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Monday 17 August 2026

Samsung weighs Giheung R&D line for 2nm HBM foundry capacity

Samsung Electronics is reportedly considering repurposing the second line at its next-generation semiconductor R&D complex in Giheung...

Monday 17 August 2026

Samsung Electro-Mechanics, LG Innotek substrate lines near full capacity as AI demand rises

Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEMCO) and LG Innotek pushed their semiconductor package substrate operations close to full capacity in...

Monday 17 August 2026

OCI thins solar wafers to boost Vietnam output 39%

OCI Holdings is turning to thinner solar wafers to raise output from its Vietnam operations by nearly 40% without adding production lines, as demand from US customers outpaces existing...

Sunday 16 August 2026

Samsung, SK Hynix HBM4 hiring war drains South Korea's chip design talent

South Korea's semiconductor talent shortage is intensifying as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix recruit experienced chip designers for increasingly complex HBM4 products, drawing key...

Sunday 16 August 2026

TV slowdown accelerates panel makers' shift to IT OLED, UBI Research found

With global TV demand slowing and panel prices continuing to fall, display makers are facing intensifying profit pressure. Analysts...

Friday 14 August 2026

South Korea chip cluster could expand to nine fabs as SK plans new investment

South Korea's planned southwestern semiconductor cluster could eventually expand from four fabs to as many as nine as the government accelerates land, power, and infrastructure work...

Friday 14 August 2026

South Korea's memory-chip exports surge 277% as system chips slip

South Korea's semiconductor export boom was heavily concentrated in memory in July. Memory-chip export value surged 276.9% year over...

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...

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