpec Electronics recently said its 2026 growth momentum will mainly rely on demand in non-PC applications to offset declines in PC-related...
Friday 8 May 2026
Memory shortages choke AI storage orders, says Hitachi Vantara

AI-driven demand is turning storage into one of the hottest segments in enterprise infrastructure, but tightening memory supply and rising...

Friday 8 May 2026
Zhen Ding Tech's AI push gains traction: server, IC substrate sales surge to records
High-end AI-related products continued to drive revenue growth at PCB maker Zhen Ding Tech (ZDT) in April, with server and optical communication revenue surging more than 230% year...
Friday 8 May 2026
Taiwan government expands science parks as US-China tech war drags on
Taiwan's government decided five years ago to expand science park development after concluding that the US-China tech war would not end soon, laying the groundwork for the Third Kaohsiung...
Friday 8 May 2026
TSMC eyes bigger US investment; Arizona chip expansion accelerates
Taiwan remained the largest foreign delegation at the US Department of Commerce's SelectUSA Investment Summit for a third straight year, with TSMC indicating it may further expand...
Thursday 7 May 2026
Taiwan freezes trading in MediaTek as AI chip rally pushes valuation past US$165 billion
Taiwan's stock exchange placed MediaTek — the chip designer behind silicon used in Samsung phones, Chromebooks, and a growing share of AI hardware — under trading restrictions...