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Tuesday 20 January 2026
AI server watch: AI servers lift Taiwan supply chain broadly in 2025, gains center on ODM/EMS, cooling, optical
Taiwan's AI server supply chain delivered broad-based growth in 2025, fueled by surging generative AI and cloud data center spending, but the biggest gains clustered around two areas:...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
PowerTech and ChipMOS report robust November profits amid strong memory demand
Memory packaging and testing firms PowerTech Technology and ChipMOS Technologies recorded significant profit increases in November 2025, reflecting robust demand in the memory sector...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
Incentives out, tariffs in: Why Micron's New York megafab matters far beyond memory chips
The global contest for semiconductor leadership took a confrontational turn this week. US officials used Micron Technology's groundbreaking in upstate New York to deliver blunt warnings...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
Micron's DRAM licensing to Powerchip reshapes DDR4 supply
After more than two months of negotiations, Micron has signed an exclusive letter of intent (LOI) with Powerchip, agreeing to acquire the latter's 12-inch wafer fab (P5) in Tongluo,...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
Nanya Technology posts 4Q25 profit over NT$10 billion, plans NT$50 billion capex in 2026
Memory maker Nanya Technology reported a strong rebound in the fourth quarter of 2025, driven by a more than 30% rise in DRAM average selling prices compared with the previous quarter...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
Memory supply constraints and rising costs force China's smartphone brands to scale back 2026 shipment forecasts
China's major smartphone manufacturers are revising their 2026 shipment forecasts downward amid tightening memory supply and surging prices, according to Jiemian News. Xiaomi,...
Tuesday 20 January 2026
Samsung Device Solutions eyes 47% bonuses after profit surge

Samsung Electronics on January 16 announced payout ratios for its 2025 excess profit performance incentive, with the Device Solutions...

Tuesday 20 January 2026
Rising memory prices threaten consumer electronics growth, squeezing smartphone, notebook, and TV markets
Memory price increases are significantly affecting consumer electronics, with smartphones and notebooks facing the greatest challenges, while TVs experience milder but still notable...
Monday 19 January 2026
SSD controllers face five challenges as NAND shortage drives sky-high prices
NAND flash prices have increased dramatically. Supply and demand are unlikely to ease this year as AI technology giants and large cloud service providers (CSPs) aggressively purchase...
Monday 19 January 2026
Micron sets 1γ as mainstream node for 2026 as HBM and SOCAMM2 ramp
With shipments of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and XPUs expected to rise sharply in 2026, AI accelerators are set to continue relying on fifth-generation high-bandwidth...
Monday 19 January 2026
TSMT bets on DRAM modules to fuel 2026 growth as consumer demand cools
Taiwan Surface Mounting Technology Corp. said revenue returned to growth in 2025 after two consecutive years of decline, though rising prices and tight supply of key components are...
Monday 19 January 2026
China's Innosilicon launches LPDDR6 IP with commercial shipments
As AI smartphones and AI PCs surge, end devices demand unprecedented memory bandwidth. Recently, Chinese interface IP provider Innosilicon announced that its self-developed LPDDR6/5X...
Monday 19 January 2026
Weekly news roundup: memory shortages, packaging power, TSMC's global pivot
Below are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories of the week of January 12-18, 2026.
Monday 19 January 2026
Advantest ATE lead times remain tight as AI and memory markets expand
As demand strengthens in markets such as GPUs and high-bandwidth memory (HBM), Japan-based Advantest said orders for semiconductor automated test equipment (ATE) remain stable, with...
Monday 19 January 2026
Ardentec utilization rate rises through 2025 on chip testing demand from networking, automotive, and storage sectors
Semiconductor testing company Ardentec reported steady utilization growth through 2025, driven by strong chip-testing orders from the networking, automotive, and storage markets. The...