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Thursday 1 October 2026
TCC Group targets Ukraine's postwar rebuild with cement acquisition
Taiwan Cement recently authorized its Dutch subsidiary, TCC Group EMEA Holdings B.V., to acquire 100% of Ukrainian cement materials maker Ivano-Frankivskcement (IFCEM), roofing materials...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Applied Materials' EPIC Center adds Kioxia for AI memory, 3D stacking push
Applied Materials announced that Kioxia will join its Equipment and Process Innovation and Commercialization (EPIC) Center in Silicon Valley, California. The two companies will collaborate...
Thursday 1 October 2026
China Rare Earth Group moves downstream, linking rare-earth magnets to robot direct-drive systems
China Rare Earth Innovation Technology and Beijing-based Direct Drive Tech signed a strategic cooperation agreement on September 29 to jointly develop high-performance magnetic materials...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Applied Materials and Kioxia team up on AI-era memory tech
Applied Materials and Kioxia are joining forces at a Silicon Valley research hub to develop next-generation memory technologies that could shape AI systems used worldwide. The collaboration...
Thursday 1 October 2026
SG Semiconductor builds brand and talent for Singapore chip industry
Singapore has launched the SG Semiconductor brand to strengthen its semiconductor profile and attract talent, aiming to create a globally recognizable industry identity beyond its...
Thursday 1 October 2026
How a TSMC veteran is steering Singapore's lab-to-fab chip strategy
Yee-Chia Yeo, vice president for innovation and enterprise at A*STAR, returned to Singapore in 2022 and has since turned years of industry experience into a strategy for advancing...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
China's battery race enters post-scale era: Beijing shifts focus to solid-state and quality
One of the most pronounced factors behind China's ferocious rise in the global technology landscape has been its unparalleled strength in the EV sector, where fierce competition over...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
NSIG chair exit brings leadership succession into focus
National Silicon Industry Group (NSIG) chairman Haitao Jiang has resigned from all positions at the company, prompting the Shanghai-listed semiconductor materials supplier to begin...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Linde secures Sanand land as global materials suppliers race to localize for India's first fabs
India's chip push is drawing the materials layer of the supply chain onshore. With Tata Electronics' Dholera fab and a cluster of packaging plants in Sanand under way, suppliers of...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
India bars Semicon 2.0 chip plants from selling or mortgaging assets before full production
India has barred semiconductor projects approved under its Semicon 2.0 program from selling, disposing of, or mortgaging project assets until commercial production of the entire project...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Grand Pacific Petrochemical, Air Water join forces to expand Taiwan semiconductor materials business
Taiwan-based chemical manufacturer Grand Pacific Petrochemical (GPPC) is optimizing its core business while actively expanding into high-tech and semiconductor materials-related industries,...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
AI boom strains PCB supply chain as materials, equipment shortages persist into 2027
Rapid growth in AI server and high-speed networking demand since the second half of 2025 has tightened supply across printed circuit boards (PCBs), integrated circuit (IC) substrates,...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Powering Next-Gen AI: Materials Enabling Advanced Packaging's Future

As artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) drive unprecedented demands on semiconductor performance, materials are playing an increasingly critical...

Tuesday 29 September 2026
In global semiconductor race, Singapore bets on critical, mature technologies
Amid the ongoing restructuring of the global semiconductor supply chain, Singapore is focusing on advanced packaging, heterogeneous integration, silicon photonics, and optical interconnects,...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
AI boom sends China and Taiwan's PCB makers racing to HK for capital
Global investment in AI infrastructure is expanding rapidly, driving specification upgrades across the supply chain, from AI servers to high-speed optical modules, and pushing printed...