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Tuesday 29 September 2026
GlobalFoundries eyes GaN expansion to challenge TSMC in AI

GlobalFoundries (GF) is preparing a major global capacity expansion as TSMC is set to gradually exit gallium nitride (GaN) foundry services...

Tuesday 29 September 2026
SK Hynix tests HBM5 with TSMC as HBM4 enters Nvidia's next platform

SK Hynix has validated its HBM5 memory with TSMC's CoWoS packaging, the company said in a September 28 post on its corporate newsroom...

Tuesday 29 September 2026
TSMC helps VSMC build first Singapore fab in 22 months at lower cost than US
VSMC, the joint venture between Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) and NXP Semiconductors, officially opened its first 12-inch wafer fab in Singapore on September 28, completing...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Behind CoWoS (part 2): How TSMC turned a niche packaging experiment into an industry standard
As chip design enters the AI era, heterogeneous integration is driving foundry giants like TSMC, Samsung, and Intel to bring advanced front-end fab capabilities into back-end packaging...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Behind CoWoS (part 1)—How a 0% yield crisis led to TSMC's first advanced packaging win
In a recent interview on the DIGITIMES podcast, Dr. Shin-Puu Jeng, chairman of the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS) and a former longtime TSMC...
Thursday 24 September 2026
Cadence, Synopsys certify TSMC A14 design flows ahead of 2028 production

Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys have achieved certification for key design flows on TSMC's A14 process, expanding the design ecosystem...

Thursday 24 September 2026
Qualcomm sticks with TSMC for both 2nm Snapdragon flagships as Samsung steps up foundry push
Qualcomm is sticking with TSMC for both of its newly launched 2nm Snapdragon flagship processors, extending the Taiwan foundry's hold on Qualcomm's top-tier mobile chips even as Samsung...
Thursday 24 September 2026
TSMC locks in 3-6% wafer out price hikes for 2027

TSMC is reportedly planning another wafer foundry price increase, with supply chain sources saying its order visibility now extends...

Tuesday 22 September 2026
SiPearl delivers first homegrown server chips for Europe's exascale supercomputer
SiPearl, a fabless company backed by the European Union and France, has delivered the first Rhea1 CPU samples to Bull for integration into Europe's JUPITER supercomputer, moving the...
Tuesday 22 September 2026
TSMC, ASE break ground on Taiwan's first advanced packaging cluster in Kaohsiung

Rising demand for advanced packaging tied to AI and high-performance computing (HPC) is driving development at Baipu Industrial Park...

Tuesday 22 September 2026
GUC Announces 2nm 16 Gbps HBM4E IP

Global Unichip Corp. (GUC), the Advanced ASIC Leader, today announced that its HBM4E PHY and Controller IP is design-ready and has been adopted in customer AI ASICs....

Monday 21 September 2026
Kaohsiung's new industrial park targets advanced packaging suppliers for the post-Moore era
Baipu Industrial Park, located on the border of Kaohsiung's Gangshan and Ciaotou districts, broke ground on September 21 after receiving approval from Taiwan's Ministry of Economic...
Monday 21 September 2026
TSMC builds Kaohsiung hub to speed advanced packaging tests
TSMC is building an advanced packaging validation hub in southern Taiwan as rapid chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) expansion puts pressure on equipment and materials suppliers to...
Monday 21 September 2026
SK Hynix pushes deeper into logic for next-generation 3D DRAM

SK Hynix is pushing deeper into logic design as it develops a next-generation 3D DRAM architecture that could separate memory-cell processing...

Saturday 19 September 2026
Charts: Taiwan's memory makers are outgrowing TSMC by a factor of eight

Taiwan's chipmakers are having their best year in a decade, and the headline number belongs to TSMC. The more interesting one does n...