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Thursday 1 October 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: AI scaling is moving from chip shrinkage to system integration
TSMC said the next phase of AI performance growth will depend less on shrinking a single chip and more on combining multiple chips, memory, and advanced packaging inside larger systems...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Column: Memory and logic collide as AI shifts the balance
As HBM approaches half the cost of a GPU-HBM CoWoS package, can memory still be viewed as merely a passive component of AI computing? The answer goes back to the "memory wall," a challenge...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
SK Hynix tests HBM5 with TSMC as HBM4 enters Nvidia's next platform

SK Hynix has validated its HBM5 memory with TSMC's CoWoS packaging, the company said in a September 28 post on its corporate newsroom...

Tuesday 29 September 2026
Behind CoWoS (part 2): How TSMC turned a niche packaging experiment into an industry standard
As chip design enters the AI era, heterogeneous integration is driving foundry giants like TSMC, Samsung, and Intel to bring advanced front-end fab capabilities into back-end packaging...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Behind CoWoS (part 1)—How a 0% yield crisis led to TSMC's first advanced packaging win
In a recent interview on the DIGITIMES podcast, Dr. Shin-Puu Jeng, chairman of the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS) and a former longtime TSMC...
Monday 21 September 2026
TSMC builds Kaohsiung hub to speed advanced packaging tests
TSMC is building an advanced packaging validation hub in southern Taiwan as rapid chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) expansion puts pressure on equipment and materials suppliers to...
Thursday 17 September 2026
Google reportedly weighs CoWoS backup for 2027 TPU as EMIB-T substrate yields lag
Google's Humufish TPU project, scheduled to enter mass production by the end of 2027, is set to adopt Intel's EMIB-T advanced packaging technology with support from ASIC partner MediaTek...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
TSMC 3nm, 2nm, and CoWoS stay tight as AWS, MediaTek, TPU shift capacity
TSMC's 3nm, 2nm, and CoWoS advanced packaging capacity remained in short supply in late 2026's third quarter, as changes in major customer orders and front-end and back-end supply...
Saturday 5 September 2026
TSMC's 3D packaging roadmap: engineering AI chips to think like the human brain
TSMC is steering the future of artificial intelligence toward high-density three-dimensional advanced packaging designed to mimic the architectural connectivity of the human brain,...
Friday 4 September 2026
K&S targets CPO, CoPoS growth with expanded TCB advanced packaging roadmap
Singapore-based semiconductor packaging equipment maker Kulicke and Soffa (K&S) said AI demand is spreading into adjacent applications, lifting 2026 orders for wire bonding equipment...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
TSMC moves into Baipu Industrial Park, boosts advanced packaging
TSMC will set up operations in Kaohsiung's Baipu Industrial Park, helping create Taiwan's first advanced packaging materials and equipment supply-chain cluster. Closely watched by...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
TSMC delays CoWoS orders as CoPoS plans take shape
TSMC's reported delay in placing 2027 advanced packaging equipment orders has sparked market speculation that the company sees excess CoWoS capacity ahead. But equipment suppliers...
Saturday 29 August 2026
Samsung bets on JWMT: can glass substrates flip the script for South Korea in advanced packaging?
As artificial intelligence (AI) chips continue to scale up in physical size, semiconductor competition is rapidly extending beyond front-end node scaling into advanced packaging. The...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Google, MediaTek embrace advanced packaging diversification
Google and MediaTek are moving toward advanced packaging diversification, as Intel's embedded multi-die interconnect bridge (EMIB) gains traction after Google's TPU was confirmed to...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
TSMC packaging shift could boost AMD CoWoS share and trim Nvidia's allocation
Morgan Stanley said TSMC's advanced packaging allocation is expected to shift in 2027, as processor demand tied to agentic AI lifts AMD's CoWoS usage and reduces Nvidia's share. The...