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Tuesday 7 April 2026
Formosa Plastics denies cutting PE supply amid US-Iran conflict, confirms March output increase
Impacted by the conflict in the Middle East, Taiwan has recently reported a shortage of plastic bags, raising questions about whether Formosa Plastics Group deliberately reduced production...
Tuesday 7 April 2026
AI is the new electricity — and it's already rewiring the ad industry
iKala co-founder and chairman Sega Cheng made a bold declaration at "iKala Connection Day" on March 30: AI is now the world's third essential infrastructure, ranking alongside water...
Tuesday 7 April 2026
CCL expansion triggers equipment shortages; lead times extend up to two years
Driven by applications such as AI high-speed computing, electric vehicles (EVs), and 5G/6G communications, demand for high-frequency, high-speed PCB materials has surged. Copper-clad...
Monday 6 April 2026
Smartphone order cuts hit IC design as recovery pushes to 2027
Market sentiment toward the 2026 smartphone outlook has turned increasingly pessimistic. On the supply side, rising component costs have expanded beyond memory to include across-the-board...
Monday 6 April 2026
China 2.5D packaging demand surges, supporting Korean backend equipment growth
China's semiconductor equipment market is emerging as a critical growth engine for South Korean suppliers, driven by accelerating AI deployment and tighter restrictions on US vendors...
Sunday 5 April 2026
E Ink rides AI-driven power surge as energy concerns boost e-paper demand
E Ink Holdings (EIH) posted record revenue and operating profit in 2025, as rising AI-related power demand and energy constraints are driving adoption of low-power display technologies,...
Sunday 5 April 2026
Apple pricing seen as key to 2026 smartphone slump
The global smartphone market is set for its steepest decline in more than a decade in 2026, as surging memory prices drive up device costs and weaken demand, according to the International...
Sunday 5 April 2026
DDR4 16Gb spot price falls after 2,200% surge as memory market polarizes
After soaring more than 2,200% over the past year, DDR4 16Gb spot prices have finally begun to decline, signaling a growing polarization in the memory market in the first quarter of...
Sunday 5 April 2026
China storage module maker Techwinsemi gains from AI-driven NAND cycle, expands smartphone ties
AI data center demand is tightening memory supply while NAND makers phase out low-capacity legacy nodes. Shenzhen Techwinsemi Technology said rising NAND prices are squeezing margins...
Saturday 4 April 2026
Semco raises ABF substrate prices as AI server demand surges
The explosive growth in artificial intelligence (AI) servers and high-performance computing (HPC) is driving up the value of key components like ABF substrates. With ongoing bottlenecks...
Saturday 4 April 2026
Memory interface chip maker Montage sees DDR5 surge drive 2025 growth
Montage Technology reported full-year 2025 revenue of CNY5.46 billion (US$750 million), up 49.9% year on year, while net profit rose 58.4% to CNY2.24 billion, broadly in line with...
Friday 3 April 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics lifts FC-BGA prices on AI-driven shortage
Samsung Electro-Mechanics has raised prices for its high-end flip-chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) substrates as demand from artificial intelligence (AI) servers and high-performance...
Friday 3 April 2026
Taiwan tackles CPO testing bottlenecks to scale SiPh for AI data centers
The surge in AI computing power is driving explosive demand for high-speed optical interconnects in data centers. Forecasts show that by 2026, over 50% of data center transceiver sales...
Friday 3 April 2026
Memory stocks rattled by TurboQuant, but demand outlook holds
Google Research's TurboQuant memory-compression algorithm has raised concerns that demand for AI-related memory could weaken, but South Korean experts and analysts say the market reaction...
Thursday 2 April 2026
Benefits of CXL in server memory configuration

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