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Thursday 5 November 2026
Chipmakers rush to secure equipment for 2029 as lead times top two years
Chipmakers are moving to secure production equipment for delivery as far ahead as 2029, as AI-driven fab expansion pushes some equipment lead times beyond two years and forces manufacturers...
Thursday 5 November 2026
EU launches EUR525 million push to close chip design gap
The European Union has launched a EUR525 million (approx. US$590 million) initiative to strengthen its semiconductor design industry, seeking to narrow the gap with the US and China...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Price hikes, market saturation curb global telecom, consumer electronics export growth
Rising global oil prices have driven up food costs, squeezing consumer discretionary budgets for products with higher price elasticity, such as smartphones and consumer electronics...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Commentary: AOI locks in China's InP substrates for AI optics, but export controls threaten supply
AI data centers are accelerating demand for high-speed optical communications, extending competition in the optical transceiver market beyond chips and module manufacturing to critical...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Samsung reportedly plans 2nm fab to boost HBM base-die output
Samsung Electronics is preparing to build a 2nm- and 4nm-class foundry fab at its Giheung campus in Yongin, South Korea, to expand production of logic base dies used in high-bandwidth...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Arm reports record fiscal 2Q27 revenue on licensing momentum and AGI CPU demand
Arm delivered a record-breaking second quarter for fiscal year 2027, reporting total revenue of US$1.44 billion, up 27% year-over-year. This milestone marks the company's fifth straight...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Inventec server demand drives record 10-month revenue
Inventec reported October revenue of NT$79.97 billion (approx. US$2.44 billion), down 18.9% from September but up 46.0% from October 2025, setting a record high for the same period...
Thursday 5 November 2026
CXMT prepayments surge 16x with DRAM shortage lifting market share
Global memory supply constraints are creating opportunities for Chinese DRAM maker CXMT to expand its market share. As major international manufacturers prioritise high-bandwidth memory...
Thursday 5 November 2026
AI doubts mount, but server supply chain still sees strong demand
As concerns over AI deepen and negative headlines continue to emerge, companies across the AI server supply chain say customer orders remain strong. Industry sources said Nvidia GPU...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Corning starts optical connectivity output in western India, plans larger adjacent plant for 2027
Corning's move to begin making optical connectivity products in Pune and add a larger adjacent plant by 2027 shows the AI-driven surge in data center fiber demand, so far strongest...
Thursday 5 November 2026
GlobalFoundries revenue rises 13% as data center demand offsets mobile decline
GlobalFoundries' third quarter showed the contract chipmaker's revenue base shifting from smartphones to AI-related networking, and that shift is now boosting profitability. Revenue...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Qualcomm's September-quarter revenue falls 8% as handset slump outweighs automotive gains
Qualcomm's fiscal fourth quarter showed a company whose growth now comes almost entirely from outside the smartphone, but not yet at a scale that can offset a shrinking handset business...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Arm's quarterly revenue rises 27% as licensing outpaces smartphone-weighed royalties
Arm's September quarter showed demand for its technology moving toward data centers while its smartphone royalty base slowed. Revenue rose 27% from a year earlier to a record US$1.44...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Chicony Power profit hit by notebooks in Q3 2026
Chicony Power Technology Co. reported weaker quarterly results in the third quarter of 2026 as slowing notebook demand and severe memory shortages among customers weighed on performance...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Murata, Samsung Electro-Mechanics reportedly secure Winbond's silicon capacitor capacity
Murata Manufacturing and Samsung Electro-Mechanics (Semco) have reportedly secured silicon capacitor production capacity from Winbond Electronics to meet demand from their end customers,...