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Thursday 18 December 2025
Intel completes high-NA EUV validation for 14A, advances 2D transistor tech
Intel has completed acceptance testing of the industry's first commercial high-NA EUV lithography system with a numerical aperture of 0.55, the ASML Twinscan EXE:5200B, laying the...
Thursday 18 December 2025
China's AMD- and Nvidia-bred GPU rivals meet on the IPO stage
As global demand for AI computing power intensifies, China's domestic GPU sector has reached a milestone. Following Moore Threads' successful IPO earlier this month, MetaX, a GPU developer...
Thursday 18 December 2025
AMD CEO pledges greater investment in China amid efforts to boost US-China chip cooperation
AMD CEO Lisa Su has announced plans to increase investment in China during a recent visit aimed at strengthening collaboration in the semiconductor and artificial intelligence sectors...
Thursday 18 December 2025
Rapidus launches AI design tools to support 2nm semiconductor development
On December 17, Rapidus announced a new suite of AI-based semiconductor design tools under its Rapidus AI-Assisted Design Solution (Raads), aimed at supporting the company's Rapid...
Thursday 18 December 2025
Google reportedly launches TorchTPU project to boost TPU compatibility with PyTorch
Google has reportedly initiated the TorchTPU project to enhance support for the PyTorch machine learning framework on its tensor processing units (TPUs), aiming to challenge the software...
Thursday 18 December 2025
imec and Japan's ASRA align on automotive chiplet standards
imec said it has launched a strategic alignment initiative with Japan's Advanced SoC Research for Automotive (ASRA) to coordinate efforts on standardizing chiplet architectures for...
Thursday 18 December 2025
Samsung and SK Hynix push PIM-enabled memory to address AI bottlenecks
As AI inference workloads grow and models expand rapidly, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are advancing high-bandwidth memory (HBM) technologies while integrating processing-in-memory...
Thursday 18 December 2025
Niching targets multi-year vapor chamber upswing, insulates margins against metal costs
Niching Industrial Corp., a supplier of semiconductor packaging and testing materials, said revenue in 2025 is likely to hit a record high, driven by rising cooling demand from AI...
Thursday 18 December 2025
China's EUV prototype forces a rethink of the AI chip order
China has quietly crossed a psychological and potentially strategic threshold in the global semiconductor race. In a tightly controlled laboratory in Shenzhen, Chinese scientists have...
Thursday 18 December 2025
Cyient Semiconductors to acquire majority stake in Kinetic Technologies for US$93 million
Cyient Ltd's wholly owned subsidiary, Cyient Semiconductors Singapore Pte Ltd, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire over 65% of US-based power semiconductor company Kinetic...
Thursday 18 December 2025
Advanced packaging drives ABF substrate expansion as Taiwanese companies exit post-pandemic capacity cuts
As more AI GPU, CPU, and ASIC customers ramp up their market push, advanced packaging capacity continues to face tight supply. This has prompted upstream IC packaging substrate makers...
Thursday 18 December 2025
Why OpenAI is courting AWS chips—and what it signals about cracks in its AI expansion
OpenAI is reportedly in negotiations with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to secure funding and collaborate on AWS's in-house developed application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs)....
Thursday 18 December 2025
Micron's HBM4 production set on 1-beta process as India ATMP ramp slips to 2026
In a post-earnings analyst call on December 17, 2025, Micron Technologies outlined plans for capital expenditure in fiscal year 2026, driven by global construction projects and the...
Thursday 18 December 2025
Samsung investigates Taiwan sales amid memory shortage, with China and Singapore ties

The global memory market is being gripped by its most severe shortage and price surge in years, one driven by structural shifts rather than...

Thursday 18 December 2025
Micron hikes FY26 capex to US$20b to accelerate HBM and US fab output
Micron Technology is ramping up capital spending to address tightening memory supply, raising fiscal 2026 capex to about US$20 billion as it accelerates investments in high-bandwidth...