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Thursday 26 February 2026
Nvidia's strong quarter and outsized guidance soothe fears of an AI investment bubble
On February 25, Nvidia's blowout fourth-quarter results and bullish fiscal-2027 guidancehelped dispel recent market worries that the AI spending boom may be an unsustainable bubble,...
Wednesday 25 February 2026
UMC streamlines leadership: Jason Wang named CEO as co-president model concludes
Leading global semiconductor foundry, United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), has announced on February 25, 2026, a significant restructuring of its executive leadership structu...
Wednesday 25 February 2026
IC design house Raydium flags DDI off-season; large-panel orders advance on early stocking

Display driver IC supplier Raydium reported its 2025 financial results, posting full-year revenue of NT$22.4 billion (approx. US$715 million),...

Wednesday 25 February 2026
Without memory chips, Korea's semiconductor edge over China erodes, KIET warns
As the AI era accelerates, South Korea's competitive position is weakening relative to China. Even semiconductors, long a pillar of the Korean economy, are now assessed as being in...
Wednesday 25 February 2026
Unimicron names UMC's SC Chien chair in substrate strategy shift
Unimicron held an investor conference on 25 February 2026. A day earlier, its board approved the appointment of UMC co-president SC Chien as chairman and group chief strategy officer...
Wednesday 25 February 2026
SK Hynix signals seller's market as memory prices set to climb all year
SK Hynix, one of the world's top three memory chip makers, told investors on a recent Goldman Sachs conference call that the global memory market has fully shifted to a "seller's market,"...
Wednesday 25 February 2026
Chart: Why Taiwan's OSAT sector just flipped the switch

The latest January revenue data for Taiwan's Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test (OSAT) sector—disclosed this month—confirms...

Wednesday 25 February 2026
TSMC's record profits signal AI boom far from over
Blowout earnings from TSMC in 2025 — and an even more bullish outlook for 2026 — have reignited investor enthusiasm across the global semiconductor sector. Attention is...
Wednesday 25 February 2026
Unimicron's 4Q25 profit surpasses combined earnings of first 3 quarters; 2026 capex raised to NT$34 billion
Given the steady demand for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) chips, Unimicron stated that orders for IC substrates and PCBs have picked up. This has not only steadily increased...
Wednesday 25 February 2026
Chinese IC design house hit by open-source license dispute after GitHub freezes code
China IC design firm Rockchip is facing an open-source licensing dispute after GitHub reportedly froze code repositories linked to its projects, drawing attention across the semiconductor...
Wednesday 25 February 2026
Sigurd invests NT$1.54B to acquire Unimicron's Hukou plant amid strong AI, ASIC demand
Taiwan's IC packaging and testing supply chain is accelerating expansion as Sigurd announced it will invest NT$1.54 billion (approx. US$49M) to purchase a factory in the Hukou Industrial...
Wednesday 25 February 2026
China targets fivefold jump in advanced chip output to fuel AI expansion
China is preparing a fivefold increase in domestic advanced logic chip output within one to two years to support its expanding AI computing infrastructure, according to people familiar...
Wednesday 25 February 2026
Walsin Technology boosts Matsuo Electric stake to expand product lines
Walsin Technology Corporation announced plans to invest JPY508 million (US$3.27 million) to increase its shareholding in Japan's Matsuo Electric, a move the passive components maker...
Wednesday 25 February 2026
PGC profits rebound in 2025 with sub-12nm processes exceeding 70% of revenue
Benefiting from a continued increase in high-end process non-recurring engineering (NRE) projects, Progate Group Corporation (PGC) reported fourth-quarter 2025 revenue of NT$415 million...
Wednesday 25 February 2026
MLCC prices to climb as AI demand hits full capacity
The global multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) market is on the brink of a price surge as Japanese and Korean giants grapple with record demand from AI data centers. Samsung Electro-Mechanics...