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Wednesday 14 October 2026
TSMC and MediaTek alumni lead Taiwan's new wave of deep tech startups
At Plug and Play Taiwan's Batch 4 Selection Day, 21 startups made the case that Taiwan's next wave of innovation is being built by chip-industry veterans who are tackling problems...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
TSMC, Intel, Samsung seek to break AI chipmaking's next barrier through early technology integration
Senior executives from TSMC, Intel, and Samsung Electronics outlined the growing challenges of AI chip development, spanning advanced semiconductor processes, 3D integration, and research...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
TSMC-GF interposer deal reshapes US AI supply chain, from CoWoS to HBM
GlobalFoundries (GF) and TSMC have reached a manufacturing agreement to establish a US-based supply source for silicon interposers supporting TSMC's CoWoS advanced packaging ecosystem...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
TSMC power plant funding talks still conceptual, says Taipower
Electricity demand from semiconductor manufacturing, memory production, advanced packaging, and server assembly is rising rapidly, fueling reports that Taiwan Power Company (Taipower)...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Podcast highlights: Is Elon Musk using TSMC talks as leverage against Intel and Samsung?
Elon Musk's recent confirmation that his "TeraFab" initiative is in talks with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) signals that a project originally framed as a challenge...
Monday 12 October 2026
Microsoft to scale Maia AI chips to multi-gigawatt deployments, unveils TSMC N2P-based Maia 300
Microsoft will scale its in-house Azure Maia AI accelerators to multi-gigawatt deployments starting in 2027, making Maia the primary AI inference system for its products and services...
Monday 12 October 2026
Rapidus targets customers underserved by TSMC, but can it convince them to take the risk?
Backed by US$15 billion in Japanese government funding, Rapidus announced an alliance with 17 semiconductor design-related companies, including US-based Synopsys and India's Infosys,...
Monday 12 October 2026
TSMC, ASML eye 12-inch photomasks to unlock High-NA EUV's full-field potential
Advanced semiconductor manufacturing is progressing toward 2nm and angstrom-era nodes (Å; where 1 nm equals 10 Å), bringing high-numerical-aperture extreme ultraviolet...
Monday 12 October 2026
MediaTek flagship AP share to surpass Samsung as TSMC boosts Dimensity
As the global smartphone system-on-chip (SoC) market contracts, competition in the high-end application processor (AP) segment is intensifying. MediaTek is accelerating its push into...
Monday 12 October 2026
Weekly news roundup: Musk's Terafab faces reality check; Samsung HBM4E clears quality validation
This week's (October 5 to October 11, 2026) coverage highlights intensifying efforts to build resilient semiconductor and AI hardware supply chains. Elon Musk's Terafab project faces...
Friday 9 October 2026
GlobalFoundries wins US$2 billion TSMC interposer deal, closing a US packaging gap
GF said on October 8, 2026, that it has signed a multi-year, US$2 billion manufacturing agreement with TSMC to produce silicon interposers for TSMC's CoWoS ecosystem at its Malta,...
Thursday 8 October 2026
TSMC's third-quarter revenue rises 51% to NT$1.49 trillion as September sales stay near record
TSMC reported consolidated revenue of about NT$511.86 billion (approx. US$16.1 billion) for September 2026. That was up 54.6% from NT$330.98 billion a year earlier and down 0.6% from...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Analysis: Musk keeps Terafab in-house, shifting execution risk onto his own companies
Elon Musk has moved to quell uncertainty over Intel's position in the Terafab chip project, stressing that his companies will build and operate the planned semiconductor complex themselves...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Musk limits TSMC to possible Terafab sublease; Intel says it will stay involved
Intel will keep working with Elon Musk on Terafab, according to Bloomberg. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan stated that the company will stay involved in Musk's plan to make cutting-edge...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Chip price hikes loom as Taiwan IC designers brace to pass on costs through 2027
Taiwanese integrated circuit (IC) design firms report that passing on costs to customers will likely continue through 2027 as upstream foundry and outsourced semiconductor assembly...