Backed by US$15 billion in Japanese government funding, Rapidus announced an alliance with 17 semiconductor design-related companies, including US-based Synopsys and India's Infosys,...
SK Hynix's proposed KRW400 trillion (approx. US$299 billion) semiconductor expansion in southwestern South Korea faces a major obstacle as the company races to increase memory production...
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have accepted a 10% increase in ASML's replacement-part prices for lithography systems in South Korea, with the higher rates taking effect for deliveries...
LG Display has unveiled a new organic light-emitting diode (OLED) manufacturing technology designed to improve production efficiency and display performance, and reduce manufacturing...
A former iPhone display factory in Mobara, Japan, is set for a new role in the semiconductor supply chain, with Shinko Electric Industries planning to convert the site into a production...
Kawasaki Heavy Industries is betting on physical AI as part of a multibillion-dollar growth plan to modernize factories, address labor shortages, and expand robotics across shipbuilding,...
This week's (October 5 to October 11, 2026) coverage highlights intensifying efforts to build resilient semiconductor and AI hardware supply chains. Elon Musk's Terafab project faces...
Taiwan's gross domestic product (GDP) growth is projected to reach 11.05% in 2026, a 39-year high, driven by its technological advantage in artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors,...
Changs Ascending said orders tied to semiconductor customers' new plant construction, equipment arrivals, and project acceptance schedules were gradually fulfilled and recognized as...
The hardware boundary separating cloud-scale AI from local inference is becoming increasingly porous as PC vendors expand memory capacity and software platforms make larger open-weight...
Samsung Electro-Mechanics (Semco) has reportedly completed initial reliability testing of its 100mm glass substrates and moved to package-level verification using customer chips, marking...
SK Hynix's dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) and Universal Flash Storage (UFS) products have reached orbit aboard a South Korean satellite that successfully established communication...
China's state-backed Guowang (GW) low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite network has completed its first communications test during the country's 16th Arctic expedition, enabling a live video...
Samsung Electronics' next-generation 12-layer HBM4E product, a type of high-bandwidth memory (HBM), has reportedly cleared customer quality validation from Nvidia and major hyperscale...
