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Saturday 14 March 2026
AI boom lifts global foundry revenue to record US$169.5bn, demand risks surface for 2026
Global semiconductor foundries rebounded strongly in 2025 as artificial intelligence workloads and premium smartphone chips boosted advanced-node demand, though rising memory prices...
Saturday 14 March 2026
Winbond raises DDR3 prices to match DDR4, accelerates shift to DDR4
Facing ongoing DRAM shortages and widespread capacity constraints, chipmaker Winbond has raised the price of its 4Gb DDR3 chips to match that of equivalent DDR4 products. The company...
Saturday 14 March 2026
IntelliEPI's optical products drive revenue shift, boost margins, sees forecasts faster growth for 2026
Compound semiconductor maker Intelligent Epitaxy Technology (IntelliEPI) reported that its indium phosphide 200G PIN products have become the company's main revenue driver as demand...
Friday 13 March 2026
China's Nexchip signals wafer price hikes amid capacity expansion and CIS growth
Nexchip has confirmed that it has raised prices for certain wafer foundry products, aligning its pricing strategy with market conditions, customer demand, and ongoing operational improvements,...
Friday 13 March 2026
ByteDance's overseas chip play puts Washington in a bind
ByteDance, the Chinese technology company best known as the owner of TikTok, is seeking to secure large amounts of advanced artificial intelligence computing power outside China, underscoring...
Thursday 12 March 2026
Semco seen supplying ABF substrates for Tesla AI chips via Samsung foundry
Samsung Electro-Mechanics (Semco) is expected to supply ABF substrates for Tesla's next-generation artificial intelligence chips that Samsung Electronics plans to manufacture at its...
Thursday 12 March 2026
MediaTek bets on TSMC 3nm Genio Pro to serve high-end IoT needs while acknowledging limited demand
At Embedded World 2026, MediaTek unveiled the Genio Pro series, its flagship IoT platform built on TSMC's 3nm process, and said the market now requires both power-efficient mid-to-low-end...
Thursday 12 March 2026
SMIC flags supply squeeze in memory, BCD chips
China's largest contract chipmaker, SMIC, says orders for mature-node memory and BCD processes are running at full capacity, pushing prices higher as AI demand tightens supply across...
Thursday 12 March 2026
Meta designs four in-house chips to power data centers
Meta Platforms has unveiled plans for four generations of internally designed artificial intelligence chips as the company expands its data center infrastructure to support growing...
Thursday 12 March 2026
Elan and DSME collaborate on RF front-end chips to target LEO satellite market
The global low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite market is entering a period of explosive growth, with market estimates projecting an increase from US$15 billion in 2024 to US$108 billion...
Wednesday 11 March 2026
Samsung Taylor fab reportedly targets HPC, automotive chips; clients reach 121

Samsung Electronics plans to focus its new foundry plant in Taylor, Texas, on high-performance computing (HPC) and automotive semiconductors...

Wednesday 11 March 2026
JCET opens automotive and robotics chip packaging plant in Shanghai Lingang

JCET, China's leading semiconductor packaging and testing provider, has launched a facility focused on automotive electronics and robotics...

Wednesday 11 March 2026
Applied Materials partners with Micron, SK Hynix on US$5B AI memory R&D hub

Applied Materials has partnered with memory chipmakers Micron Technology and SK Hynix to develop next-generation memory technologies for...

Tuesday 10 March 2026
TSMC February 2026 revenue climb on AI demand despite seasonal dip
TSMC reported February 2026 revenue of NT$317.66 billion (US$10 billion), up 22.2% year over year but down 20.8% month over month from January's NT$401.26 billion, according to the...
Tuesday 10 March 2026
Iran conflict threatens Gulf data center boom as attacks mount
The widening conflict involving Iran is beginning to ripple through the global AI industry, raising new questions about the security of Gulf-backed data center projects and the resilience...