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Monday 9 November 2026
Commentary: AI investment doubts rise, but chip demand keeps surging
Concerns over an overheating AI market have resurfaced, fueled by delays in data center construction, power and permitting bottlenecks, and the potential deferral of hundreds of billions...
Monday 9 November 2026
Surging AI demand turns CoWoS into a headache; securing packaging capacity becomes top priority, says MediaTek deputy GM
Surging demand for advanced packaging driven by artificial intelligence (AI) has turned chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) from an "interesting" technology into a headache, making...
Monday 9 November 2026
Semiconductor testing company KYEC keeps US AI chip testing plant on track despite election shift
King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) general manager Gauss Chang said the company's plan to establish a US testing facility in Texas remains on schedule despite concerns that a shift in control...
Monday 9 November 2026
India's semiconductor expansion faces testing capacity risks as OSAT investments advance
India's push to expand semiconductor assembly and packaging capacity risks outpacing the development of its chip testing infrastructure, potentially increasing costs and prolonging...
Monday 9 November 2026
Podcast highlights: Apple hoards supplies via long-term contracts; Intel reverts 18A to Intel 3
Recent earnings reports from Apple and Intel highlight growing supply-chain strain driven by soaring memory costs and massive AI infrastructure build-outs. DIGITIMES analyst...
Monday 9 November 2026
PMIC supplier GMT sees upside in potential AI spending slowdown
Taiwanese power management IC (PMIC) supplier Global Mixed-mode Technology (GMT) sees a potential slowdown in cloud AI spending as an opportunity to ease wafer capacity constraints...
Monday 9 November 2026
Nittobo's T-Glass supply crunch deepens despite 3.6-fold capacity expansion plan for AI chips
Japan's Nittobo (Nitto Boseki) plans to invest an additional JPY20 billion (approx. US$127 million) to expand production of T-Glass, a specialized low-coefficient-of-thermal-expansion...
Monday 9 November 2026
India roundup: India electronics manufacturing expands amid AI-driven supply constraints
India's electronics sector is drawing fresh investment in semiconductors, optical connectivity and manufacturing capacity, even as AI-driven component shortages threaten production,...
Monday 9 November 2026
Commentary: China's AI data center catch-up hinges on three US policy scenarios
The US AI data center expansion is entering a critical phase, with electricity supply and local governance emerging as major constraints. Democrat Gina Hinojosa's victory in the 2026...
Saturday 7 November 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: Cloud LLMs drive sharp increase in KV cache demand; establishes three key directions for SSD development
DIGITIMES observes that as large language models (LLMs) and agentic AI development become increasingly widespread, it is driving not only significant growth in data center CPU demand...
Friday 6 November 2026
Democrats constrain Trump as scarce AI capacity benefits CSPs
Democrats swept the US midterm elections, reshaping the global technology and industrial landscape. Their victories in key gubernatorial races, including in Texas and Georgia, have...
Friday 6 November 2026
China's NSIG sees silicon wafer prices rebound, but profitability remains elusive
National Silicon Industry Group (NSIG) expects to complete its expansion to 1.2 million 300mm silicon wafers per month by the end of 2026, positioning the Chinese semiconductor materials...
Friday 6 November 2026
Samsung speeds P5 Fab 2 construction as memory chip shortage looks to last through 2028
Samsung Electronics plans to begin structural work at its P5 Fab 2 facility in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, in January 2027, accelerating its memory capacity expansion as chip shortages...
Friday 6 November 2026
Meta faces political pushback over US data center expansion
The US midterm election and referendum results show broad public opposition to building more data centers, raising the prospect of tougher local-government reviews for large-scale...
Friday 6 November 2026
DDR, LPDDR revenue growth outpaces HBM as DRAM market nears US$200 billion
Revenue from conventional DDR and LPDDR memory grew faster than that from high-bandwidth memory (HBM) in the third quarter of 2026, as global DRAM revenue surged 369% year over year...