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Friday 12 September 2025
SEMICON Taiwan 2025: AMD pushes panel-level, 3D, and optical packaging as AI demands soar
At SEMICON Taiwan 2025, AMD Fellow Daniel Ng, who heads the company's OSAT technology development, laid out a stark assessment of the semiconductor industry's next bottleneck: the...
Friday 12 September 2025
SEMICON Taiwan 2025: Nvidia shifts optical roadmap from co-packaged to co-integrated optics
Nvidia is advancing its optical interconnect research to support the growing scale of "AI factories" and accelerated computing clusters.
Monday 8 September 2025
China's chip self-sufficiency push spurs foreign suppliers to hike prices and weigh exit
Global chipmakers are signaling shifts in pricing strategies, with more vendors considering hikes. Industry sources say China, long a market of cutthroat competition, is becoming...
Monday 8 September 2025
Taiwan's high-tech supply chain faces rising pressures amid global expansion and outsourcing trends
Taiwan's high-tech manufacturers are encountering significant challenges as they establish factories overseas, particularly due to cost pressures stemming from US President Donald...
Saturday 6 September 2025
South Korea plans to cut wafer material tariffs to 0% to strengthen its semiconductor cost advantage
The South Korean government is reportedly pushing to reduce tariffs on key imported materials used in semiconductor wafer production to 0% by 2026. Amid the US' announcement of a...
Friday 5 September 2025
China's NEV market sees rising adoption of hybrid SiC tech amid price war
China's new energy vehicle (NEV) sector continues to face intense price competition, with domestic manufacturers pushing vehicle prices to unprecedented lows. This aggressive pricing...
Friday 5 September 2025
Tech Forum 2025: AI chip testing seen as necessary evil amid heterogeneous integration challenges, says National Instruments
As AI chip manufacturing technology rapidly evolves, US test equipment manufacturer National Instruments (NI) points out that many view the testing phase as a "necessary evil." Customers...
Friday 5 September 2025
OpenAI reportedly developing custom AI chips with Broadcom, mass output slated for 2026
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan revealed the company has landed a US$10 billion order from a mystery customer, which insiders now identify as OpenAI. The two firms are developing OpenAI's first...
Friday 5 September 2025
Commentary: Advanced AI packaging driving semiconductor industry toward 'virtual integration'
Advanced packaging is rewriting the rules of the semiconductor industry. According to DIGITIMES Research, in 2024, global AI data center accelerators (covering GPUs and ASICs)...
Thursday 4 September 2025
Tech Forum 2025: ASICs, packaging, and HBM reshape the AI chip race
The global market for high-end cloud AI accelerators is approaching a major turning point. DIGITIMES forecasts that beginning in 2026, the supply chain will enter a new "decentralized"...
Friday 29 August 2025
South Korean media points to TSMC as main cause of Samsung's AP procurement cost surge
Samsung Electronics' smartphone division is reportedly struggling with escalating cost pressures, largely attributed to the rapid rise in prices for mobile application processors...
Friday 29 August 2025
Hybrid models, local servers, and Netweb's role in India's AI ecosystem
India's ambition to become a trillion-dollar digital economy is creating demand for AI infrastructure that can support both rapid experimentation and cost efficiency.
Tuesday 26 August 2025
NOR flash prices set to surge in 4Q25 on cost pressures, supply constraints

After months of sluggish demand and weakened pricing, the NOR Flash memory market appears poised for a significant turnaround, particularly...

Tuesday 26 August 2025
Research Insights: Humanoid robots are coming, but hardware may decide how fast
Nvidia's framing of the next AI wave as "physical AI" has fueled investor and industry excitement around humanoid robots, accelerating development. But according to a DIGITIMES...
Monday 25 August 2025
Mindgrove bets on cost, compliance, and partnerships to take Indian chips global
Chennai-based Mindgrove Technologies is charting a path from prototype to mass production of secure IoT chips, betting on cost efficiency, regulatory compliance, and deep partnerships...