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Tuesday 1 September 2026
Japan's chip materials makers reportedly deepen Taiwan ties as AI reshapes supply chains
Japanese semiconductor materials suppliers Ajinomoto and Daikin Industries are expanding their presence in Taiwan as the AI boom fuels demand for advanced chip materials and encourages...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Taiwan chip equipment maker Skytech opens advanced process lab with TSMC backing
Skytech and TSMC have opened an Advanced Process Laboratory focused on next-generation semiconductor manufacturing, highlighting TSMC's continued efforts to support Taiwan's domestic...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Imec CEO: AI era pushes broader ties between chip, model and CSP players
Imec CEO Patrick Vandenameele said during a media briefing at SEMICON Taiwan 2026 that the Belgian research center is broadening its collaboration base in the AI era, extending beyond...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
ASE CEO describes AI resource squeeze as a short-term problem
AI's early-stage growth is creating a short-term squeeze on land, talent, capital, and power in Taiwan, but there is no such thing as a world that cannot do without Taiwan, ASE Technology...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Marvell CTO: power and density bottlenecks are driving CPO adoption in AI data centers
Speaking at the Silicon Photonics Global Summit ahead of Semicon Taiwan 2026, Marvell Technology CTO Radha Nagarajan highlighted that the core focus for upgrading connectivity in the...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics takes glass substrates to Semicon Taiwan
As AI packages grow larger, the next substrate battleground is rapidly extending from traditional organic materials to glass. Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEMCO) will make its first...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
ASML says High NA EUV has reached its first high-volume logic product
ASML told a SEMICON Taiwan audience that its High NA EUV platform has been used for a high-volume logic product for the first time, a threshold the company frames as the point at which...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Trymax lands multi-year AOI order as InP laser capacity race tightens
Applied Optoelectronics (AOI) has placed a multi-year purchase order with Dutch equipment maker Trymax Semiconductor Equipment for plasma ashers and UV curing systems destined for...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
SEMI lifts 2028 wafer fab equipment forecast to US$220 billion
SEMI has raised its forecast for global wafer fab equipment (WFE) sales in 2028 to US$220 billion, up from about US$200 billion projected in July, as stronger investment in advanced...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Chinese court freezes US$318M in Nexperia assets, further escalating corp rift
A Chinese court has ordered the freezing of more than CNY2.14 billion (approx. US$318 million) in domestic assets belonging to Dutch semiconductor manufacturer Nexperia and its equipment...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Imec maps chip scaling to 2040, says AI's next gains need full-stack integration
Imec has extended its advanced semiconductor roadmap into the early 2040s, arguing that sustained AI scaling will depend on closer integration across logic, memory, interconnects and...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
TSMC delays CoWoS orders as CoPoS plans take shape
TSMC's reported delay in placing 2027 advanced packaging equipment orders has sparked market speculation that the company sees excess CoWoS capacity ahead. But equipment suppliers...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
JCET lifts 2026 capex to CNY10 billion as AI packaging demand outruns forecasts
JCET Group is sharply increasing spending as demand for artificial intelligence strains advanced packaging capacity worldwide. The Chinese chip tester and assembler said the shift...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
South Korea-India joint venture opens semiconductor materials plant, targets China-free supply chain
A South Korean-Indian joint venture has completed a semiconductor materials plant in South Korea, aiming to strengthen regional supply chains for photoresist materials and reduce reliance...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
India expands chip ambitions with full Semicon 2.0 notification
India has unveiled the next phase of its semiconductor policy, a move that could reshape global chip supply chains, investment flows, and talent markets. The expanded program aims...