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Friday 5 June 2026
China's EV makers are learning that growth comes at a cost
After briefly flirting with profitability late last year, China's leading electric-vehicle (EV) startups have once again slipped into the red, highlighting the mounting challenges...
Friday 5 June 2026
India faces PCB supply squeeze as raw material shocks, AI demand, and import dependence drive costs higher
India's PCB industry is facing mounting supply constraints and cost pressures, driven by a combination of raw material inflation, logistics disruptions, and a structural reliance on...
Friday 5 June 2026
HBM is too expensive, DRAM can't scale — Kioxia tells Computex SSDs are the answer for agentic AI
Koichi Fukuda, technology executive for applied SSD technology at Kioxia, used a Computex 2026 forum session on June 4 to argue that as enterprise AI shifts toward agentic systems,...
Friday 5 June 2026
Marvell says SerDes and packaging are key hurdles in switch chip development
Marvell says the next gains in switch chip performance will depend on faster SerDes and better packaging — issues that affect network capacity, signal quality, and cost across...
Thursday 4 June 2026
Taiwan's Walsin Technology gains pricing power from AI demand

Walsin Technology, one of Taiwan's leading manufacturers of multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs), has notified distributors that it will...

Wednesday 3 June 2026
Micron's HBM4 push signals bigger Nvidia supply role
Micron Technology may supply more HBM4 memory for Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin platform than the market currently expects, as the US memory maker ramps up equipment investment...
Wednesday 3 June 2026
Microsoft expands its model lineup and management tools at Build 2026
At Microsoft Build 2026 on June 2, Microsoft broadened the range of AI models available through its Foundry platform, adding four first-party models, deepening partner access, and...
Wednesday 3 June 2026
Middle East war drives LME aluminum to 4-year high, squeezing chip equipment margins
Rising global geopolitical risk and tightening supply in some markets have pushed London Metal Exchange (LME) aluminum prices higher in volatile trading, adding cost pressures to industries...
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Huawei's Tau Law faces its hardest test: chip yield, not theory
Huawei has introduced Tau Law, a semiconductor design framework built around LogicFolding, as a potential route for China to improve chip performance under US technology restrictions...
Saturday 30 May 2026
Terafab explained: SpaceX outlines space-optimized chips and AI megafab plan in IPO filing
SpaceX's IPO prospectus details an early-stage "Terafab" initiative to build large-scale AI chip manufacturing capacity. Still, the company warns of significant execution uncertainty,...
Thursday 28 May 2026
China's LLM price war puts DeepSeek, Xiaomi on a collision course with OpenAI
China's large language model (LLM) market is coming under mounting pricing pressure, as domestic AI model developers cut fees closer to cost, while the gap with international model...
Thursday 28 May 2026
UMC readies price hikes, kicks off 2027 customer talks
UMC held its shareholders' meeting on May 27, with CEO Jason Wang saying that as AI applications expand rapidly, long-term semiconductor demand still has room for growth. In addition...
Wednesday 27 May 2026
Facing Chinese rivals, Hyundai accelerates robotaxi plans and cost cuts
As Chinese automakers intensify a global price war, South Korea's Hyundai Motor Group is responding on two fronts at once: accelerating its push into autonomous mobility while pressing...
Wednesday 27 May 2026
Xiaomi saw nearly 60% profit drop amid memory cost 'super cycle'
On May 26, Xiaomi Corporation reported first-quarter 2026 revenue of CNY99.1 billion (approx. US$14.6 billion) as it confronts a "super cycle" of rising memory costs. Management characterized...
Monday 25 May 2026
Nvidia's reporting pivot and AMD's US$10B Taiwan bet signal a new frontier in AI chip war
Nvidia's structural pivot to isolate its ACIE market and AMD's US$10 billion investment in Taiwan infrastructure signal a profound realignment in the AI chip war. Both developments...