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Saturday 6 December 2025
Fabship takes chip manufacturing into orbit as industry eyes Space-based fabs

As artificial intelligence (AI) accelerates the global semiconductor race—and as commercial space activity heats up—the idea...

Friday 5 December 2025
UMC expands US supply chain with 8-inch wafer MOU with Polar Semiconductor
UMC has finalized plans to invest in the US semiconductor manufacturing sector by signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with American foundry Polar Semiconductor on December...
Friday 5 December 2025
AMD's Lisa Su dismisses AI-bubble talk while it prepares taxed MI308 exports to China
At WIRED's Big Interview event in San Francisco, AMD CEO Lisa Su rejected claims that the technology sector is drifting into an AI bubble. Pressed on whether the industry...
Friday 5 December 2025
Broadcom CEO visits South Korea as Samsung HBM4 reportedly obtains Google TPU certification
Update: Samsung has since reached out to DIGITIMES and denied this report. The company also declined to provide more details.
Friday 5 December 2025
Moore Threads soars fivefold on STAR Market debut as US$1.07bn fuels AI chip drive
Moore Threads, billed as China's first domestic GPU stock, debuted on 5 December with a near fivefold jump from its issue price, becoming the STAR Market's largest IPO in 2025. The...
Friday 5 December 2025
Micron exits consumer market with Crucial phase-out amid shift to AI-driven memory demand
Micron announced it will phase out its Crucial brand's consumer memory and SSD products by February 2026, marking its exit from the nearly 30-year-old consumer market. This move reflects...
Friday 5 December 2025
Samsung to command the AI inference market with GDDR7
Samsung Electronics' latest-generation GDDR7 has received the 2025 Korea Technology Awards Presidential Award, and its importance is growing as Nvidia adopts the memory for AI inference...
Friday 5 December 2025
Infineon's GaN patent wall forces global firms to rethink China ties
In the global power-device supply chain, influence is shifting quickly as AI computing demand and geopolitical tension intensify. Although AI data centers urgently need gallium nitride...
Friday 5 December 2025
Commentary: Infineon-Innoscience GaN ruling delivers 'disputed victory' for both sides
The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued its initial determination in Infineon's Section 337 case against China-based GaN supplier Innoscience. In a telling move that...
Friday 5 December 2025
Jensen Huang warns US chip restrictions hand China AI advantage as Belt and Road expands
After meeting US President Donald Trump on December 3, 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang expressed uncertainty about whether China would accept the H200 AI chip if the US were to loosen...
Friday 5 December 2025
China's rare-metal clamp creates a tungsten void; Lianyou builds high-value lines to capture demand
China's rare metal export controls have created a clear global supply gap. Lianyou Metals, a key recycler and smelter of tungsten and cobalt, expects to gain from offshore demand...
Friday 5 December 2025
AI power boom exposes Western GaN dilemma as firms still route through China
TSMC's decision to exit the gallium nitride (GaN) foundry market has set off a major restructuring of the global power device supply chain toward China-independent models and sharpened...
Friday 5 December 2025
Nvidia invests US$2 billion in Synopsys to advance AI chip design
Nvidia has made another major move by investing US$2 billion in Synopsys, one of the world's largest chip design and engineering software companies. The investment will expand Nvidia's...
Friday 5 December 2025
CHPT eyes double-digit growth in 2025 as Wei-kuo Hong becomes corporate representative
Testing interface manufacturer Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) reported that due to seasonal factors at the end of the year, revenue for November 2025 declined both year over...
Friday 5 December 2025
Google TPU surge drives Taiwan's advanced testing boom
Google DeepMind's latest AI model, Gemini 3, has made a stunning debut, outperforming ChatGPT, Claude, and other competitors, signaling a new phase in the generative AI landscape...