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Wednesday 2 July 2025
DDR4 memory prices surge 80% amid supply cuts, but rally shows signs of cooling
The DDR4 memory market has experienced significant turbulence over the past month, as major manufacturers discontinue older production lines. This shift has triggered a surge in speculative...
Wednesday 2 July 2025
Intel's Nova Lake-S targets 60% performance leap, aims leadership in high-end computing
Intel's upcoming Nova Lake-S Desktop CPUs are stirring excitement across the tech industry, with early reports hinting at significant performance leaps. Leaked slides from the company...
Tuesday 1 July 2025
UMC floats 6nm ambition as 12nm with Intel inches forward
As China accelerates domestic semiconductor self-sufficiency and backs foundries like SMIC, Taiwan-based United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) faces rising pressure in the mature-node...
Tuesday 1 July 2025
AI smart glasses heat up: Taiwan's chipmakers move in as big tech revives wearables
Meta's surprise success with its Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2024 reignited industry confidence in headworn devices. The result: a renewed wave of investment and innovation from big...
Tuesday 1 July 2025
Memory market rebounds: OSE projects quarterly growth through 2025
Benefiting from a surge of rush orders spurred by US tariffs and steadily rising demand from AI server customers, memory packaging and EMS firm OSE is seeing its business momentum...
Tuesday 1 July 2025
SOCAMM 2: Samsung's silent play to upend AI memory economics
Samsung Electronics is ramping up development of its next-generation SOCAMM memory, which it sees as a potential rival to high-bandwidth memory (HBM) in terms of market opportunity...
Tuesday 1 July 2025
South Korea walks a tight rope as Trump shifts tariff strategy eastward
As the July 9, 2025 deadline approaches for the expiration of the United States' temporary suspension of "reciprocal tariffs," US President Donald Trump appears to be shifting his...
Tuesday 1 July 2025
US semiconductor tariff decision expected by 3Q25, says SAS
Doris Hsu, chairperson of Sino-American Silicon Products Group (SAS), indicated that the US government is likely to take about 90 days to reach a decision regarding semiconductor...
Tuesday 1 July 2025
Wolfspeed moves forward with capital restructuring plan
Wolfspeed, a global leader in silicon carbide technologies, announced on June 30, 2025, that it has made continued progress in executing its previously announced Restructuring Support...
Tuesday 1 July 2025
Chipmakers brace for fallout as US tariff clock ticks down

As the Trump administration's reciprocal tariff extension is approaching the deadline on July 9, Taiwanese chipmakers remain cautious...

Tuesday 1 July 2025
Silicon Motion taps MediaTek veteran as SVP
Silicon Motion Technology Corporation has appointed Jeffrey Ju, former co-chief operating officer at MediaTek, as its senior vice president of platform and strategy. The company aims...
Tuesday 1 July 2025
GaN's paradox: surging demand, sinking profits
Under pressure from low-cost competition in China, many application sectors are struggling to turn a profit. Recently, the compound semiconductor gallium nitride (GaN) industry has...
Tuesday 1 July 2025
Loongson's indigenous CPUs offer China-built alternative to Intel for servers, AI
Loongson has launched its next-generation processors at the 2025 Product Launch and User Conference in Beijing, introducing chips built on its proprietary LoongArch instruction set...
Tuesday 1 July 2025
Ericsson expands Bengaluru R&D to boost ASIC development in India
Ericsson announced an expansion of its Research and Development (R&D) team in Bengaluru, India, focusing on ASIC development, aiming to leverage local expertise and enhance Ericsson's...
Monday 30 June 2025
Nvidia taps top Chinese AI researchers in bid to expand deep learning team
US semiconductor giant Nvidia has recruited two leading artificial intelligence (AI) specialists from China as part of its ongoing efforts to broaden its research team, according...