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Wednesday 1 October 2025
Intel & TSMC invest billions to transform Arizona into semiconductor powerhouse
More and more tech giants have followed TSMC's lead after its announcement of a US$165 billion investment to build more plants in Arizona. A half mountain, half desert state is slowly...
Wednesday 1 October 2025
Yageo surpasses minimum share acceptance in public tender offer to acquire Anpec Electronics
Taiwan's Yageo has successfully crossed the minimum acceptance threshold in its public tender offer to acquire power management IC designer Anpec Electronics, reaching this milestone...
Wednesday 1 October 2025
China's 12-inch SiC leap: SICC, Jingsheng in spotlight
The global race in third-generation semiconductors is intensifying, with larger silicon carbide (SiC) wafers seen as critical to cutting costs and enhancing power device performance...
Wednesday 1 October 2025
China's copper foil sector pushes back against price war with processing fee hike
China's PCB industry has, in recent years, been entangled in a vicious price war, leading many local PCB manufacturers to collapse under the pressure of internal cutthroat competition...
Tuesday 30 September 2025
TSMC 2025 full-year revenue set to break US$100 billion
Although semiconductor chip tariffs have yet to be finalized, with exchange rates stabilizing and strong pull-in momentum from major smartphone and AI chip clients, TSMC's third quarter...
Tuesday 30 September 2025
Allied Circuit, Meiko to co-build high-layer PCB plant in Vietnam for AI servers
Compal Electronics' PCB subsidiary, Allied Circuit Co., Ltd. (ACCL), has announced a joint venture with Japan's Meiko to establish a high-layer count (HLC) printed circuit board plant...
Tuesday 30 September 2025
PCB giant GCE expands Thailand plant phase 2, ASIC server capacity to start 2H26
Networking and server PCB giant GCE announced plans to expand its Thailand facility with a US$40 million investment to boost ASIC server production capacity by the second half of...
Saturday 27 September 2025
Infineon, Rohm sign MOU to support flexible SiC power device shipments
Infineon Technologies announced on September 25, 2025, that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Japanese semiconductor manufacturer Rohm Semiconductor to collaborate...
Friday 26 September 2025
Anpec says share price undervalued in Yageo public tender offer
Taiwanese passive components maker Yageo, on September 11, 2025, unilaterally announced plans to invest over NT$4.8 billion (US$158 million) to acquire a major stake in power management...
Friday 26 September 2025
Ennostar advances AI optical communication with X-Celeprint partnership to promote SiPh integration
Ennostar, a Taiwan-based developer of optoelectronic semiconductors, is actively expanding its presence in the AI optical communication market. It has announced a collaboration with...
Thursday 25 September 2025
Memory shortage drives BT substrate orders, boosting 4Q25 growth momentum
The memory market shortage has reignited a new wave of price increases. As supply tightens for NAND flash storage memory, traditional hard disk drives (HDD) and solid-state drives...
Wednesday 24 September 2025
Taiwan's three major science parks report chip-driven record revenue in 1H25
The National Science and Technology Council's three major science parks achieved a combined revenue of NT$2.74 trillion (approximately US$90.6 billion) in the first half of 2025,...
Wednesday 24 September 2025
Why your next PC or smartphone will cost more: chipmakers, suppliers raise prices amid AI frenzy
Escalating tariffs, high inflation, and a shift in supply chains to the US are driving up manufacturing costs, leaving little room for prices on consumer electronics and business...
Tuesday 23 September 2025
Nvidia-Intel alliance to boost long-term demand for ABF substrates
Nvidia and Intel have announced a rare partnership to jointly develop next-generation AI data center and PC platform chips. Despite predominantly negative market interpretations,...
Tuesday 23 September 2025
Yole Group CEO interview (Part 1): TSMC dominates AI era as supply chain dynamics undergo massive shifts
The semiconductor industry is experiencing its most dramatic transformation in decades, driven by artificial intelligence's relentless demand for computing power. Traditional boundaries...