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Monday 1 December 2025

Commentary: TSMC veteran's Intel defection exposes cracks in Taiwan's silicon shield

Since April 5, 2025, a series of geopolitical tensions have unfolded—from US President Donald Trump's remarks and reciprocal tariffs to Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's...

Monday 1 December 2025

Export controls drive CSCC to advance domestic compound semiconductor materials

Power demands of AI servers are boosting growth in the power semiconductor market. However, Taiwan's advanced carbon materials have long relied on imports, and China's recent graphite...

Sunday 30 November 2025

Samsung reportedly nears December verdict on Nvidia HBM4 tests

Samsung Electronics is reportedly nearing the final stage of qualification tests for its HBM4 memory chips with Nvidia, with a December decision that could mark one of the company's...

Sunday 30 November 2025

Taiwan's vertical integration cluster advantage limits industry relocation risk

Amid reports that Taiwan plans to invest US$400 billion in the US to secure better tariff treatment, avoid overlapping tax rates, and reduce Section 232 impacts under the Trump administration,...

Saturday 29 November 2025

Tech giants lead energy self-sufficiency push

As AI computing power surges exponentially, electricity has become a critical strategic resource for the tech industry. With traditional power supply models struggling to meet the...

Saturday 29 November 2025

CXMT's high-end DRAM push narrows China's gap with South Korea to one year

China's leading DRAM maker CXMT has unveiled new DDR5 and LPDDR5X chips with performance now viewed as comparable to Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. The launch has unsettled South...

Saturday 29 November 2025

Taiwan left out of supercapacitors while AI server capacitor boom builds

As the surge in AI compute drives a shift in data-center power design, backup battery units (BBUs) have secured adoption from at least three cloud service providers, boosting their...

Friday 28 November 2025

Samsung races to seal HBM4 deal with Nvidia, targets early 2026 shipments

Samsung Electronics is reportedly nearing a deal with Nvidia on 2026 HBM4 pricing, aiming to match SK Hynix's rates as the company accelerates capacity expansion and reorganizes its...

Friday 28 November 2025

AI workload surge creates opening for alternative memory and chiplet technologies, expert says

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) workloads is forcing a fundamental redesign of data center infrastructure, driving historic memory shortages and opening a rare...

Friday 28 November 2025

Chinese analog chipmaker 3Peak to acquire Aura Semiconductor in major industry tie-up

3Peak, a leading Chinese analog chipmaker, plans to acquire Ningbo Aura Semiconductor through new share issuance and/or cash. The move...

Friday 28 November 2025

DRAM and NAND spike 100%+: triggering 2025's toughest pricing crisis for electronics makers

A global surge in memory prices is disrupting the electronics supply chain, creating what manufacturers describe as 2025's toughest pricing season. DRAM and NAND costs are rising at...

Friday 28 November 2025

Meta and Nvidia reportedly push to integrate GPUs into HBM for AI boost

To enhance artificial intelligence (AI) performance, Meta and Nvidia are advancing plans to embed GPU compute cores directly into the base die of high-bandwidth memory (HBM). This...

Friday 28 November 2025

Cheng Mei delivers first CoPoS equipment to ASE

Competing with leading players, Cheng Mei Instrument Technology recently delivered the first CoPoS measurement and inspection equipment to the ASE Group, aiming to break KLA Corporation's...

Friday 28 November 2025

Rapidus reportedly plans second Hokkaido fab for 1.4nm chips as funding gap widens, but company pushes back on timeline

Rapidus plans to begin construction on a second fabrication plant in Chitose, Hokkaido, in fiscal 2027 to produce 1.4nm and eventually...

Friday 28 November 2025

Google's TPU strategy mounts fresh challenge to Nvidia's GPU lead

Google's expanding Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) strategy is emerging as a serious challenge to Nvidia's long-running dominance in AI accelerators,...

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