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Thursday 4 June 2026

SK and TSMC deepen HBM, advanced packaging tie-up

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won met TSMC Chairman C.C. Wei in Taiwan on June 3, as the two sides exchanged views on the latest trends in next-generation AI technologies and discussed...

Thursday 4 June 2026

MiTAC Computing confident in 2026 growth amid AI server expansion

MiTAC Computing Technology, a subsidiary of MiTAC Holdings, has no doubt that operations will grow in 2026, according to company president Rick Hwang. The company has two new US facilities...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Pegatron sees AI server expansion accelerating as organizational overhaul nears completion

Pegatron is betting that the AI server market will keep expanding, even though it entered later than some peers. The company said 2026 will mark the start of a full-speed push as generative...

Thursday 4 June 2026

BOE races Samsung for Gen 8.6 OLED title despite low yield

BOE is preparing to hold a mass-production shipment ceremony for its Gen 8.6 IT OLED line in mid-June, positioning the Chinese display...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Taiwan's green energy industry shifts from manufacturing race to resilience strategy

Taiwan's green energy industry is emerging from more than two decades of boom, retreats, and shakeouts with a different strategic focus. What began as a contest in hardware manufacturing...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Japan's robotics legacy faces a new challenge: commercial success

At the close of his keynote address at the Humanoids Summit in Tokyo, Hiroshi Ishiguro — one of the pioneers of humanoid robotics — offered a candid assessment of the industry's...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Chip test equipment makers hit by FPGA, CPU supply crunch

Semiconductor test equipment makers are facing severe shortages of key components, with lead times for FPGAs, CPUs, GPUs, and driver ICs...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Kioxia weighs new NAND fab as AI demand drives long-term expansion plans

Kioxia is evaluating the construction of a new NAND flash manufacturing facility at its Kitakami site in Iwate Prefecture, aiming for production to begin after 2029-2030 as the company...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Taiwan courts the world's AI startups in a bid to secure chip future

Taiwan is stepping up its efforts to position itself as a global hub for artificial intelligence and semiconductor innovation, deepening ties between international startups and its...

Thursday 4 June 2026

As satellite networks expand, telecom operators gain influence

The race to build space-based internet networks is accelerating. But as thousands of low-Earth orbit satellites enter orbit, a more fundamental question is taking shape: who will control...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Taiwan's Walsin Technology gains pricing power from AI demand

Walsin Technology, one of Taiwan's leading manufacturers of multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs), has notified distributors that it will...

Wednesday 3 June 2026

Micron's HBM4 push signals bigger Nvidia supply role

Micron Technology may supply more HBM4 memory for Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin platform than the market currently expects, as the US memory maker ramps up equipment investment...

Wednesday 3 June 2026

Nvidia and Infineon press supply chain co-design as AI power limits tighten

At the opening day of Computex 2026, Lite-On Technology hosted an AI industry summit under the theme "Powering the AI-driven Future," where DIGITIMES chairman Colley Hwang moderated...

Wednesday 3 June 2026

MediaTek denies rumored EMIB adoption timeline

MediaTek denied a foreign report about a timeline for adopting Intel Corp.'s embedded multi-die interconnect bridge packaging at a recent investor event and said its supply-chain strategy...

Wednesday 3 June 2026

SK Group weighs pausing SK Siltron sale as AI chip demand lifts wafer strategy

SK Group is reportedly placing AI and semiconductors at the center of its next round of business restructuring, prompting a fresh internal review of the strategic value of SK Siltron,...

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