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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...

Thursday 4 June 2026

TSMC chairman dismisses rival cluster pushes, says Taiwan's supply chain remains unmatched

TSMC chairman C.C. Wei spoke at a media briefing on June 4, 2026, after the company's shareholders' meeting. South Korea's push to build a semiconductor cluster, Arizona's efforts...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Anduril and Taiwan sign drone cooperation MOU to deepen AI-autonomy and localize supply chains

Anduril Industries and Taiwan's Metal Industries Research and Development Center signed a memorandum of understanding to deepen collaboration on unmanned aerial vehicle key technologies,...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Nvidia's Jensen Huang courts Korean giants in robotics expansion

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is visiting South Korea this week as the company seeks to expand its partnerships with major Korean conglomerates...

Thursday 4 June 2026

LG Innotek targets Intel EMIB substrate chain with SK Hynix samples

LG Innotek is seeking to enter the supply chain for substrates used in Intel's EMIB advanced-packaging technology, supplying early samples...

Thursday 4 June 2026

HBM4 supply in focus as SK's Chey meets TSMC's Wei

SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won met TSMC chairman C.C. Wei in Taiwan on June 3, as SK Hynix and TSMC map out future cooperation in HBM4 base dies, advanced logic processes, and custom...

Thursday 4 June 2026

TSMC chair says CoPoS could scale within years while downplaying risk from Terafab

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) told shareholders on June 4 that the AI surge is creating major opportunities, but also leaving TSMC with the bulk of the investment and...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Southern Taiwan Science Park January-April 2026 revenue tops NT$1 trillion on AI boom

Driven by the booming semiconductor industry, the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) posted revenue of nearly NT$1.1 trillion (approx. US$35.04 billion) for January to April 2026,...

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