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Friday 16 January 2026
Research Insight: Taiwanese network vendors face mounting cost pressures from memory shortages
The surge in artificial intelligence (AI) applications has pushed cloud service providers to increase capital expenditures on data centers, prompting major memory manufacturers to...
Friday 16 January 2026
Memory supply shortage to boost secondhand smartphone market growth
The ongoing memory supply shortage is impacting overall smartphone shipments, with no immediate resolution in sight. Market forecasts predict a decline in global smartphone demand...
Thursday 15 January 2026
SK Hynix accelerates Yongin fab launch by three months
SK Hynix plans to bring forward the opening of a new semiconductor factory by three months and will also begin operating another new plant in February 2026, as surging memory demand...
Thursday 15 January 2026
South Korea's memory chip giants pivot back to capacity expansion

As the global memory market enters a prolonged upcycle, South Korea's two leading memory chipmakers, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix,...

Thursday 15 January 2026
Memory supply bottlenecks to drive PC price hikes and spec reductions through 2027
Global memory shortages are expected to continue until late 2027, leading to higher costs for PCs, tablets, and smartphones. In an interview with The Register, IDC research...
Thursday 15 January 2026
Samsung reportedly files new HBM trademarks as HBM4 advances
Samsung Electronics has reportedly filed a series of new trademarks related to high bandwidth memory as it advances preparations for its sixth-generation HBM4 products.
Thursday 15 January 2026
Exclusive: T-Glass shortage ripples through memory and advanced packaging markets

The global memory industry is confronting a growing capacity crunch, one that is increasingly rippling upstream to a shortage of glass...

Thursday 15 January 2026
Rising memory prices lift Taiwan supply chain earnings

The global memory industry entered a clear upturn in the second half of 2025 as both spot and contract prices rose sharply, lifting earnings...

Wednesday 14 January 2026
SK Hynix to invest in new advanced packaging plant amid AI memory demand
SK Hynix has announced plans to invest KRW19 trillion (US$13.02 billion) to construct a new advanced packaging facility, P&T7, in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, South Korea...
Wednesday 14 January 2026
SK Hynix reportedly trims consumer memory, shifts focus to servers

Surging demand for AI hardware is prompting memory makers to reassess their product portfolios as resources shift toward higher-margin...

Wednesday 14 January 2026
CXMT launches US$4bn bid to break DRAM market control
Surging artificial intelligence (AI) workloads have triggered a global shortage of HBM, tightening DRAM and NAND supply and pushing prices sharply higher. US PC maker HP is now evaluating...
Wednesday 14 January 2026
Realtek and Phison compete to enter Nvidia's AI supply chain as memory tech upgrades
An internal structural photo of Nvidia's Quantum-X Photonics silicon photonics (SiPh) switch revealed that its solid-state drive (SSD) controller chip was branded with the iconic Realtek...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
Taiwan OSAT sector posts broad 2025 revenue gains as AI testing offsets weak consumer recovery
Taiwan's outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) industry closed December 2025 with a pattern that investors have increasingly come to expect: revenue growth was widespread...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
Micron warns AI memory crunch to last until 2028 as Idaho fab crawls online
The global AI boom is pushing the memory industry to its limits. Demand for DRAM and high-bandwidth memory (HBM) continues to rise, while supply remains constrained, with Micron warning...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
Unprecedented AI infrastructure frenzy sparks global memory shortage, hits consumer wallets
The global race to build AI data centers has triggered an unexpected casualty: the memory supply that powers everyday consumer electronics.