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Tuesday 1 September 2026
Samsung eyes early 2027 LPDDR5X-PIM production, touts 3.8x performance gain
Samsung Electronics is targeting mass production of its LPDDR5X processing-in-memory (PIM) solution in late 2026 or early 2027, moving the technology closer to commercialization as...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Safety rewired: AI, robots on the front line at K-Safety Expo 2026
Hard hats and fire extinguishers will certainly have their place at K-Safety Expo 2026, but visitors arriving at BEXCO in Busan from September 2–4 may find that the modern safety...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Japan's chip materials makers reportedly deepen Taiwan ties as AI reshapes supply chains
Japanese semiconductor materials suppliers Ajinomoto and Daikin Industries are expanding their presence in Taiwan as the AI boom fuels demand for advanced chip materials and encourages...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics discloses major MLCC supply deal tied to AI server demand
Samsung Electro-Mechanics disclosed on September 1 that it has concluded a single sales and supply contract worth KRW1.072 trillion (about US$778.9 million) for MLCCs, equal to 9.5%...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
K-Safety Expo 2026 to open in Busan, spotlighting AI-driven safety technologies
K-Safety Expo 2026, one of South Korea's leading exhibitions dedicated to the safety industry, will open September 2 at BEXCO in Busan, bringing together companies, government agencies,...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Foxlink, Yongwei to sell Shinfox stake, cede control
Foxlink and Yongwei Investment Holdings each held board meetings on the 31st and decided to participate in the tender offer for Shinfox Energy, planning to dispose of their Shinfox...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics takes glass substrates to Semicon Taiwan
As AI packages grow larger, the next substrate battleground is rapidly extending from traditional organic materials to glass. Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEMCO) will make its first...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
BYD's overseas business overtakes China for the first time as price war erodes domestic margins
BYD sold more abroad than at home in the first half of 2026, a threshold the company crossed for the first time and the clearest signal yet that the center of gravity of its car business...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
BYD widens overseas lead over Geely, but profits still lag
BYD and Geely Auto were nearly neck and neck in vehicle sales in the first quarter of 2026, raising expectations of a close contest between China's two leading new-energy vehicle makers...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Z.ai runs GLM inference on 100,000 Chinese AI chips, eyes overseas CSPs
Chinese large-model developer Z.ai says it can now support large-scale inference using roughly 100,000 domestically produced AI chips, while its GLM models are also moving closer to...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Chinese court freezes US$318M in Nexperia assets, further escalating corp rift
A Chinese court has ordered the freezing of more than CNY2.14 billion (approx. US$318 million) in domestic assets belonging to Dutch semiconductor manufacturer Nexperia and its equipment...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
China's memory chipmakers post a record 1H — but not all of it came from chips
Nine listed Chinese memory and memory-adjacent chip companies have now filed their first-half 2026 results, and together they measure the depth of the current DRAM and NAND upcycle...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Analysis: CXMT's US$11.5B profit surge raises the stakes in China's AI memory race
China's leading DRAM maker CXMT has gone from years of accumulated losses to one of the most profitable companies on the mainland market, propelled by an extraordinary memory upcycle...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
JCET lifts 2026 capex to CNY10 billion as AI packaging demand outruns forecasts
JCET Group is sharply increasing spending as demand for artificial intelligence strains advanced packaging capacity worldwide. The Chinese chip tester and assembler said the shift...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
XCENA teams up with Samsung on rack-scale CXL memory; demos on Intel Xeon 6
South Korean chip startup XCENA is pushing CXL beyond memory expansion and toward a new layer of server computing, unveiling measured results for its MX1 computational memory device...