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Thursday 30 July 2026
ASE sees full-year LEAP revenue topping US$3.5 billion amid tight packaging capacity
ASE Technology Holding said growing demand for advanced packaging and testing, combined with stronger momentum in its electronics manufacturing services (EMS) business, has tightened...
Thursday 30 July 2026
Samsung signs five-year memory deals as chip shortage stretches to 2028
Samsung Electronics has signed five-year memory supply agreements with five leading global data center customers and is in the final stages of talks with five more, tying a growing...
Thursday 30 July 2026
High memory prices could slow China's AI push, analyst says

Memory prices are expected to remain elevated through 2026 as AI and data-center demand strains supply, with meaningful supply relief...

Thursday 30 July 2026
Samsung foundry to double 2nm design wins in 2026 on Broadcom talks; claims profit turnaround 'possible in near term'

Samsung Electronics' foundry business expects its 2nm project wins to more than double year-on-year in 2026, and the company is in...

Thursday 30 July 2026
Advantest lifts fiscal 2026 forecast as AI chip test demand surges

Advantest raised its outlook for the fiscal year ending March 2027 after demand for chip-test equipment tied to AI data centers strengthened,...

Thursday 30 July 2026
Ennoconn deepens Singapore push with SMF pact and AI forum

Ennoconn Technologies held its 2026 Semiconductor x AI Applications Forum at Google's Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore on July...

Thursday 30 July 2026
Samsung: memory shortage to worsen in 2027, persist through 2028; locks top customers into multi-year deals

Samsung Electronics expects the global memory shortage to become more severe in 2027 than in 2026 and to persist through 2028, memory...

Thursday 30 July 2026
Meta earnings series 2/2: Zuckerberg defends higher AI expenditure, outlines the path to returns

Meta Platforms' second-quarter results showed a widening gap between its fast-growing advertising business and the cost of building...

Thursday 30 July 2026
Arm readies AGI CPU shipments, eyes 3Q stream in fiscal 2028

Arm Holdings is preparing its first self-designed data center CPU, the Arm AGI CPU, for shipments by the end of calendar 2026, and...

Thursday 30 July 2026
Meta forecasts higher AI spending as legal costs weigh on profit despite strong revenue growth
Meta Platforms reported strong second-quarter revenue growth driven by its Family of Apps business, but lower profit and a higher spending outlook highlighted the mounting costs of...
Thursday 30 July 2026
Qualcomm bets on AI and automotive growth to offset Apple decline as weak outlook pressures shares
Qualcomm forecast weaker fourth-quarter earnings and warned that revenue from Apple products will decline faster than previously expected, underscoring near-term pressure on its smartphone...
Thursday 30 July 2026
UMC, Intel advance 12nm process collab with no next-gen plans at this time
United Microelectronics (UMC) stated that its collaboration with Intel to develop a 12nm process is progressing smoothly. The process design kit (PDK) is expected to be completed by...
Thursday 30 July 2026
UMC posts NT$42.26B profit on non-operating investment gains in 2Q26
United Microelectronics (UMC) reported consolidated second-quarter 2026 revenue of NT$68.73 billion (approx. US$2.12 billion) during its earnings call on July 29. The figure is up...
Thursday 30 July 2026
Samsung says rising memory costs will lift Taiwan smartphone market value more than 8% in 2026
Rising prices for memory and other key components are weighing on smartphone demand in Taiwan, but the overall market value is still expected to grow in 2026, according to Samsung...
Thursday 30 July 2026
AMD's Helios gains ground in challenge to Nvidia's CUDA
AI infrastructure competition is intensifying, but the market is no longer focusing only on GPU performance and is instead re-evaluating the entire computing system. For AMD, the chance...