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Monday 7 September 2026
Inside UC San Diego's 'Made with Taiwan' push to train TSMC's future engineers, reinvent chip packaging
The largest engineering school on the US West Coast by enrollment is training engineers for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) and pioneering advanced 3D packaging desig...
Monday 7 September 2026
SEMICON Taiwan 2027 moves to August, aligning with TSMC's 40th anniversary
SEMICON Taiwan, one of Taiwan's key semiconductor industry events, will move its 2027 edition forward by nearly a month to August 18-20, departing from its traditional early-to-mid-September...
Monday 7 September 2026
Yaho rides TSMC, Micron expansion wave to tap facility integration, equipment installation market
Artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) are driving the global semiconductor industry into a new expansion cycle, with fabs extending from Taiwan to the US,...
Monday 7 September 2026
Exclusive: Taipower's new green power sandbox could ease TSMC's surplus electricity problem
As global net-zero efforts accelerate, major technology companies are setting increasingly ambitious renewable energy targets. TSMC has pledged to reach RE60 by 2030 and RE100 by 2...
Monday 7 September 2026
JM-Applied sees gas equipment demand surge on AI expansion, order book exceeds NT$3 billion
JM-Applied, a Taiwanese semiconductor gas equipment manufacturer and supply chain member for Micron and TSMC, said on September 4 that revenue in the first half of 2026 exceeded NT$600...
Monday 7 September 2026
No foundry price relief before 2027 as utilization nears 90%

AI demand is driving a broader repricing cycle across the foundry industry in 2026. Tightness that began at leading-edge nodes is spreading...

Saturday 5 September 2026
TSMC's 3D packaging roadmap: engineering AI chips to think like the human brain
TSMC is steering the future of artificial intelligence toward high-density three-dimensional advanced packaging designed to mimic the architectural connectivity of the human brain,...
Friday 4 September 2026
TSMC urges HBM makers to design for X-ray inspection as packaging grows more complex
TSMC is calling for future HBM and DRAM designs to become more compatible with X-ray inspection, as increasingly complex advanced packaging makes buried defects harder to detect while...
Thursday 3 September 2026
TSMC doubles down on equipment purchase as AI demand is outpacing semiconductor supply chain planning
TSMC says surging AI demand is stretching the global chip industry beyond its usual planning cycle, with fast-changing procurement needs, labor shortages, and infrastructure constraints...
Thursday 3 September 2026
AUO unit eyes TSMC ecosystem as merger benefits emerge
AUO Group's AET Corporation (AET), formed in September 2025 through the merger of AUO Envirotech and AUO Digitech, is expanding across the semiconductor supply chain and has reportedly...
Thursday 3 September 2026
AI substrate shortages widen as Unimicron signals capacity support through 2029
Unimicron chairman SC Chien said the company is working to ease the tightening shortage of AI substrates as MediaTek seeks capacity support for the next three years, during a public...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Taiwan's semiconductor ecosystem has the UK taking notes
The UK wants to understand how Taiwan built such a successful semiconductor ecosystem, said Andy McLean, CEO of the UK Semiconductor Center, at a forum organized by Taiwan's Ministry...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
TSMC moves into Baipu Industrial Park, boosts advanced packaging
TSMC will set up operations in Kaohsiung's Baipu Industrial Park, helping create Taiwan's first advanced packaging materials and equipment supply-chain cluster. Closely watched by...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
TSMC reportedly asks suppliers to develop 5μm HBM microbumps
TSMC has asked materials and equipment suppliers to develop 5-micrometer-class microbump bonding and underfill technology for advanced HBM packaging, according to ETNews,...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Marvell sees silicon photonics scaling from late 2027, with Taiwan and TSMC at the center
Marvell SVP and chief technology officer Radha Nagarajan offered a clearer timeline for the commercialisation of co-packaged optics, or CPO, during a media briefing at Semicon Taiwan...