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Friday 14 August 2026
Samsung weighs moving legacy memory backend work to Vietnam to free up capacity for HBM
Samsung Electronics may move part of the general-purpose DRAM and NAND packaging and testing now handled at its Cheonan and Onyang sites in South Korea to Vietnam, potentially freeing...
Friday 14 August 2026
SK Hynix looks beyond memory with new global growth team
SK Hynix has set up a dedicated team to search for growth opportunities beyond its core memory business and has put a senior group executive in charge, a move aimed at turning the...
Friday 14 August 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics glass substrate plan slips, with mass production now seen after 2028
Samsung Electro-Mechanics has again delayed its semiconductor glass substrate commercialization schedule after a prototype reportedly failed a customer's reliability review. The setback...
Friday 14 August 2026
China PCB makers pour billions into AI server, HPC, optical markets
Chinese printed circuit board (PCB) makers are stepping up investment in higher-value markets including AI servers, high-performance computing (HPC) and optical communications. Following...
Friday 14 August 2026
Samsung chip design embraces AI, but loss of control and hallucinations remain a problem
The AI wave is sweeping through the chip industry, but hallucinations, loss of control, and cybersecurity risks remain unresolved even as efficiency leaps. Youngsik Kim, head of the...
Friday 14 August 2026
SK Hynix advances Yongin fab construction for 2027 cleanroom launch
SK hynix has pushed construction of its semiconductor campus in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, to 87% completion as it targets February 2027 for the start of operations at...
Friday 14 August 2026
Samsung and SK hynix push AI deeper into fabs as semiconductor manufacturing enters autonomous era
As the world enters an AI-powered era where the persistent need for more complex architectures is driven by rising demands for higher computing performance, one bottleneck confronting...
Friday 14 August 2026
ATEN lifts second-quarter profit on higher sales, pricing, utilization
ATEN International said its second-quarter 2026 revenue rose 19% year-over-year, while gross margin improved to 62% from 59% and pretax profit jumped 235%. The Taiwan-based keyboard-video-mouse...
Friday 14 August 2026
Hyundai's robot foundry bet outpaces its local supply chain

Hyundai Motor Group and the South Korean government are accelerating a KRW9 trillion (approx. US$6.3 billion) robot and AI investment...

Friday 14 August 2026
Korea's CNT pellicle race heats up as aweXome Ray pushes toward EUV commercialization
As South Korea's major memory manufacturers race to secure next-generation lithography technologies for increasingly advanced process nodes, the approaching High-NA EUV era is adding...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Samsung delays High-NA EUV adoption until 1nm production in 2030
Samsung Electronics plans to introduce high-numerical-aperture extreme ultraviolet (High-NA EUV) lithography into mass production at its 1nm node around 2030, according to South Korean...
Thursday 13 August 2026
SK Hynix expands EUV roadmap with High-NA tools and PSM adoption
SK hynix said it is advancing its use of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography for the mass production of next-generation DRAM, with high-numerical-aperture (High-NA) EUV equipment...
Thursday 13 August 2026
South Korea plans new sovereign wealth fund to back AI, robots, supply chains
South Korea plans to establish a strategic investment account with at least 20 trillion won in assets within the Korea Investment Corporation in 2027 as it moves to strengthen its...
Thursday 13 August 2026
LGES, Lopal sign three-year LFP supply deal worth up to CNY27 billion
LG Energy Solution (LGES) and China's Jiangsu Lopal Tech have signed a three-year framework agreement covering up to CNY27 billion (approx. US$3.8 billion) in lithium iron phosphate...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Samsung SDI-GM battery reset shows how ESS is reshaping the US EV supply chain

Samsung SDI is ending its battery manufacturing partnership with General Motors (GM) in Indiana, terminating a major EV joint venture...