Riding a year of extraordinary growth powered by the AI boom, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) has approved a 2026 strategy that couples record capital spending with one...

The Trump administration is preparing to spare major US technology companies from a new round of semiconductor tariffs as they expand data center capacity to support the artificial...

Amkor Technology is accelerating its global expansion, projecting 2026 capex between US$2.5 billion and US$3 billion. This plan emphasizes significant facility construction, including...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi secured a decisive victory in the February 8, 2026, lower house election after her Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won 316 seats, surpassing the...

MediaTek president and chief operating officer Joe Chen stated that artificial intelligence (AI) computing is shifting from training to inference applications, with rapid growth expected...

TSMC chairman C.C. Wei recently visited Japan and appeared alongside Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to jointly announce that Kumamoto Fab 2 will be upgraded from a 6nm to a 3nm process,...

Taiwan's economy expanded 8.63% in 2025, its strongest growth in 15 years, as the island's semiconductor-driven supply chain continued to underpin global demand for AI computing. Minister...

India marked a milestone in its semiconductor push as seven chip designs from startups under the design-linked incentive (DLI) scheme were successfully fabricated, including advanced...

The traditional wafer foundry model is transforming as leading foundries increasingly incorporate intellectual property (IP) into mature technology nodes to address economic pressures...

TSMC's decision to bring 3nm manufacturing to Japan is often explained in terms of subsidies and diversification. A better explanation sits in a book written five years ago by Prime...

Samsung Electronics' foundry business is reportedly preparing price increases for certain process technologies, including 4nm and 8nm nodes, with hikes reportedly around 10%. Despite...

To meet the surging demand driven by AI, TSMC is upgrading its second wafer fab under construction in Kumamoto, Japan, to use more advanced 3nm process technology. This development...

The global competition for advanced wafer foundry processes is intensifying, with Samsung Electronics recently announcing that its 2nm process will focus on artificial intelligence...

Intel and AMD are facing acute server CPU shortages in China, with delivery times for some Intel products stretching to as long as six months, driven by surging AI data center demand...