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Friday 5 September 2025
China's AI agenda finds a backer: Ant Group expands into chips
Ant Group is ramping up investments in China's semiconductor industry, targeting several domestic chip startups. After securing dominance in payments and fintech, the company is shifting...
Friday 5 September 2025
Commentary: Advanced AI packaging driving semiconductor industry toward 'virtual integration'
Advanced packaging is rewriting the rules of the semiconductor industry. According to DIGITIMES Research, in 2024, global AI data center accelerators (covering GPUs and ASICs)...
Thursday 4 September 2025
Tech Forum 2025: Taiwan must embrace TSMC as the world's, says DIGITIMES chairman
DIGITIMES chairman Colley Hwang pointed out that from 2025 to 2026, the technology industry will revolve around three key terms: artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors, and...
Wednesday 3 September 2025
Etron chair optimistic about US Section 232 investigation results
Nicky Lu, chairman of Etron Technology, stated that the global semiconductor industry is expected to grow from US$300 billion in 2010 to US$2 trillion by 2040. Meanwhile, system applications...
Wednesday 3 September 2025
SK hynix Introduces Industry's First Commercial High NA EUV
SK hynix Inc. announced today that it has assembled the industry's first High NA EUV lithography system for mass production at the M16 fabrication plant in Icheon, South Korea.
Tuesday 2 September 2025
GlobalFoundries picks Qorvo exec Victor Hu to lead China strategy
GlobalFoundries (GF) has named Victor Hu, a semiconductor industry veteran with over 25 years of leadership experience, as vice president of sales and president of China. In this...
Monday 1 September 2025
Samsung and SK Hynix waiver revoked: Korean chipmakers hobbled, China memory benefits
The Trump administration has revoked long-standing exemptions that allowed Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix to use US equipment freely at their chip plants in China, a move that has...
Monday 1 September 2025
South Korea’s HBM pioneer highlights hybrid bonding and compute-in-memory trends
As artificial intelligence and high-performance computing continue to advance rapidly, high-bandwidth memory (HBM) paired with GPUs has become a critical battleground in the semiconductor...
Tuesday 19 August 2025
China's demand for AI chips and HBM equipment persists despite uncertainty over Nvidia H20 sales
China's semiconductor industry continues to expand capacity in mature process chips while strengthening self-production of AI chips, especially as the Chinese AI sector gained momentum...
Friday 15 August 2025
ASC emerges from July slump as semiconductor manufacturers continue global expansion
ASC, a key supplier of fluororesin equipment and materials for the semiconductor industry, currently holds orders worth over NT$4 billion (US$133.6 million), reflecting a recovery...
Thursday 14 August 2025
China's leading SiC epitaxy plants see quarterly order surge, signaling market bottom
China's SiC industry faces oversupply as 6-inch substrate prices plunge, prompting a strategic pivot to 8-inch wafers
Wednesday 13 August 2025
China's chip equipment spending surges in 1H25, defying global downturn
China's semiconductor industry posted CNY455 billion (approx. US$63.3 billion) in total investment during the first half of 2025, down 9.8% from a year earlier, according to a new...
Friday 8 August 2025
Beijing's grand chip merger vision falters over clashing interests

Beijing's push to restructure its fragmented semiconductor industry is running into sharp resistance. While the effort aims to strengthen...

Friday 1 August 2025
EU semiconductor gear tariff exemption fuels US fab expansion
The recent tariff exemption on semiconductor manufacturing equipment imported from the European Union into the US is poised to significantly influence the US semiconductor industry's...
Wednesday 30 July 2025
TSMC's C.C. Wei and Mark Liu receive semiconductor industry's highest honor
The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has named TSMC Chairman and CEO C.C. Wei and former Chairman Mark Liu as co-recipients of the 2025 Robert N. Noyce Award, the semiconductor...