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Wednesday 25 February 2026
IC design house Raydium flags DDI off-season; large-panel orders advance on early stocking

Display driver IC supplier Raydium reported its 2025 financial results, posting full-year revenue of NT$22.4 billion (approx. US$715 million),...

Wednesday 25 February 2026
Unimicron names UMC's SC Chien chair in substrate strategy shift
Unimicron held an investor conference on 25 February 2026. A day earlier, its board approved the appointment of UMC co-president SC Chien as chairman and group chief strategy officer...
Wednesday 25 February 2026
SK Hynix signals seller's market as memory prices set to climb all year
SK Hynix, one of the world's top three memory chip makers, told investors on a recent Goldman Sachs conference call that the global memory market has fully shifted to a "seller's market,"...
Wednesday 25 February 2026
Unimicron's 4Q25 profit surpasses combined earnings of first 3 quarters; 2026 capex raised to NT$34 billion
Given the steady demand for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) chips, Unimicron stated that orders for IC substrates and PCBs have picked up. This has not only steadily increased...
Wednesday 25 February 2026
Sigurd invests NT$1.54B to acquire Unimicron's Hukou plant amid strong AI, ASIC demand
Taiwan's IC packaging and testing supply chain is accelerating expansion as Sigurd announced it will invest NT$1.54 billion (approx. US$49M) to purchase a factory in the Hukou Industrial...
Wednesday 25 February 2026
China targets fivefold jump in advanced chip output to fuel AI expansion
China is preparing a fivefold increase in domestic advanced logic chip output within one to two years to support its expanding AI computing infrastructure, according to people familiar...
Wednesday 25 February 2026
MLCC prices to climb as AI demand hits full capacity
The global multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) market is on the brink of a price surge as Japanese and Korean giants grapple with record demand from AI data centers. Samsung Electro-Mechanics...
Wednesday 25 February 2026
HP posts AI-driven revenue gains, but memory costs cloud outlook
HP reported first-quarter results for fiscal year 2026 (ending January) that exceeded expectations, driven by the Windows 11 upgrade cycle and surging demand for AI-powered PCs. Yet...
Wednesday 25 February 2026
ChipMOS raises memory test prices again, signs 3-year capacity contract
ChipMOS returned to profitability in 2025 after a fourth-quarter 2025 rebound driven by memory shortages and higher test prices, and the company forecasts a stronger second-half performance...
Wednesday 25 February 2026
Apple's pricy foldable iPhone looms over smartphone panel market
The smartphone market has been sluggish since the Lunar New Year holiday and into the traditional off-season. Prices for smartphone panels across various technologies have declined...
Wednesday 25 February 2026
Analog market rebalances: Texas Instruments pushes through price hikes
Texas Instruments (TI) has raised analog chip prices in 2025, prompting several US and European peers to follow suit with similar increases.
Wednesday 25 February 2026
ASE accelerates panel-level packaging push with fully automated 310mm line by 2026
AI and high-performance computing chip demand continue to expand, keeping TSMC's CoWoS capacity tight into 2026. The supply constraint is pushing Taiwan's major OSAT providers, including...
Wednesday 25 February 2026
Texas Instruments posts mixed fourth-quarter 2025 results as data center strength offsets consumer weakness
Texas Instruments reported mixed results for the fourth quarter of 2025, with year-on-year growth supported by industrial and data center demand but sequential declines across most...
Wednesday 25 February 2026
TI capex to fall as six-year investment cycle winds down, Sherman fab ramp ahead schedule
Texas Instruments is approaching the end of a six-year capex expansion after spending US$4.6 billion in 2025, and plans to cut 2026 investment to US$2 billion–US$3 billion as...
Wednesday 25 February 2026
China AI server buildout strains optical module, MLCC capacity
China's AI data center supply chain gained renewed focus after the Lunar New Year holiday, as optical module and MLCC suppliers pointed to sustained demand from hyperscale infrastructure...