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Wednesday 4 November 2026
CAS Space's Kinetica-2 joins Spacesail deployment, raising stakes for China's commercial rockets
Chinese commercial launch provider CAS Space launched its Kinetica-2 rocket at 8:15:25am on 3 November from the Dongfeng Commercial Aerospace Innovation Experimental Zone, placing...
Wednesday 4 November 2026
DeepSeek V5 reportedly targets Huawei Ascend 950 training in 2027, a crucial test for a Chinese alternative to Nvidia
DeepSeek plans to use Huawei's Ascend 950 chips as the core training hardware for its next-generation V5 model, potentially extending the companies' partnership from inference to full...
Tuesday 3 November 2026
TSMC's next US chip plant could land in Sherman
Sherman, a city north of Dallas, has emerged as a possible site for TSMC's next US chip plant, with Texas development documents describing a proposed US$45 billion investment in two...
Tuesday 3 November 2026
China's chip packagers ride AI demand, price hikes, but investment gains, capex cloud the profit picture
China's outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) companies entered the fourth quarter with rising sales, high utilization, and an industry-wide price upturn. Their third-quarter...
Saturday 31 October 2026
TSIA 30: Taiwan builds the AI backbone — but can it capture the AI economy?
Taiwan already manufactures much of the physical infrastructure on which the AI boom depends. Advanced logic, packaging, substrates, testing, power delivery, cooling, and server assembly...
Friday 30 October 2026
ASE expects packaging and testing margins to stay above 30%
ASE Technology Holding (ASEH) expects gross margins in its packaging and testing business to remain above 30% in 2027 as growing demand for AI-related advanced packaging helps the...
Friday 30 October 2026
HyperAccel, Rebellions look beyond chips to AI data center systems
South Korean AI chip developers HyperAccel and Rebellions are moving beyond standalone accelerators to develop integrated data center systems, seeking to combine domestic processors,...
Friday 30 October 2026
FCC to bar Chinese testing labs from certifying electronics for US market

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted rules that will effectively bar Chinese laboratories from testing electronic devices...

Friday 30 October 2026
Taiwan manufacturing demand rises as bank property loans decline
Strong demand for AI applications and cloud services is driving investment in high-performance computing chips and AI servers, prompting Taiwan manufacturers to expand capacity and...
Friday 30 October 2026
Beyond nanometers: AI forces Taiwan's semiconductor ecosystem to compete at system level
Taiwan's semiconductor rise was built on a powerful division of labor: world-class IC design feeding increasingly advanced foundries, supported by packaging, testing, and an unusually...
Friday 30 October 2026
ASE Holdings raises 2026 capex to US$11.5 billion after profit surge
ASE Technology Holding reported net profit of NT$26.996 billion (US$831 million) for the third quarter of 2026, a 28% increase from the previous quarter and a 148% gain from a year...
Thursday 29 October 2026
Virgin Galactic moves new spacecraft, targets commercial flights in 2027
Virgin Galactic on October 28 moved its first Delta-class suborbital spacecraft, D1, from its assembly facility in Mesa, Arizona, to its operations base at Spaceport America in New...
Thursday 29 October 2026
LB Semicon to expand PMIC capacity under 10-year Qualcomm deal
South Korean semiconductor packaging and testing company LB Semicon reportedly plans to invest KRW30 billion (approx. US$22.4 million) to expand its power management IC (PMIC) back-end...
Thursday 29 October 2026
PHP2Shell vulnerabilities expose global websites to severe cybersecurity risks
Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP are testing organizations' ability to identify exposed web infrastructure and deploy security updates, while prompting cloud, network, and endpoint...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
AMD, Nvidia target substrate capacity amid 4x expansion constraints
AMD and Nvidia have separately invested in supply-chain capacity expansion, making substrates, packaging, and testing key priorities as AI demand diversifies. The moves show that chipmakers...