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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...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
TSMC reportedly asks suppliers to develop 5μm HBM microbumps
TSMC has asked materials and equipment suppliers to develop 5-micrometer-class microbump bonding and underfill technology for advanced HBM packaging, according to ETNews,...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Hardware isn't the problem — TSMC exec flags software, substrate gaps in 3D IC
Speaking at the SEMI 3DIC Advanced Manufacturing Alliance (3DICAMA) Global Summit on September 1, Jun He, TSMC Vice President of Advanced Packaging Technology and Service, noted that...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
AI demand push expands wafer industry's growth outlook
AI is reshaping demand well beyond chips, and GlobalWafers chair Doris Hsu said this shift is lifting the strategic importance of silicon wafers across the semiconductor supply chain...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Micro LED maker PlayNitride targets Micro LED optical communications within two years
Micro LED maker PlayNitride Inc. expects the technology to enter commercial optical communications applications within two years, expanding beyond displays into AI devices, data center...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
8 September Hsinchu seminar: Silicon photonics driving AI chains

As AI infrastructure drives demand for higher bandwidth, lower power consumption and faster connectivity, silicon photonics is becoming increasingly important to the...

Tuesday 1 September 2026
Taoyuan eyes northern AIDC hub, touts Tatan and LNG cooling edge
Taiwan's limited land and heavy dependence on imported energy have made power a scarce and strategic resource in the compute era, putting AI data center (AIDC) site selection on the...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Taiwan chip equipment maker Skytech opens advanced process lab with TSMC backing
Skytech and TSMC have opened an Advanced Process Laboratory focused on next-generation semiconductor manufacturing, highlighting TSMC's continued efforts to support Taiwan's domestic...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
India expands chip ambitions with full Semicon 2.0 notification
India has unveiled the next phase of its semiconductor policy, a move that could reshape global chip supply chains, investment flows, and talent markets. The expanded program aims...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Taiwan clears Lam Research's NT$9.8 billion subsidiary injection as etch leader scales R&D worldwide
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs has approved a NT$9.835 billion (approx. US$310 million) capital injection by Lam Research into its Taiwanese subsidiary, Lam Research Taiwan,...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
OpenAI compresses Jalapeno design to 9 months
OpenAI unveiled performance results for its in-house AI chip Jalapeno at Hot Chips 2026 ahead of Nvidia's latest earnings report, underscoring not whether it can beat GB200 or GB300,...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Samsung is said to develop 8-layer HBM4E for Nvidia's NVHBM push
Samsung Electronics is reportedly developing an 8-layer version of seventh-generation high-bandwidth memory for Nvidia, matching the chipmaker's requirements for its customized NVHBM...
Monday 31 August 2026
Gudeng sees double-digit advanced packaging growth from 2027
Demand for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) continues to drive semiconductor process development, with advanced nodes and advanced packaging entering a new cycle of capacity...
Monday 31 August 2026
U-Best races to launch PFAS-free coatings by 1Q27
U-Best Innovative Technology, a unit of Sun Yad Group, is accelerating development of fluorine-free coatings to capture replacement demand driven by EU and US state-level regulations...
Monday 31 August 2026
ASE: CPO scale-out demands deeper supply-chain coordination for mass production
SEMICON Taiwan 2026 kicked off its pre-show program with the Silicon Photonics Global Summit.