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Tuesday 16 June 2026
TSMC PLP timeline faces skepticism from Taiwan industry sources

A South Korean media report claiming TSMC is preparing to launch panel-level packaging at mass-production scale as early as 2027 has...

Tuesday 16 June 2026
Commentary: AI memory boom turns WF6 squeeze into an opening for CXMT

The semiconductor supply chain is facing another raw material shock — this time from tungsten hexafluoride, or WF6, a specialty...

Tuesday 16 June 2026
AI chip race sends WF6 prices soaring after Japan supply shock
Global expansion in AI chips, advanced logic processes, and multilayer 3D NAND flash memory is driving demand for tungsten hexafluoride (WF6), a critical electronic specialty gas used...
Tuesday 16 June 2026
SK Hynix reportedly readies HBM4E samples for Nvidia as Samsung pulls ahead
SK Hynix moved closer to shipping seventh-generation high-bandwidth memory, HBM4E, to key customers as timing emerged as a critical competitive factor in the global memory market....
Tuesday 16 June 2026
China's Starlink rival warns SpaceX is taking prime orbital slots
SpaceX's reported valuation crossing US$1 trillion has renewed global attention on low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites and the broader space economy. As Starlink continues to expand its...
Tuesday 16 June 2026
Yaskawa eyes physical AI boom with JPY25 billion capex
Yaskawa Electric is betting heavily on physical AI, the field that enables robots to operate autonomously, as it positions itself for a boom in AI robots. Since starting work with...
Tuesday 16 June 2026
Rapidus signs UK chip pact in push for 2nm customers

Japan's Rapidus has signed a memorandum of understanding with the UK Semiconductor Centre, a government-backed body established in 2025...

Tuesday 16 June 2026
Interview: From language to motion— Japanese startup APTO builds the data backbone for physical AI

Physical AI is emerging as a new frontier of model development. Any model, however, is only as good as the data used to train it. Because...

Monday 15 June 2026
Samsung foundry chief sees 2028 profit path as bonus costs mount

Samsung Electronics' foundry division chief told employees on June 12 that a return to profitability in the contract chipmaking business...

Monday 15 June 2026
South Korea's chip equipment players ride the HBM4 wave

South Korea's semiconductor equipment supply chain saw a material pickup in orders in the first half of 2026 as Samsung Electronics...

Monday 15 June 2026
China's new EV rules push European luxury PHEVs to the exit

European luxury automakers are pulling back from China's plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHEV) market after Beijing tightened eligibility requirements...

Monday 15 June 2026
InnoScience wins China patent ruling, Infineon GaN sales banned

The Supreme People's Court in China rejected Infineon's reconsideration request on June 12, 2026, upholding a Suzhou Intermediate People's...

Monday 15 June 2026
SK Hynix to test ChatGPT and Copilot as Samsung widens enterprise AI use
SK Hynix said it is evaluating external generative AI models, including ChatGPT Enterprise and Microsoft Copilot, as it pilots broader AI use across the company, following Samsung...
Monday 15 June 2026
Visionox pushes ViP OLED commercialization as China's flexible OLED utilization slumps

Chinese OLED panel maker Visionox is accelerating the commercialization of its proprietary Visionox intelligent Pixelization (ViP) technology...

Monday 15 June 2026
Samsung's Exynos 2600 doubles on-device AI performance in MLPerf benchmarks
Samsung Electronics announced that its Exynos 2600 mobile application processor delivered more than double the on-device AI performance of the Exynos 2500, according to benchmark results...