CONNECT WITH US
NEWS TAGGED CHIPS + COMPONENTS
Wednesday 4 November 2026
Former Intel packaging chief Navid Shahriari joins MediaTek as senior vice president
MediaTek announced that Navid Shahriari will join the company on November 9 as Senior Vice President, reporting to the General Manager and Chief Operating Officer.
Wednesday 4 November 2026
Innodisk advances AI data center push with eSSD, DDR5 products
Industrial memory module maker Innodisk is deepening its AI data center strategy by supplying critical components for AI infrastructure, including enterprise solid-state drives (eSSDs)...
Wednesday 4 November 2026
Broadcom loses final appeal over Samsung chip supply deal
South Korea's Supreme Court has upheld a KRW18.664 billion (approx. US$13.9 million) fine against Broadcom for pressuring Samsung Electronics into a long-term smartphone component...
Wednesday 4 November 2026
Onsemi to buy Ferric for US$600M to strengthen AI processor power delivery
Onsemi has agreed to acquire Ferric, Inc., a developer of integrated voltage regulator (IVR) technology, for US$600 million in cash plus up to US$175 million in contingent consideration...
Wednesday 4 November 2026
Global chip sales top US$500 billion in a single quarter for first time
Worldwide semiconductor revenue reached US$517.7 billion in the third quarter of 2026, a 24.1% increase from the prior quarter, according to data released by the Semiconductor Industry...
Wednesday 4 November 2026
Marvell's Lumentum deal gives optical DSP rivals until 2028 to court its customers
Marvell's proposed all-stock acquisition of Lumentum faces a challenge beyond a shrinking takeover premium: whether optical module makers will shift orders away from its dominant optical...
Wednesday 4 November 2026
Intel reportedly targets DDR4 upgrades with Raptor Lake Next
DDR4 memory, once gradually fading from the market, is regaining popularity as tight DRAM supply drives DDR5 prices higher. Following AMD's revival of processors supporting the AM4...
Wednesday 4 November 2026
GCS Holdings welcomes Marvell's Lumentum deal, locks in 2027 InP supply
Marvell Technology and optical communications laser maker Lumentum announced on November 2 that they had signed a definitive agreement for Marvell to acquire Lumentum in an all-stock...
Wednesday 4 November 2026
Samsung to reportedly make AMD, Nvidia HBM base dies at second Texas fab
Samsung Electronics plans to produce high-bandwidth memory (HBM) base dies for AMD at its second foundry plant in Taylor, Texas, with the US chipmaker accounting for most of the facility's...
Wednesday 4 November 2026
AI flash could cost 90% less per GB to make than HBM4 but squeeze NAND supply
High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) could give AI accelerators more memory at roughly one-tenth the manufacturing cost per gigabyte of HBM4. But producing it could consume far more wafer capacity...
Wednesday 4 November 2026
Explosion at Panasonic CCL plant in Taiwan injures five, two missing
Panasonic Industrial Devices Materials Taiwan's Hukou plant experienced an explosion and fire early on November 4, injuring five employees and leaving two others unaccounted for. The...
Wednesday 4 November 2026
High-speed optical communications drive demand for mSAP competition among Taiwan PCB makers
As AI computing clusters continue to expand, data centers are demanding higher transmission speeds and greater bandwidth. To overcome the manufacturing bottlenecks of traditional high-density...
Wednesday 4 November 2026
Solidigm IPO cancellation puts SK Hynix's Kioxia stake in focus
SK Hynix's decision to halt evaluation of a Solidigm pre-IPO and IPO has renewed questions over how it will finance a planned NAND flash plant in the US. Selling remaining assets linked...
Wednesday 4 November 2026
GigaDevice sees tight niche DRAM supply, slower price gains
AI demand continues to heat up while major global memory makers shift capacity toward higher-value products, keeping niche memory supplies tight in the near term. China-based IC design...
Wednesday 4 November 2026
Decoy processors carry Korean HBM past US export controls into China
A loophole in US export controls reportedly lets high-bandwidth memory (HBM) made by Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix reach China's AI chip industry. The loophole shows how much Huawei's...