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Thursday 2 July 2026
Samsung showcases 3D stacked transistor breakthrough for next-gen chips

Samsung Electronics has unveiled new research on a three-dimensional transistor architecture that it says could help extend logic chip...

Thursday 2 July 2026
GaAs and InP price hikes hit Taiwan supply chain
Compound semiconductor epitaxy makers are raising prices again for gallium arsenide (GaAs) and indium phosphide (InP) epi wafers, as persistent raw material cost increases, supply...
Thursday 2 July 2026
Taiwan eyes 2028 carbon trading market launch, but experts warn of risks and timing

Taiwan plans to launch an emissions trading system (ETS) in 2028 as the next phase of its carbon pricing framework — a cap-and-trade...

Thursday 2 July 2026
IBM's 0.7nm chip claim revives debate over semiconductor node naming

As semiconductor manufacturing enters the 2nm era, conventional transistor scaling is approaching its physical limits. On June 25,...

Wednesday 1 July 2026
Yageo chairman takes control of Anpec board
After Yageo confirmed its stake in Taiwanese power management IC maker Anpec, attention has turned to whether the group will deepen its involvement in Anpec's operations as part of...
Wednesday 1 July 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix southwest fab plans put Gwangju's silicon photonics ambitions in focus
Samsung Electronics' and SK Hynix's planned memory investments in South Korea's southwest have mostly been viewed as a push to balance regional development and tap into local renewable...
Wednesday 1 July 2026
Tesla taps Intel 18A veteran to lead Terafab chip project in Texas

Tesla has hired Gary Jiang, a nearly 18-year Intel manufacturing veteran, as director of its Terafab chip project in Texas, marking...

Wednesday 1 July 2026
Supermicro smuggling probes reportedly push Nvidia to tighten AI server checks further

As the US tightens controls on advanced AI chip exports, smuggling schemes are surfacing across the AI server supply chain, driven...

Wednesday 1 July 2026
China's chip material makers riding the AI boom close in on Japan

Chinese semiconductor material manufacturers are accelerating investments in advanced products as Beijing pushes for greater self-sufficiency,...

Wednesday 1 July 2026
South Korea's southwest chip hub plan faces supplier gap
South Korea's plan to build a KRW800 trillion (approx. US$51 billion) memory fab cluster in the southwestern Honam region is running into an inconvenient fact: the region has the country's...
Wednesday 1 July 2026
Taiwan starts collecting carbon fee, with highest amount from semiconductor firms

Taiwan's carbon fee system has begun collecting payments, with the first batch covering 240 high-emitting companies across 461 factories...

Wednesday 1 July 2026
India Semiconductor Mission 2.0 reportedly clears Finance Ministry hurdle as govt highlights first-phase progress

India's proposed second phase of the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM 2.0) has reportedly taken a key step forward, clearing the Finance...

Wednesday 1 July 2026
AI fuels OSAT pricing power as chip packaging orders fill through 2027
Cloud AI demand is reshaping the seasonal cycle of the semiconductor industry, with capacity tightness spreading from front-end manufacturing to back-end packaging and testing. Since...
Wednesday 1 July 2026
AI chip complexity stretches electronic materials order windows to six months, DuPont spinoff warns

As the AI wave drives rapid growth across the global semiconductor industry, the upstream electronic materials supply chain has become...

Wednesday 1 July 2026
Naphtha supply risk adds pressure to semiconductor materials
A crude oil shortage tied to the US-Iran war is raising concern about naphtha, a refinery byproduct used deep in industrial supply chains. While a direct semiconductor shortage is...