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Thursday 23 July 2026

Merck makes 'AI for AI' its new semiconductor materials strategy

As the global AI race intensifies, Germany's Merck is extending its reach into semiconductor materials research with an "AI for AI"...

Thursday 23 July 2026

GlobalWafers Italy 8-inch plant fire disrupts output, 12-inch line stays online

GlobalWafers said its Novara plant in Italy caught fire on July 21, forcing a shutdown of the site's 8-inch production line. The silicon wafer maker said all personnel evacuated safely...

Thursday 23 July 2026

SK Hynix speeds P&T7 cleanroom rollout, keeps overall budget at KRW19 trillion

SK Hynix's board approved approximately KRW 7.09 trillion (approx. US$4.83 billion) in facility investment on July 22 to accelerate construction of its P&T7 advanced packaging...

Thursday 23 July 2026

Ainos passes 613 million odor data points as it expands Physical AI

Ainos said its AI Nose platform has collected more than 613 million industrial odor data points, with most of the readings coming from semiconductor manufacturing sites. The AI odor-sensing...

Thursday 23 July 2026

Commentary: Intel must show real AI orders to prove its turnaround

Agentic AI is rapidly gaining traction worldwide, while cloud giants and Anthropic are accelerating spending on AI infrastructure. That surge is pulling CPU demand back to the center...

Thursday 23 July 2026

Jensen Huang says no need to 'point a gun' at Taiwan as chipmakers expand in US

Taiwan's links with US technology firms are reshaping chip supply chains, with implications for investors and policymakers worldwide. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said those ties have strengthened...

Thursday 23 July 2026

Texas Instruments 2Q26: Revenue beats at $5.46B as industrial and auto recovery silences fab-spend doubters

Texas Instruments delivered a second-quarter 2026 result that topped Wall Street expectations and, more importantly for the industry, signaled that the analog chip cycle is turning...

Thursday 23 July 2026

Laser source outsourcing pushes back CPO rollout

While the commercialization timeline for co-packaged optics (CPO) has not accelerated as expected from the AI data center-driven demand for high-speed transmission, industry players...

Thursday 23 July 2026

ITRI, tech execs tackle AI power and thermal bottlenecks at forum as chip demand soars

As AI computing drives surging electricity demand and heat generation, Taiwan's government-funded Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) brought together government officials...

Thursday 23 July 2026

With competitiveness hitting record levels, Taiwan should learn from US in talent retention, urges president

With Taiwan's competitiveness setting a new high, President Ching-te Lai on July 21 called on local companies to learn from the US and work together to retain talent. The remarks came...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

Explainer: Why Wistron opened a factory in Texas — why it's the first node in America's reindustrialization

When Wistron opened its 324,000-square-foot plant in Fort Worth, Texas on July 21, it was easy to read the moment as a single company's...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

Samsung sounds out suppliers on four new fabs by 2030, report says

Samsung Electronics is sounding out major suppliers about whether they can support four proposed new semiconductor fabrication plants through 2030, as South Korea's chipmakers prepare...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

CPO commercialization opens new SiPh packaging race for Taiwan OSATs

Exploding demand for AI server computing power is pushing data-center architectures to upgrade at a faster pace, and the traditional...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

Commentary: Gulf state's Sovereign Wealth Fund pours into ASEAN, eyeing stake in AI infrastructure supply chains

ASEAN's AI boom is taking on a dual role as both a "no-man's land" and an international hub from Singapore's perspective, while investors...

Wednesday 22 July 2026

Albany NanoTech Complex acquires ASML High NA EUV tools for chip research

Parts of ASML's next-generation high numerical aperture (High NA) extreme ultraviolet (EUV) machine have arrived in New York state, where they will be used for chipmaking R&D....

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