The Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA) expects its members' total output to exceed NT$9.1 trillion (US$279.5 billion) in 2026, a 40.9% year-over-year increase driven...
Samsung Electronics has secured a 2nm foundry order from Taiwan-based ASIC design house Faraday Technology. This win expands the application scope of Samsung's 2nm process from mobile...
GlobalFoundries (GF) is betting on specialty semiconductor technologies to capture AI demand beyond advanced processors, targeting opportunities in data center connectivity, power...
Intel has agreed to acquire Israeli quantum software company Classiq, as CEO Lip-Bu Tan positions quantum computing as a "third pillar" alongside CPUs and GPUs. The deal, whose price...
ASE Technology Holding reported net profit of NT$26.996 billion (US$831 million) for the third quarter of 2026, a 28% increase from the previous quarter and a 148% gain from a year...
AI is driving strong demand for silicon photonics, but LandMark Optoelectronics' planned sixfold capacity expansion over two years still falls short of customer requirements. The optical...
A fire broke out at the Innovation Plant of semiconductor epitaxial wafer maker Episil on October 28. The extent of equipment damage, the scope of production stoppages, and the recovery...
AUO has approved the sale of its Taichung Plant Phase II facilities and related infrastructure to TSMC for NT$38.8 billion (US$1.2 billion), excluding taxes, and has terminated a planned...
Samsung Electronics' third-quarter profit came almost entirely from charging more for memory chips, not from selling more of them. On its earnings call, the company also told investors...
Global server CPU shipments are projected to surpass the 50 million-unit milestone for the first time in 2027, reaching 52.6 million units as demand accelerates alongside the industry-wide...
South Korean semiconductor packaging and testing company LB Semicon reportedly plans to invest KRW30 billion (approx. US$22.4 million) to expand its power management IC (PMIC) back-end...
KLA expects global wafer fabrication equipment (WFE) spending to exceed US$200 billion in 2027, as semiconductor manufacturers accelerate investments in advanced logic, DRAM and high-bandwidth...
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) expects wafer foundry pricing to continue rising in 2027, with CEO Jason Wang projecting approximately 10% year-over-year growth in the company's...
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China's leading producer of DRAM memory, is reportedly planning to begin production of HBM3E, despite yields so far only reaching 20% to 30%. This...
SpaceX's Starship super-heavy rocket completed its 14th test flight on September 28, successfully reaching Earth orbit and deploying 26 next-generation Starlink V3 satellites. A 15th...
