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Tuesday 18 August 2026
LG Electronics lands first OSAT order for chip packaging LDI

LG Electronics has secured its first order for laser direct imaging (LDI) equipment used in semiconductor packaging, marking an early...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Rockchip profit jumps 62% as edge AI chips scale across devices

China AIoT chip designer Rockchip posted record first-half 2026 results, with revenue rising 40.6% year on year to CNY2.88 billion (US$427...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
VeriSilicon revenue surges 91% as AI ASIC backlog swells to US$1.85B

VeriSilicon posted record first-half 2026 revenue of CNY1.86 billion (US$276 million), up 91.37% year-on-year, as AI computing demand...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Xintec readies 12-inch IVR backside copper for TSMC's next-gen AI chips

TSMC is expanding cooperation with packaging and testing affiliate Xintec as it develops next-generation power delivery and advanced packaging...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Huawei Hubble builds China's InP optical chip stack for the AI interconnect era
Huawei's semiconductor investment arm is seeing an earlier optical-chip strategy line up with the AI infrastructure boom. Since 2019, Hubble Technology Investment Co. has backed a...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Daxin Materials accelerates semiconductor push with 12 products in mass production
Daxin Materials is expanding its semiconductor footprint, with semiconductor materials accounting for nearly 23% of revenue in the second quarter of 2026. The company expects the segment...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
TSC sees semiconductor material prices rise up to 15% as petrochemical costs squeeze supply

Topco Scientific (TSC) said at its second-quarter 2026 earnings conference that rising upstream petrochemical costs are pushing up...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
SK hynix's No. 2 customer closes in on Nvidia in 1H26 sales

SK hynix's second-largest customer generated KRW17.19 trillion (approx. US$12.4 billion) in sales in the first half of 2026, nearly...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
China AI chip sales scale: Biren's revenue rockets up to 21-fold

Chinese AI chipmaker Biren expects first-half 2026 revenue to reach CNY1.15-1.3 billion (US$171-193 million), up about 1,852% to 2,107%...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
South Korea's Gwangju chip hub faces looming water crunch as experts push underground storage and AI management
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are preparing to invest in four memory fabs in southwestern South Korea, but alongside power infrastructure, the semiconductor industry's uninterrupted...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Nvidia swaps credit support for exclusive chip sales in OpenAI's Ohio data center campus

Nvidia has reached a deal with OpenAI to provide up to US$105 billion in credit guarantees for the AI startup's upcoming 8GW data center...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
AI drives power semiconductors into at least a two-year shortage
The cloud AI data center boom is not close to bursting, according to chip supply-chain players. They say that analog ICs, including power semiconductors, will stay tight for years...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Samsung faces tougher HBM4E test after HBM4 comeback

Samsung Electronics' semiconductor chief has told executives not to treat the company's HBM4 comeback as proof that its recovery is...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Arm faces capacity squeeze as CPU demand tops US$2 billion

Arm Holdings' expansion from asset-light IP licensing into finished data center processors is putting the company into direct competition...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Eiso Enterprise's Guishan plant expansion doubles PCB capacity, eyes AI, aerospace, defense markets

Niche printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturer Eiso Enterprise has officially opened the second-phase expansion of its new plant in...