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Wednesday 30 September 2026
VSMC bets on value over cost as Singapore fab builds next-generation R&D and IP capabilities
VisionPower Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (VSMC), the joint venture between Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) and NXP Semiconductors, opened its 12-inch wafer fab in...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
CXMT's US$5.2 billion buildout deepens China's push for domestic DRAM equipment
China's largest dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is accelerating a CNY34.9 billion (US$5.2 billion) expansion aimed at chipmaking equipment,...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Jensen Huang rejects AI doomsday framing, calls safety an engineering problem
As warnings about catastrophic AI risks intensify, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is making a different case: AI safety should be treated as an engineering challenge, not a justification...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Chinese EV tech is set to challenge US market barriers over time
The Washington summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping did not produce the speculated auto deal that would have allowed Chinese automakers to manufacture vehicles in the US. While...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Trump opts for voluntary AI audits over new rules after White House summit with tech chiefs
US President Donald Trump has responded to mounting alarm over rogue AI agents with a voluntary industry pledge, two executive orders, and a new name for the technology rather than...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Acer turns 50, marks it with a musical produced by its founder

Acer marked its 50th anniversary on September 28, 2026, with the premiere of Smile for Half a Century, a commemorative musical that...

Wednesday 30 September 2026
Commentary: Garmin returns to OLED, putting Micro LED on notice
Garmin's decision to offer OLED options but no Micro LED version in its new flagship smartwatches, the fenix 9 and fenix 9 Pro, has revived debate over whether the emerging display...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
GlobalFoundries Singapore capacity utilization tops 90% as silicon photonics expansion hits equipment lead-time bottleneck
GlobalFoundries (GF) is expanding its Singapore footprint following its acquisition of local silicon photonics foundry Advanced Micro Foundry (AMF), integrating 200mm and 300mm silicon...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Micro LED smartwatches set back as costs remain a fatal hurdle
Micro LED has reached mass production in several end-market applications in recent years, but it is still facing intense competition from OLED. Garmin's new fenix 9 smartwatch has...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Apple iPhone Duo revives UDC battle as Samsung weighs trade-offs
Apple has launched its first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, adopting under-display camera (UDC) technology long used by Samsung Electronics. The move puts all-screen design back at...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Rare earths loom over US-China trade truce
The US-China trade truce was extended after last week's Trump-Xi summit, but China's dominance of rare-earth supply chains remains a key pressure point as Washington tries to stabilize...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Mercedes-Benz and ProLogium expand solid-state battery testing partnership
ProLogium Technology said it has signed a joint testing agreement with Mercedes-Benz, giving the automaker priority access to evaluate the battery maker's latest Gen4 cells. The companies...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
CXMT to spend US$5.2 billion on R&D and testing as DRAM supply stays tight
China's ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) plans to invest CNY34.9 billion (approx. US$5.2 billion) in technology R&D and additional back-end DRAM testing capacity, stepping up...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
SoftBank subsidiary Saimemory taps Shinko to bring ZAM closer to commercialization
Saimemory, a SoftBank subsidiary, has brought Shinko Electric Industries into its effort to commercialize Z-Angle Memory (ZAM), adding packaging-substrate, high-density integration...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Samsung reshuffles DRAM roadmap, prioritizing B1b hybrid bonding for D0a, HBM5
Samsung Electronics is reshaping its next-generation dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) roadmap, elevating its B1b wafer-to-wafer (W2W) hybrid bonding technology from a project-specific...