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Monday 20 July 2026
Intel reassigns global fabs, eyes early 14A and EMIB-T AI wins

Intel has accelerated its global footprint reset for 2026 after receiving investments from the US government, SoftBank, and Nvidia...

Monday 20 July 2026
Weekly news roundup: AI chip race widens across silicon photonics, HBM, memory fabs, and frontier models

AI competition is widening from chips to connectivity, memory, talent, patents, and model access,...

Monday 20 July 2026
AI boom pushes PCB, passive component lead times into a new normal

The global wave of AI data center construction continues to accelerate, driving structural growth across the PCB and passive component...

Monday 20 July 2026
Interview: AI race is now a financing race, and Compute Labs wants to bankroll GPUs
As AI's bottleneck shifts from chips to capital, Compute Labs pitches GPUs as financeable assets.
Monday 20 July 2026
TSMC expansion strengthens Arizona's talent pull as advanced manufacturing shifts west
TSMC's ability to attract talent extends beyond Taiwan to the US, as its additional US$100 billion investment in Arizona for advanced manufacturing facilities is expected to further...
Monday 20 July 2026
Merck ramps up AI semiconductor materials push as Level Up nears completion

AI is redrawing the rules of semiconductor competition, pushing materials suppliers beyond simple chemical inputs and toward integrated...

Monday 20 July 2026
Exclusive Interview: Inside VSMC's Singapore fab, where silicon interposers and power chips underpin AI growth

TSMC raised its 2026 capital expenditure forecast to US$60–64 billion during its second-quarter earnings conference, with a substantial...

Monday 20 July 2026
Jensen Huang's week in Tokyo: what Nvidia's Japan trip reveals about future partners
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang spent last week in Tokyo meeting government officials, robotics makers and dozens of supply chain executives, as the company deepens its push into...
Monday 20 July 2026
Networking demand remains resilient, but component shortages threaten shipment schedules

AI data center expansion and high-speed network upgrades continue to support demand for networking equipment. However, as the industry...

Monday 20 July 2026
CXMT's US$4B IPO fuels DRAM capacity race toward 350,000 wafers a month

Chinese DRAM maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is accelerating construction and technology upgrades across its manufacturing...

Monday 20 July 2026
Nvidia grappling with internal compute needs amid GPU shortages
TSMC recently posted strong earnings, helped in large part by Nvidia orders, but both companies are grappling with chips inside their own operations: TSMC says they are too expensive,...
Monday 20 July 2026
Samsung struggles to secure AI chip substrates, report says

Samsung Electronics is reportedly facing difficulties securing large-format FC-BGA package substrates for custom AI chips, as suppliers...

Monday 20 July 2026
Holtek sees customers prioritize supply stability over pricing as optical communications gains are expected in 2027
Microcontroller (MCU) supplier Holtek Semiconductor reported June 2026 revenue of NT$351 million (approx. US$12 million), up 12.62% month-over-month and 30.93% year-over-year. Revenue...
Monday 20 July 2026
Beyond Taipower: AI, semiconductors, and overseas grids reshape Taiwan's electromechanical supply chain
Taiwan's heavy-electrical and electromechanical industry is entering a new growth phase as demand expands beyond its long-standing reliance on Taiwan Power (Taipower). While Taipower's...
Monday 20 July 2026
Micron's 10-year deal with GlobalWafers signals tighter 12-inch supply

Rising demand for AI data centers and high-bandwidth memory (HBM) is pushing semiconductor competition further upstream into silicon...