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Friday 5 June 2026

FADU wins new contracts as AI workloads reshape data storage

As artificial intelligence (AI) workloads place unprecedented demands on data storage systems, South Korean SSD controller designer FADU is betting that next-generation storage architecture...

Friday 5 June 2026

Nvidia's Jensen Huang to meet South Korean business leaders beyond HBM sector

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is visiting South Korea on June 5 for meetings with major Korean business leaders, as the company's cooperation...

Friday 5 June 2026

Jiin Ming debuts Raven remote controller at Japan Drone 2026

Taiwanese firm Jiin Ming Industry unveiled its self-developed JMG flight remote controller — Raven — at the Japan Drone 2026 exhibition, marking the first time the company...

Friday 5 June 2026

South Korea finalizes US$520 million on-device AI chip budget amid industry doubts

South Korea has finalized the budget for a state-backed on-device AI chip development project at KRW800.23 billion (US$520 million), about KRW200 billion below an earlier proposal,...

Friday 5 June 2026

COMPUTEX 2026: Taiwan optics leaders pivot from smartphone bottlenecks to edge AI supply chain

Taiwan's optics makers, traditionally absent from PC-focused trade shows, made a landmark appearance at COMPUTEX 2026. Industry leaders including Largan Precision, Ability Opto-Electronics...

Friday 5 June 2026

Compal's server business surges, non-PC revenue eyes 50% by 2027

Compal Electronics is accelerating a shift away from its long-standing PC business as AI servers and other non-PC lines gain momentum. The move could have broad implications for global...

Friday 5 June 2026

CXMT's South Korean hiring spree puts Samsung, SK Hynix memory lead on alert

More than 200 South Korean engineers are conservatively estimated to be working at CXMT, China's leading DRAM maker, according to industry sources. Chinese semiconductor companies...

Friday 5 June 2026

Commentary: EU tariff barrier may weaken as Japanese automakers lean on China's EV tech

Japanese automakers' growing reliance on Chinese EV technology could weaken the EU's tariff strategy and reshape global car trade. As Mazda, Nissan, Honda, and Toyota adjust their...

Friday 5 June 2026

Commentary: Memory boom driven by DRAM now, but HBM will decide future

AI demand is fueling a broad semiconductor upswing and pushing the memory industry into what many see as a long-awaited super-cycle. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have both reported...

Friday 5 June 2026

Arm says Taiwan powers its rise as agentic AI lifts PC growth

Arm CEO Rene Haas told the COMPUTEX keynote on June 2 that Taiwan has been inseparable from Arm's growth over the past 30 years, while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that agentic AI...

Friday 5 June 2026

TSMC CEO says rising profits mean greater social responsibility, clarifies bonus considerations

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) held its shareholders meeting on June 4, during which CEO C.C. Wei addressed recent talk surrounding its employee bonus system. He...

Friday 5 June 2026

Hanmi Semiconductor eyes record sales in Computex debut as HBM4 demand grows

Hanmi Semiconductor is projecting record annual revenue this year, as rising demand for high-bandwidth memory equipment lifts prospects for the South Korean chip-equipment maker and...

Friday 5 June 2026

South Korea's only SRAM-CIM IP firm Articron targets edge AI

South Korean semiconductor IP startup Articron is challenging the traditional AI chip design bottleneck by using a memory-centric architecture, with its self-developed SRAM-CIM compute...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Foxconn, SK Group eye deeper AI infrastructure ties in Asia

Foxconn chairman Young Liu met SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won on June 3, as the two companies explore broader cooperation in AI servers,...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Samsung's rumored CIS production shift highlights industry debate over fab ownership

Samsung Electronics' decision to place a key image sensor production line under its System LSI division highlights a broader question facing the CMOS image sensor (CIS) industry: whether...

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