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Wednesday 15 July 2026
Tower Semiconductor bets on Japan to ride the AI data center shift from copper to light
Tower Semiconductor is placing a roughly US$3 billion wager that the artificial-intelligence buildout will force data centers to move data with light rather than electricity, anchoring...
Tuesday 14 July 2026
Tripod posts record second-quarter revenue as 2026 capex plan tops NT$10 billion
Tripod Technology said its business stayed strong in the first half of 2026, helping second-quarter revenue hit a new quarterly high. June sales still topped NT$8 billion (approx....
Saturday 11 July 2026
Interview: Why Geckos bets materials, not chips, will decide the next AI performance leap

As generative AI fuels rapid growth in demand for high-performance computing (HPC), the semiconductor industry is shifting from a process...

Friday 10 July 2026
JPC Connectivity June revenue hits a new high on AI data center demand
AI data centers and faster interconnects are lifting demand for JPC Connectivity, with the cable and connector maker posting record June revenue and stronger quarterly results. The...
Thursday 9 July 2026
Gem Terminal June sales dipped as AI cooling and green power demand rose
Gem Terminal said June 2026 consolidated revenue fell from May because customers and internal teams carried out routine inventory counts, delaying some shipments. Even so, the Taiwan-based...
Tuesday 7 July 2026
Exclusive: Geckos bets on AI materials beyond nano copper powders and CPO waveguides
As generative AI drives rapid growth in high-performance computing (HPC) demand, the semiconductor industry is shifting from process-node competition to materials competition. Geckos...
Monday 6 July 2026
Kingboard raises CCL prices again as AI demand tightens PCB material supply
Rising demand for AI servers and high-performance computing (HPC) continues to drive price increases across the upstream PCB materials supply chain.
Saturday 4 July 2026
Samsung and SK Hynix seek substrate price cuts for the second half of 2026
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are reportedly pressing South Korean semiconductor substrate suppliers to lower prices for the second half of 2026, even as memory demand remains in...
Friday 3 July 2026
Global server demand is set to stay strong through 2027 as supply chain pressure widens

Global server demand is expected to stay strong through 2027, with implications for cloud operators, hardware makers, and data center...

Friday 3 July 2026
Musk eyes Mesh Optical deal as AI data centers push beyond copper
Elon Musk has moved to acquire optical communications startup Mesh Optical Technologies, according to reports cited by Reuters on June 27 in the US. The deal comes as high-speed...
Thursday 25 June 2026
MediaTek, Google reportedly deepen ASIC ties as SerDes race hits 448G
MediaTek is reportedly strengthening its partnership with Google in ASICs, a move that could increase the scale of future orders and carry implications for AI infrastructure worldwide...
Wednesday 24 June 2026
Gem Terminal bets on specialty copper to capture AI server cooling demand

Gem Terminal Industrial Co. said its strategic transformation into specialty copper materials drove record quarterly profits in the...

Thursday 18 June 2026
SiC cuts AI data center costs; 5% efficiency gain saves US$5 billion
Power is now compute, and it is becoming a major driver of AI data center build costs. Renesas technical director Mu-Sen Lin said traditional data centers rely on low-voltage AC (LVAC),...
Thursday 18 June 2026
Interview: MicroLED and SiPh eye 3.2T AI data race
The AI wave is rapidly reshaping the global semiconductor supply chain, and that upheaval is opening a new growth chapter for Taiwan's LED industry. As Taiwan's LED makers move away...
Wednesday 17 June 2026
Gem Terminal eyes new growth curve in 2026 with shipments of AI-related thermal materials
Gem Terminal Industry is seeing the results of its recent efforts in developing new copper materials, with expectations of sequential quarterly growth in 2026 as production capacity...