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Saturday 10 October 2026
TPCA Show 2026 to spotlight AI computing, Unimicron chair keynote
As explosive AI computing demand drives hardware architecture change, Taiwan Printed Circuit Association (TPCA) is set to open its annual flagship event, with the 21st International...
Saturday 10 October 2026
JNTC bets US$259 million on glass substrates ahead of 2028 ramp
South Korea's JNTC plans to invest KRW347 billion (approx. US$259 million) in glass substrate manufacturing as it reports a sharp reduction in copper-filling time for thick glass cores,...
Saturday 10 October 2026
Advanced packaging leads Malaysia's push up the chip value chain as AI reshapes demand, says Yole analyst
Malaysia is moving from traditional semiconductor back-end manufacturing toward higher value-added work, with advanced packaging set to drive growth over the next two to three years,...
Friday 9 October 2026
GlobalFoundries wins US$2 billion TSMC interposer deal, closing a US packaging gap
GF said on October 8, 2026, that it has signed a multi-year, US$2 billion manufacturing agreement with TSMC to produce silicon interposers for TSMC's CoWoS ecosystem at its Malta,...
Friday 9 October 2026
Applied Materials, Intel target AI chip bottlenecks with interconnect scaling and Foveros 3D
AI chip manufacturing demands are accelerating development of advanced logic and packaging technologies, prompting Applied Materials and Intel to expand their collaboration on next-generation...
Thursday 8 October 2026
India's chip packaging plants start exporting, but scale, skills, and subsidies test the next phase
India's outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) sector has moved from inaugurations to its first export shipments. The challenge now is scale. The new plants are small, still...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Malaysia's chip push: a new island and pressure from Washington and Beijing
Malaysia's plan to climb the semiconductor value chain is colliding with two constraints: a shortage of land in Penang, the heart of its chip industry, and mounting pressure to pick...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Towa returns strategic chip packaging production to Japan as AI demand accelerates
Towa plans to build a new factory in Kyoto Prefecture to produce assembly and packaging equipment for advanced semiconductors used in artificial intelligence applications.
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Apple Watch sensor demand and InP supply tightness lift TASC's 2H26 outlook
Taiwan-Asia Semiconductor Corporation (TASC) expects a stronger second half of 2026 as new Apple Watch demand lifts sensor orders. The company said weak consumer electronics demand...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Semicon 2.0 widens focus beyond fabs: Dassault Systèmes pitches virtual twins to India's chipmakers
Dassault Systèmes is pitching its virtual twin software as the link between India's chip design base and the factories and packaging plants now being built under the country's...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Hua Yang, Zeiss launch COSMA-M for chip metrology
Hua Yang Precision Machinery has teamed up with Zeiss to launch COSMA-M, a high-precision measurement system aimed at the semiconductor metrology market as demand surges from AI, high-performance...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
AMD to expand Taiwan supply chain investment as AI demand drives capacity needs
AMD CEO Lisa Su said the company plans to further increase investment in Taiwan's semiconductor supply chain as demand for CPUs, GPUs, and AI computing continues to outpace available...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Taiwan bets on SiPh, CPO to tackle AI data center power bottlenecks
Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) has launched two research programs targeting silicon photonics (SiPh) and next-generation AI data center power systems, seeking...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Samsung steps up HBM cooling as TSMC expands CoWoS
Samsung Electronics is expanding its thermal-management efforts for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) beyond the memory stack as increasingly large chip packages raise heat-management ch...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Behind the US$4.2 trillion revenue gap in AI infrastructure
AI data center plans and computing demand are expanding far faster than physical infrastructure can be built, creating a widening gap between planned and actually deployed compute...