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Wednesday 8 July 2026
TSMC earnings call could signal how long the AI boom can keep lifting its outlook

TSMC's July 16 earnings call is likely to test how far the chipmaker can extend its already upbeat guidance, as investors look for...

Wednesday 8 July 2026
National Center for Instrumentation Research helps academia break 2D materials bottleneck
As AI infrastructure chip orders flood in and TSMC runs near nonstop, academia has found it difficult to carry out industry-academia collaboration with the world's top foundry house...
Wednesday 8 July 2026
ASE expands globally as Hanmi Semiconductor targets CoWoS packaging demand
South Korean equipment maker Hanmi Semiconductor is moving beyond high-bandwidth memory (HBM) tools into advanced chip packaging, a shift that could affect the global semiconductor...
Tuesday 7 July 2026
TSMC's AI bottleneck spills demand across the semiconductor supply chain

Nvidia and other artificial intelligence chipmakers are still facing shortages as TSMC's advanced-node and CoWoS packaging capacity...

Tuesday 7 July 2026
Taiwan pushes care robots as eldercare shortages expose legal gaps
Taiwan is accelerating efforts to bring care robots into eldercare as labor shortages deepen, while lawmakers and regulators continue to debate how the devices should be classified...
Monday 6 July 2026
Meta's AI cloud idea underscores a search for returns, not an AI retreat
Meta is reportedly exploring a new AI cloud infrastructure business that would let enterprises use its AI models and some unused GPU capacity, a move that could lift hardware utilization...
Saturday 4 July 2026
TSMC's median pay trails four smaller IC design houses, filings show

Fabless chip designers dominate the upper ranks of Taiwan's newly disclosed non-managerial employee pay data for fiscal year 2025,...

Friday 3 July 2026
Intel takes aim at TSMC's CoWoS lead with EMIB-T
As transistor density scaling slows, chipmakers are leaning on advanced packaging to keep improving accelerator performance. A SemiAnalysis roundup of this year's IEEE Electronic Components...
Friday 3 July 2026
How TSMC quietly turned its supply chain into a 'second fleet'

TSMC has accelerated efforts to localize its supply chain in recent years, using joint development, joint validation, and long-term...

Friday 3 July 2026
Samsung eyes marquee AI win as Anthropic explores custom chip beyond Nvidia

Anthropic is exploring a custom AI chip and has held talks with Samsung Electronics as a potential manufacturing partner, joining OpenAI,...

Friday 3 July 2026
TSMC wins approval for US$20 billion Arizona expansion
Taiwan's Department of Investment Review (DIR) under the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has approved Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) US$20 billion capital...
Friday 3 July 2026
Seoul seeks Kumamoto's chip playbook, but Japan's model isn't easy to copy

As South Korea moves to accelerate a new semiconductor cluster in the country's southwest, ruling-party officials have returned to...

Thursday 2 July 2026
LG Electronics moves into ASIC design services as TSMC ties draw attention
LG Electronics has begun offering application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design services to outside chip companies, drawing on system-on-chip (SoC) development work the company...
Thursday 2 July 2026
Socionext to develop TSMC A14 chiplet for AI data center SoCs

Socionext announced that it would develop a high-performance compute chiplet using TSMC's A14 process technology, positioning the project...

Thursday 2 July 2026
Cloud AI squeezes 2nm capacity, pressuring mobile SoCs

Mobile system-on-chip (SoC) vendors are collectively upgrading flagship platforms to 2nm in 2026. Beyond the need for better specifications,...