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Wednesday 22 July 2026
Japan weighs new standards post to gain an edge in AI and chips
Japan is considering creating a senior government position to coordinate international standardization across ministries and industry, as Tokyo seeks to convert a sweeping investment...
Wednesday 22 July 2026
'Two companies, one business': how Zeiss and ASML are riding the AI boom to dominate EUV

Zeiss, the exclusive supplier of ASML's extreme ultraviolet (EUV) optical systems, says the two companies operate as though they were...

Wednesday 22 July 2026
Interview: Why agentic AI could be SiPearl's biggest break—and Europe's

Philippe Notton has spent nearly 20 years traveling to Taiwan roughly once a month. That rhythm—born from his time at MStar Semiconductor...

Wednesday 22 July 2026
Academia Sinica quantum chip platform targets production by end of 2026
Academia Sinica said its quantum chip fabrication platform in Tainan is moving through equipment calibration and is expected to start producing quantum chips by the end of 2026. The...
Tuesday 21 July 2026
Haesung DS lands CXMT as DDR5 substrate customer, weighs panel production for DDR6

Haesung DS has reportedly added China's CXMT as a customer for DDR5 package substrates as the South Korean supplier expands its DDR5 business...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Google developing 'frozen' chip that embeds Gemini models for efficiency gains

Google is reportedly developing a new chip that embeds information from its Gemini AI models directly onto the silicon to boost efficiency...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Goldkey secures NT$3.6 billion loan to expand AI server memory business
Goldkey Technology has completed and signed a three-year syndicated loan worth NT$3.6 billion (US$111.3 million) to support inventory growth and working capital needs tied to AI servers...
Tuesday 21 July 2026
Huawei Kirin 9030 shows SMIC's 7nm gains and ongoing efficiency gap
A teardown of Huawei's Kirin 9030 flagship processor — built on SMIC's 7nm-class N+3 process — reveals continued density progress from China's leading chipmaker, but a...
Tuesday 21 July 2026
Ishihara Sangyo doubles high-purity titanium dioxide capacity on AI server demand

Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha plans to double production capacity for high-purity titanium dioxide used to make dielectric materials for multilayer...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Trump offers tariff relief to aluminum producers investing in US smelters

US President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation creating a new incentive program that would cut import tariffs on primary aluminum...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Power and water constraints cast doubt on South Korea's Honam memory cluster, experts say
South Korea's plan to develop a semiconductor cluster in the Honam region (Jeolla Province) is facing mounting scrutiny over whether the area can support the enormous energy and infrastructure...
Tuesday 21 July 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron pull back on in-house CXL controller plans

Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron Technology are reportedly scaling back or shelving plans to commercialize internally developed...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Middlemen emerge as ASEAN's No. 2 AI compute buyers
In the AI computing race, Nvidia AI server chips remain red-hot, even as the US-China trade confrontation shows no sign of easing. Although Shopee and YTL Group are among the biggest...
Tuesday 21 July 2026
China's EUV gap keeps semiconductor catch-up in check
As the US continues to tighten export controls on advanced semiconductor equipment to China, questions are mounting over whether China can narrow the gap with leading-edge manufacturing...
Tuesday 21 July 2026
China's Z.ai reportedly powers up 1GW data center built entirely on domestic chips

Chinese AI developer Z.ai has completed a giant data center running exclusively on domestically made chips, a milestone in Beijing's...