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Friday 14 August 2026
China PCB makers pour billions into AI server, HPC, optical markets
Chinese printed circuit board (PCB) makers are stepping up investment in higher-value markets including AI servers, high-performance computing (HPC) and optical communications. Following...
Friday 14 August 2026
Interview: 'Modern warfare is a battle of PAs'–Transcom targets overseas defense, LEO satellite growth

Amid escalating geopolitical tensions, defense awareness is rising rapidly worldwide, with drone and counter-drone technologies becoming...

Friday 14 August 2026
ABF substrate boom lifts Eternal Precision prices 20%

Strong Ajinomoto Build-Up Film (ABF) substrate demand has driven a surge in orders for vacuum laminating equipment, with Eternal Precision...

Friday 14 August 2026
Beyond silicon and copper: OCP APAC looks under the hood of future AI infrastructure
AI's appetite for compute is growing at such speeds that simply building bigger versions of today's data centers may no longer cut it.
Friday 14 August 2026
Korea's CNT pellicle race heats up as aweXome Ray pushes toward EUV commercialization
As South Korea's major memory manufacturers race to secure next-generation lithography technologies for increasingly advanced process nodes, the approaching High-NA EUV era is adding...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Pegatron stocks AI server parts early as shortages spread through supply chain
Pegatron Corp. said in its second-quarter 2026 results that its server business posted strong gains and that it had already begun preparing for demand in the second half of 2026 while...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Zhen Ding targets 50% revenue share from AI servers, optical modules, IC substrates by 2030

Zhen Ding Tech (ZDT), a major PCB supplier, said at its second-quarter 2026 earnings conference on August 11 that rising investment...

Thursday 13 August 2026
409.6T switches could push industry toward CPO, Arista says
Co-packaged optics (CPO) has become a major focus of the optical networking industry, but pluggable modules remain the mainstream choice for optical interconnects. At a silicon photonics...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Lenovo Capital backs Niobium Optoelectronics in Series B funding for TFLN chips
Jiangsu Niobium Optoelectronics Technology, a Chinese maker of thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonic chips, has closed a Series B funding round worth several hundred million yuan...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Can diamond rewrite the rules of AI chip cooling? Wiwynn is putting it to the test
As AI processors become more powerful, one of the industry's most stubborn constraints is becoming increasingly physical: there is only so much heat conventional materials can move...
Thursday 13 August 2026
LSE Semiconductor wins strategic investment from TIS

Lithography Semiconductor Equipment Co. (LSE) officially announced on August 11 that TECO Image Systems Co. (TIS) had completed a strategic...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
MediaTek, Realtek, Himax, Elan eye optical communications boom in 2027
The use of optical communications in cloud AI data-center interconnect architectures is rising sharply, and Taiwan IC design firms including MediaTek, Realtek Semiconductor, Himax...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
Nichidenbo sees MLCC supply tightness as AI pushes lead times to 36 weeks

Passive component distributor Nichidenbo said supply of MLCCs and other products remains tight as AI servers and ASIC applications...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: Murata upgrades power, optical products as AI data centers strain global infrastructure
Murata Manufacturing has unveiled upgraded power converters and optical components, highlighting how rising AI workloads are pushing data centers worldwide toward denser, more efficient...
Tuesday 11 August 2026
YAGEO, Walsin post record July sales as AI demand lifts passive components
YAGEO and Walsin Technology reported strong July 2026 revenue as artificial intelligence demand continued to lift Taiwan's passive components sector. Both companies said orders from...