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Monday 29 December 2025
Silicon photonics set to make commercial breakthrough in 2026
Data centers are entering a new phase of infrastructure upgrades in 2026, feeding off generative AI under Nvidia's leadership. While silicon photonics (SiPh) and co-packaged optics...
Monday 29 December 2025
Guoxin Micro and CATL form joint venture to spin off automotive chip business
Chinaese semiconductor supplier Guoxin Micro has moved to spin off its automotive controller chip business into a new company. It has brought in a CATL subsidiary as a strategic shareholder...
Monday 29 December 2025
Tariff wars and AI demand reshape electronics supply chain structure in 2025
In 2025, the global electronics supply chain transformed due to rising demand for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC), boosting servers, chips, and cooling...
Monday 29 December 2025
India roundup: Foxconn brings China strategy to India as Japan firms deepen chip ties
Japanese firms like Rohm and AOI Electronics built partnerships with Indian partners. Foxconn is mimicking its strategy in China, setting up a factory city in India.
Sunday 28 December 2025
TSMC operations stable after magnitude 7.0 quake, Taiwan's third largest in 26 years

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) confirmed that its personnel are safe and facility safety systems are functioning normally following...

Sunday 28 December 2025
Tatun Electric eyes AIDC, ultra-high-voltage markets as power transmission bottleneck looms
Market attention in the modern AI computing power competitive landscape has mainly focused on semiconductor chip upgrades. But according to Chih-Ming Lin, chairman of Tatun Electric,...
Sunday 28 December 2025
South Korea's AI chips struggle beyond cost advantage
South Korea's drive to build a domestic artificial intelligence semiconductor industry is hitting a key constraint. Despite gains in power efficiency and pricing, industry executives...
Sunday 28 December 2025
TorchTPU collaboration makes software compatibility the new AI hardware battleground
Google is advancing its TorchTPU initiative to optimize PyTorch performance on its proprietary TPU chips, as reported by Reuters. This effort, undertaken in collaboration...
Saturday 27 December 2025
Chipbond finds new growth engine in silicon photonics
With panel industry demand remaining weak, display driver IC testing and packaging specialist Chipbond is pursuing a second growth engine and has formally entered the silicon photonics...
Saturday 27 December 2025
EV slump hits Taiwan's auto PCB suppliers
Taiwan's automotive printed circuit board suppliers are facing mounting shipment pressure as global vehicle demand remains weak into early 2025, with consumers and automakers hesitating...
Friday 26 December 2025
Japan quadruples chip and physical AI spending, deepens state backing for Rapidus
Japan is preparing a major expansion of state support for advanced semiconductors and artificial intelligence, with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) set to nearly...
Friday 26 December 2025
AMD wins major Alibaba MI308 chip order to challenge Nvidia H200
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently received US President Donald Trump's approval for the H200 to return to the China market. Shipments to Chinese customers were reportedly fast-tracked...
Friday 26 December 2025
SMEE wins China lithography order, yet ASML still controls advanced-node tools
A disclosure on China's government procurement platform shows that Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment (SMEE) has won a contract to supply a step-and-scan lithography system valued...
Friday 26 December 2025
Winbond prepares 16nm 8Gb DDR4 mass production for 2026 shipment upgrade
Memory maker Winbond Electronics has recently continued to expand capital expenditures by increasing capacity for 16nm and DDR4 DRAM. As inventories of legacy DDR3 products decrease,...
Friday 26 December 2025
MediaTek and DENSO team up to develop custom automotive SoC for advanced driver-assistance systems
MediaTek and DENSO said they have entered into a joint development effort to create a custom automotive system-on-chip (SoC) for advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and in-vehicle...