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Saturday 27 June 2026
JCET's US$1.1bn expansion shows where China's AI chip crunch is moving

China's AI chip race is pushing the semiconductor bottleneck into advanced packaging and testing, where HPC, HBM, Chiplets and domestic...

Saturday 27 June 2026
Apple's reported 1.4nm roadmap signals prolonged race for advanced-node capacity
Apple is reportedly considering adopting 1.4nm process technology for its flagship smartphone SoCs as early as 2028, implying that flagship chips built on the 2nm generation could...
Saturday 27 June 2026
Hanmi targets advanced packaging market with FC Bonder 3.5

Hanmi Semiconductor has launched FC Bonder 3.5, a new flip-chip bonding tool for AI system semiconductor packaging, as the South Korean...

Friday 26 June 2026
Academia Sinica readies Taiwan-made quantum chip for engineering push
Academia Sinica has built a 20-qubit quantum chip from scratch, and the team now says the next phase is less about lab breakthroughs and more about engineering a scalable, reproducible...
Friday 26 June 2026
Apple reportedly revamps Mac chip roadmap to accelerate AI push
Apple is preparing its biggest shift yet to the release strategy for its in-house Mac processors, opting to skip high-end M6 Pro and M6 Max chips and instead bring more powerful AI-focused...
Friday 26 June 2026
Academia Sinica targets quantum chip manufacturing scale with Taiwan's semiconductor tool base
Academia Sinica's Center for Quantum Computer is focusing only on hardware, not algorithms or applications, and executive director Chii-Dong Chen said that approach is similar to the...
Friday 26 June 2026
Qualcomm's Dragonfly push highlights shift from mobile chips toward cloud AI
Qualcomm used its Investor Day to formally launch Dragonfly, a new data center product line aimed at cloud AI, and set out an ambitious revenue path that would shrink its dependence...
Friday 26 June 2026
Alibaba chip unit T-Head triples registered capital amid AI push
Alibaba Group's semiconductor design arm T-Head has more than tripled its registered capital, underscoring the Chinese technology giant's growing focus on artificial intelligence infrastructure...
Friday 26 June 2026
Apple and Google consider adopting Chinese memory chips: three obstacles remain
As AI demand prolongs shortages in memory chip supply, global technology companies are increasingly turning to Chinese-made semiconductors. However, industry analysts believe that...
Thursday 25 June 2026
Sigurd expands AI testing capacity as demand keeps facilities full
Sigurd is expanding testing and packaging capacity as AI demand and steady customer orders keep its facilities fully utilized. For global readers, the move underscores how supply chains...
Thursday 25 June 2026
SambaNova targets US$10B valuation as demand rises for cheaper AI inference
AI chipmaker SambaNova could raise between US$800 million and US$1 billion in a new funding round, according to its executive chairman and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan. This would raise SambaNova's...
Thursday 25 June 2026
TSMC 3nm lead times surpass one year as Samsung faces Intel in foundry push
As demand for AI chips surges, the battle for foundry orders is heating up. South Korean industry sources say the next 2-3 years will be a critical period for Samsung Electronics'...
Thursday 25 June 2026
ByteDance's reported AI chip orders mark breakthrough for Chinese GPU maker Iluvatar CoreX
ByteDance's reported plan to purchase at least 50,000 AI inference chips from Shanghai-based GPU developer Iluvatar CoreX could become one of the most significant commercial wins yet...
Thursday 25 June 2026
OpenAI debuts Broadcom-designed, TSMC-built inference chip as model makers diversify silicon
OpenAI on June 24 unveiled "Jalapeño," its first in-house AI accelerator, co-developed with Broadcom and manufactured by TSMC — the clearest sign yet that leading model...
Thursday 25 June 2026
Qualcomm pushes into data center chips with Dragonfly lineup and Meta deal, taking aim at Nvidia
Qualcomm used its June 24 investor day to unveil a data center chip portfolio and a multi-generation CPU agreement with Meta, a strategic bid to diversify beyond a shrinking smartphone...