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Wednesday 14 October 2026
300mm fab equipment spending to hit US$227 billion by 2029, SEMI says
Global spending on 300mm front-end fab equipment is projected to reach US$149 billion in 2026, up 31% from a year earlier. Spending is expected to keep growing at double-digit rates...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
AI accelerator growth shifts toward value as custom ASICs move upmarket
The AI accelerator market is set to reach US$1.4 trillion by 2030, up 150% from Bloomberg Intelligence's January 2026 estimate of US$560 billion, as higher prices—not just shipment...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
Yaskawa targets 2030 humanoid robot rollout as AI lifts forecast
Japan's Yaskawa Electric plans to launch humanoid robots within the next one to two years and expects AI-powered humanoid robots to enter widespread use around 2030. The company also...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
Applied Materials lifts 2030 margin goals, but a missing industry forecast sends a disappointing signal
Applied Materials used its investor day to argue that AI will let it outgrow the chip equipment market through 2030. Investors, however, focused on what the company left out: a forecast...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Charts: ASE tops NT$200B revenue in 3Q26 on AI OSAT demand
ASE reported September revenue of NT$88.13 billion (US$2.7 billion), up 7.15% month-over-month and 45.52% year-over-year, marking a record high for the third consecutive month. Third-quarter...
Monday 12 October 2026
Largan signals early peak-season cut, challenging phone chips in 4Q26
Largan chairman and CEO Adam Lin said October 2026 orders are tracking at roughly the same level as September's, but will begin declining in November as customers cut their forecasts...
Friday 9 October 2026
MediaTek 3Q26 revenue beats forecast, maintains peak-season momentum
MediaTek reported its September and third-quarter 2026 revenue results, with September revenue of NT$55.40 billion (approx. US$1.74 billion), down 13.69% from the previous month and...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Pricey local AI machines arrive as memory costs threaten PC shipments
As soaring memory prices are forecast to cut PC shipments, a new class of expensive machines built to run large AI models locally, from Nvidia's RTX Spark laptops to Apple's Mac Studio...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Tokyo Electron eyes record profit on chipmakers' spending boom
Tokyo Electron (TEL) could post an operating profit of about JPY1 trillion (approx. US$6.32 billion) for the fiscal year ending March 2027, up roughly 60% from JPY624.9 billion a year...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
September auto market beats expectations; Hotai sees stable Q4
Hotai Motor said Taiwan's auto market should remain stable in the fourth quarter, after September sales came in better than expected and the company kept its full-year 2026 forecast...
Friday 2 October 2026
Samsung's mobile unit faces more than KRW1 trillion loss as memory costs surge
Samsung Electronics is expected to report another operating loss at its Mobile eXperience and network business in the third quarter of 2026, even as strong Galaxy Z foldable sales...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Jabil targets US$17.5 billion in data center revenue as it builds out power, cooling, and networking
Jabil's plan for fiscal 2027 puts a price tag on its move from building servers to building the power, cooling, and networking systems around them. The company expects about US$17.5...
Tuesday 22 September 2026
Chinese AMOLED material suppliers set for revenue gains as Gen 8 fabs boost localization
Chinese AMOLED material suppliers are poised to gain market share as new 8G OLED fabs expand capacity in China. The shift could reshape supply chains for global display buyers, while...
Monday 21 September 2026
ACM Research's Shanghai unit leans on overseas installs, panel-level plating for its next leg of growth

ACM Research Shanghai is staking its growth case on two developments: planned tool installations at customers outside mainland China...

Friday 18 September 2026
Foldable smartphone panel shipments fall 13% in 1H26 as market shifts to in-fold designs
Global foldable smartphone panel shipments declined 13% year-over-year in the first half of 2026, with the contraction concentrated in clamshell products, according to Counterpoint...