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Thursday 20 August 2026
Sunplus expects automotive orders to rise in 3Q26 as memory costs threaten demand

Taiwanese IC design house Sunplus Technology expects its automotive orders to strengthen further in the third quarter of 2026, but warned...

Thursday 20 August 2026
Rising demand for CPO, SiPh reshapes semiconductor testing
As chip power consumption, transmission speed and architectural complexity increase, testing has shifted from being a final pre-shipment quality gate to an earlier stage in product...
Thursday 20 August 2026
India's chipmaking push faces its real test after initial wafers: yield
India's semiconductor manufacturing drive will face one of its toughest tests after equipment is installed and production begins: whether new fabs can consistently produce enough working...
Thursday 20 August 2026
AI chip strategies echo StarCraft factions as memory bottleneck reshapes the race

The global semiconductor ecosystem is facing an unprecedented shortage of memory chips, with hardware growth increasingly constrained...

Wednesday 19 August 2026
Manz Asia targets PLP demand with three lines and three sizes
Manz Asia is broadening its push into panel-level packaging (PLP) as interest in the technology continues to rise. General manager Robert Lin said the company has shipped more than...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
SK Hynix to cancel record KRW40tn in shares, signalling confidence in a long AI memory cycle

SK hynix said on August 19 that its board had approved a plan to repurchase and cancel KRW40 trillion (roughly US$29 billion) of its...

Wednesday 19 August 2026
Nvidia H200 chips reach China as imports remain limited
ByteDance and Tencent have each received about 10,000 Nvidia H200 processors in mainland China in recent weeks, the Financial Times reported, marking the clearest sign yet...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
Taiwan seeks shift from drone supplier to strategic partner in entering US market
Industry figures and analysts from Taiwan and the United States gathered on August 19 at an international unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) forum to discuss how Taiwan can move beyond...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
GigaDevice profit surges 1,092% on memory upcycle, niche DRAM and NAND gains
GigaDevice Semiconductor posted record first-half 2026 results, with tight memory supply and rising prices across niche products lifting earnings well beyond its full-year 2025 lev...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
Cerebras' CS-4 rack combines three wafer-scale processors, claims 2x gain over CS-3
Cerebras Systems on Tuesday announced the CS-4, a rack-scale AI accelerator the company says is up to twice as fast as its current CS-3 system and up to 30 times faster than GPU-based...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
Socionext taps Intel 18A-P process for high-performance compute chiplet development
Custom System-on-Chip (SoC) designer Socionext has selected Intel Foundry's 18A-P process node to build its next-generation custom silicon, aiming to accelerate workloads across data...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
PLP splits roles as FOPLP focuses on cost and CoPoS courts AI chips
As AI chips move toward larger dies and higher integration, advanced packaging is shifting from 300mm wafers to square panel manufacturing. In panel-level packaging (PLP), FOPLP and...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
Google and AMD target post-GPU era with Frozen v2 and Taalas
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) recently announced its acquisition of Canadian AI chip startup Taalas to sharpen its competitive edge in AI inference. Taalas' core technology bakes model...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
NSTC's unmanned vehicle revenue tops 40% as semiconductor AOI and CPO fuel growth
Optical imaging technologies company New Smart Technology (NSTC) is moving beyond traditional optical and image inspection into semiconductor high-end automated optical inspection...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
Commentary: Tsinghua Unigroup distances itself from failed US$15 billion Dongguan chip-cloud project

Tsinghua Unigroup's former "chip-to-cloud" expansion strategy unraveled after a debt crisis in 2020 and subsequent bankruptcy restructuring...