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Thursday 9 July 2026
Lynas signs long-term partnership with JS Link for Malaysia magnet factory
Lynas Rare Earths has agreed to a long-term partnership with JS Link to develop a rare earth permanent magnet factory in Kuantan, Malaysia, a move that could reshape supply chains...
Thursday 9 July 2026
Gem Terminal June sales dipped as AI cooling and green power demand rose
Gem Terminal said June 2026 consolidated revenue fell from May because customers and internal teams carried out routine inventory counts, delaying some shipments. Even so, the Taiwan-based...
Thursday 9 July 2026
Nan Pao Resins posts June sales record on price hikes and early customer orders
Nan Pao Resins Chemical Group reported June revenue of NT$2.093 billion (US$65.27 million), up 12.8% from a year earlier and a record for the same month, as customers accelerated orders...
Thursday 9 July 2026
Aurona sees strong PCB demand as AI and high-end chip trends lift sales

Aurona Industries said demand for its PCB process materials remains strong, with order intake rising year over year, and high-end products...

Wednesday 8 July 2026
National Center for Instrumentation Research helps academia break 2D materials bottleneck
As AI infrastructure chip orders flood in and TSMC runs near nonstop, academia has found it difficult to carry out industry-academia collaboration with the world's top foundry house...
Wednesday 8 July 2026
LG Electronics posts higher 2Q26 revenue and operating profit

LG Electronics reported higher revenue and operating profit for the second quarter of 2026, supported by strong year-over-year growth...

Wednesday 8 July 2026
ThinTech Materials Technology eyes FOPLP gains, BNCT growth through 2028

ThinTech Materials Technology (TTMC) is currently the only supplier with technology transfer recognition approved for FOPLP metal substrates...

Tuesday 7 July 2026
China's sodium battery boom faces supply risk

China's sodium-ion battery sector is drawing intense attention as surging lithium carbonate prices lift lithium battery production costs...

Tuesday 7 July 2026
Exclusive: Geckos bets on AI materials beyond nano copper powders and CPO waveguides
As generative AI drives rapid growth in high-performance computing (HPC) demand, the semiconductor industry is shifting from process-node competition to materials competition. Geckos...
Tuesday 7 July 2026
Solstice Advanced Materials to buy Element Solutions in US$14.5 billion deal

The planned acquisition of Element Solutions by Solstice Advanced Materials would create a larger supplier serving electronics, data...

Tuesday 7 July 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix reportedly seek China-free chip tool buffer against US controls
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are reportedly accelerating efforts to reduce China's role in their semiconductor supply chains in preparation for the possibility of tighter US export...
Monday 6 July 2026
LG Chem begins first mass supply of semiconductor strippers to Amkor

LG Chem has begun supplying semiconductor strippers to Amkor Technology, a major US-based packaging and testing provider, in its first...

Monday 6 July 2026
Kingboard raises CCL prices again as AI demand tightens PCB material supply
Rising demand for AI servers and high-performance computing (HPC) continues to drive price increases across the upstream PCB materials supply chain.
Monday 6 July 2026
Micron breaks ground on Hiroshima expansion to boost AI memory chip production
Micron Technology has begun construction on an expansion of its existing semiconductor plant in Higashi-Hiroshima, western Japan, as part of a JPY1.5 trillion (approx. US$9.3 billion)...
Monday 6 July 2026
Asahi Kasei to expand Taiwan photoresist film capacity for AI chip packaging
Asahi Kasei, one of the notable suppliers of Sunfort dry film photoresist in Japan, has initiated a fab expansion project in Taiwan. The newly established plant is expected to further...