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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...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Beyond 16 layers: HBM stacks test advanced packaging equipment makers
At Singapore's Innovate Together 2026 conference on September 25, equipment makers including ASM, ASMPT, and KLA said the challenges facing next-generation advanced packaging are expanding...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
South Korea looks beyond high-nickel NCM in battery push
South Korea is broadening its battery strategy beyond high-nickel NCM, stepping up investment in sodium-ion, all-solid-state and lower-cost technologies after acknowledging that its...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Posco Future M lands KRW1.1 trillion LFP cathode deal with SK On
Posco Future M signed a large lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathode materials supply contract with SK On for 2027 to 2029, in a deal worth about KRW1.1 trillion (US$810 million). The...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Taiwan PCB output hits record high on AI demand, putting NT$1 trillion year within reach

AI server, high-speed networking, and memory demand continued to lift Taiwan's PCB industry in the second quarter of 2026, boosting...

Sunday 27 September 2026
South Korea's 300mm research gap: Daejeon pitches an open fab as a US$1.46 billion fix
Daejeon is seeking to build a roughly KRW2 trillion (approx. US$1.46 billion) national semiconductor research hub centered on an open 300mm manufacturing and demonstration fab, aiming...
Friday 25 September 2026
Trump-Xi summit leaves rare-earth issue unresolved amid yttrium supply squeeze
The Trump-Xi summit left rare-earth supplies among the unresolved issues in US-China economic relations, as the US and Japan confront uneven access to yttrium, a little-known rare-earth...