TSMC has announced that Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (JASM), its subsidiary in Kikuyo, Kumamoto Prefecture, has resumed normal operations following production disruptions caused by the recent Kumamoto earthquake.
Daeduck Electronics plans to invest KRW497 billion(US$349.50 million) in semiconductor production facilities through 2027, its second major expansion announcement this year, Seoul Economic Daily reported, citing a regulatory filing with South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service.
AMD expects the market for server central processing units (CPUs) to reach approximately US$220 billion by 2030, up from an estimate of more than US$120 billion three months earlier, as the company sees agentic artificial intelligence (AI) creating a new class of CPU-intensive workloads.
Huawei is arguing that the next phase of semiconductor performance will depend less on transistor shrinkage and more on system architecture, faster data movement and tighter coordination between chips, software and AI models.
China's CXMT is preparing limited production of LPDDR6 smartphone memory around the end of 2026, narrowing a technology gap with Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron that once spanned years.
