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Tuesday 11 August 2026
Jiuhan lifts first-half profit 400% on NT$11 billion order book
Jiuhan System Technology reported record second-quarter and first-half 2026 revenue and profit on strong demand tied to advanced semiconductor manufacturing and AI infrastructure....
Tuesday 11 August 2026
UMC revenue climbs to a 45-month high as wafer prices rise
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) reported July 2026 consolidated revenue of NT$23.84 billion, up 1.8% from June and 18.98% from a year earlier, marking the highest level in...
Tuesday 11 August 2026
China's AMIES lands repeat orders for 350nm lithography system

Shanghai-based AMIES Technology has secured repeat volume orders for its domestically developed AST6200 350nm stepper projection lithography...

Tuesday 11 August 2026
Memory crunch pushes Apple toward China—and into Washington's security dilemma

Apple's unusual interest in testing CXMT memory and redirecting part of its procurement toward China has rattled Washington, given...

Tuesday 11 August 2026
Samsung set to double BOE TV panel orders as Korean TV makers reshuffle suppliers

Samsung Electronics is expected to double its purchases of TV LCD panels from BOE in 2026 while cutting orders from CSOT, as Samsung...

Tuesday 11 August 2026
PSA, NTUT sign NT$50 million AI research and talent deal
Passive System Alliance (PSA) Group and National Taipei University of Technology have signed a three-year industry-academia agreement worth NT$50 million to advance artificial intelligence...
Monday 10 August 2026
SK Hynix weighs stake sale in US$3B Chongqing chip packaging plant

SK Hynix is considering options for its semiconductor packaging and testing facility in Chongqing, China, including bringing in an...

Monday 10 August 2026
Commentary: What the DeepSeek-Unitree tie-up reveals about China's hard-tech financing

DeepSeek's participation in Unitree's Shanghai STAR Market IPO was made at the corporate level, not personally by founder Liang Wenfeng...

Monday 10 August 2026
Samsung HBM4 yield nears 80% as production race with SK Hynix heats up

Samsung Electronics has reportedly pushed the production yield of its sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM4) close to 80%, marking...

Monday 10 August 2026
FCC 26-50 extends US tech controls to chips, optical transceivers and supply-chain origins

US technology controls are reaching deeper into communications supply chains. Under FCC 26-50, the Federal Communications Commission...

Monday 10 August 2026
OCI rides AI, space solar boom as SpaceX deepens polysilicon ties
South Korean solar polysilicon supplier OCI Holdings is capitalizing on its increasingly scarce position as a non-China supplier, benefiting not only from growing solar demand from...
Monday 10 August 2026
Moore Threads eyes HK listing after 147% revenue surge, AI GPU expansion

Chinese AI GPU developer Moore Threads is preparing a Hong Kong listing after first-half revenue jumped 147.42% year on year to CNY1.74...

Monday 10 August 2026
Apple tests CXMT memory chips as shortage, price pressures persist

Apple has tested DRAM from China's ChangXin Memory Technologies in iPhone and MacBook products as AI-driven memory shortages and rising...

Monday 10 August 2026
Cambricon AI chip revenue doubles as China demand surges, supply capacity holds key
Cambricon Technologies has largely settled the question of whether China's AI chip champion can make money. First-half 2026 revenue rose 108.13% to CNY6 billion (approx. US$890 million),...
Monday 10 August 2026
SK Hynix faces US patent fight over HBM, 3D NAND

SK Hynix is facing an expanding US patent dispute with MonolithIC 3D. A second US International Trade Commission (USITC) investigation...