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Saturday 5 September 2026
Samsung SDI nears solid-state battery mass production, eyes China supply chain
Reports that Samsung SDI's procurement team recently visited the Chinese production facilities of battery material maker Tinci Materials have drawn significant attention within China's...
Saturday 5 September 2026
SiPh, optical lens demand ignite laser race
Silicon photonics (SiPh) is emerging as a core theme at SEMICON Taiwan 2026, and while the sector is still in an early, fast-growing stage, production-line investments are already...
Saturday 5 September 2026
Commentary: China builds three-pronged memory strategy around CXMT, YMTC, XMC
China's memory industry is shifting from a single-champion model towards a three-pronged structure. ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is building its position in DRAM, Yangtze Memory...
Saturday 5 September 2026
Taiwan auto parts makers face exit-or-overseas dilemma
Taiwan's auto market remains under pressure in 2026, and even as recent months have shown signs of bottoming out, auto parts makers remain cautious or outright pessimistic about the...
Friday 4 September 2026
South Korea taps chip windfall for next tech push
South Korea is turning a semiconductor-driven tax windfall into a broader technology investment push, directing record fiscal firepower toward chips, Nvidia's Vera Rubin computing...
Friday 4 September 2026
China interconnect chipmaker Montage enters Samsung, SK Hynix CXL 3.2 supply chains and begins DDR6 development

Montage Technology is accelerating its move beyond traditional DDR memory interfaces, with CXL 3.2, DDR6 and PCIe products positioning the...

Friday 4 September 2026
Micron reportedly targets 2× HBM capacity by end-2026; Samsung, SK Hynix keep the scale edge
Micron is reportedly preparing to roughly double its high-bandwidth memory capacity by the end of 2026, targeting about 100,000 wafers a month while sharply increasing 12-high HBM4...
Friday 4 September 2026
China's EUV gap may stretch 10–15 years, but DUV gains test Western export controls
China may remain 10–15 years away from developing domestic extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, according to assessments from UBS and Zeiss, highlighting the technological...
Friday 4 September 2026
Fujitsu says useful quantum computers may need far fewer qubits than expected
For years the quantum industry has worked on a discouraging assumption: that a machine capable of doing anything commercially useful would need a million qubits or more. Fujitsu told...
Friday 4 September 2026
Xiaomi Auto maps 2027 Europe entry with German dealer network and four-country vehicle testing
Xiaomi Auto has formally begun laying the groundwork for its overseas expansion. Xiaomi Group partner and CEO William Lu said on September 4 that the automaker had signed agreements...
Friday 4 September 2026
Moonshot AI reportedly files for Hong Kong IPO, targets US$3B
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI has reportedly filed confidentially for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, potentially setting up one of the city's most closely watched technology...
Friday 4 September 2026
Sumitomo Chemical starts mass production of 4-inch InP wafers for AI data centers
Sumitomo Chemical has started mass production and sales of indium phosphide (InP) epitaxial wafers, a core material for optical semiconductors used in next-generation data centers...
Friday 4 September 2026
LB Semicon starts Qualcomm shipments as DDI dependence fades
South Korean OSAT player LB Semicon has begun shipments to Qualcomm Inc., marking a key step in its effort to move beyond a business structure long centered on display driver ICs (DDI)...
Friday 4 September 2026
K-Safety Expo 2026: South Korea's safety AI moves from watching danger to acting on it
At first glance, many of the technologies spread across the K-Safety Expo 2026 show floor in Busan looked familiar: CCTV cameras, industrial sensors, warning lights and control panels...
Friday 4 September 2026
K-Safety Expo 2026: Inside Korea's push to make safety smarter, faster, more predictive
K-Safety Expo 2026 opened at BEXCO Exhibition Center 1 in Busan on September 2. An hour-long opening ceremony beginning at 11 a.m. brought together South Korean government officials,...