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Saturday 8 August 2026
Taiwan team builds high-performance MoS2 transistor to ease 2D semiconductor limits
Taiwan researchers announced on August 6 that they had developed a high-performance monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) top-gate transistor designed to address a long-standing interface...
Saturday 8 August 2026
Commentary: China IC design rules reshape patent battles

China's State Council has released a revised version of the regulations on the protection of IC layout designs, set to take effect...

Saturday 8 August 2026
Highpoint Service Network posts record first-half profit on India expansion
Highpoint Service Network approved its second-quarter 2026 financial report on August 5, posting record revenue for both the quarter and the first half as it expanded in the Asia-Pacific...
Saturday 8 August 2026
Ching Chan Optical profit jumps on high-end optical sorter demand
Ching Chan Optical Technology said second-quarter 2026 earnings per share reached NT$0.96, up 12-fold year-on-year, as shipments of high-end optical sorting machines for passive components...
Saturday 8 August 2026
iST reports higher gross margin in the second quarter as validation demand rises
Integrated Service Technology (iST) reported consolidated revenue of about NT$1.184 billion in the second quarter of 2026, up 9.24% quarter-over-quarter but down 1.7% from a year earlier...
Saturday 8 August 2026
Nova Technology posts record second-quarter and first-half profit on strong order recognition
Nova Technology posted record second-quarter and first-half 2026 profit as orders from semiconductor, memory, and advanced packaging customers continued to drive revenue recognition...
Friday 7 August 2026
Analysis: TSMC expands Japan footprint with 3nm fab, advanced packaging push
TSMC is expanding Japan's role in its global network as it prepares to add 3nm production in Kumamoto and deepens local capabilities in advanced packaging, chip design and next-generation...
Friday 7 August 2026
Ibiden raises full-year profit forecast as AI server and substrate demand strengthens
Ibiden said on August 4 that it raised its fiscal 2026 outlook after stronger-than-expected demand from generative AI and a recovery in the general-purpose server market lifted results...
Friday 7 August 2026
Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala weighs US$6.3B investment in Japan AI data center

The United Arab Emirates is considering investing as much as JPY1 trillion (approx. US$6.3 billion) in a 500MW artificial intelligence...

Friday 7 August 2026
SK Hynix commits US$39 billion to new Yongin and Cheongju fabs as AI memory demand builds
SK Hynix has approved roughly KRW54 trillion (approx. US$39 billion) in new fab construction across two domestic sites, allocating KRW35.2 trillion to a second Yongin fab and KRW19.1...
Friday 7 August 2026
China launches review of Palo Alto Networks as trade tensions with US escalate
China's cyberspace authority said it has begun to scrutinize products sold by US cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks within the country, citing risks to national security and...
Friday 7 August 2026
South Korea welcomes Trump polysilicon rules as boost to non-China suppliers
US President Donald Trump's new import rules on polysilicon, ingots, wafers, and solar products could ripple through global clean energy and semiconductor markets, affecting pricing,...
Friday 7 August 2026
SK Hynix's Solidigm weighs up to US$7 billion in pre-IPO funding

Solidigm, SK Hynix's US NAND and enterprise storage unit, is weighing a pre-IPO funding round of KRW5 trillion to KRW10 trillion, roughly US$3.5 billion to US$7 billion,...

Friday 7 August 2026
Chinese AI firms shift toward monetization as LLM providers reportedly signal price increases
Chinese large language model (LLM) developers are beginning to move away from aggressive price competition, with leading players reportedly introducing higher prices and new commercial...
Friday 7 August 2026
US optical transceiver ban risks slowing AI data center build-out
A proposed US ban on new Chinese optical transceivers could disrupt the build-out of AI data centers before Western suppliers have enough capacity to replace Chinese production, raising...