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Tuesday 1 September 2026
SEMI lifts 2028 wafer fab equipment forecast to US$220 billion
SEMI has raised its forecast for global wafer fab equipment (WFE) sales in 2028 to US$220 billion, up from about US$200 billion projected in July, as stronger investment in advanced...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Z.ai runs GLM inference on 100,000 Chinese AI chips, eyes overseas CSPs
Chinese large-model developer Z.ai says it can now support large-scale inference using roughly 100,000 domestically produced AI chips, while its GLM models are also moving closer to...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
China's memory chipmakers post a record 1H — but not all of it came from chips
Nine listed Chinese memory and memory-adjacent chip companies have now filed their first-half 2026 results, and together they measure the depth of the current DRAM and NAND upcycle...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
LG Energy Solution secures long-term US lithium supply
LG Energy Solution has signed a long-term supply agreement with Smackover Lithium for battery-grade lithium carbonate, a move that could strengthen supply chains for energy storage...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Analysis: CXMT's US$11.5B profit surge raises the stakes in China's AI memory race
China's leading DRAM maker CXMT has gone from years of accumulated losses to one of the most profitable companies on the mainland market, propelled by an extraordinary memory upcycle...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
JCET lifts 2026 capex to CNY10 billion as AI packaging demand outruns forecasts
JCET Group is sharply increasing spending as demand for artificial intelligence strains advanced packaging capacity worldwide. The Chinese chip tester and assembler said the shift...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
XCENA teams up with Samsung on rack-scale CXL memory; demos on Intel Xeon 6
South Korean chip startup XCENA is pushing CXL beyond memory expansion and toward a new layer of server computing, unveiling measured results for its MX1 computational memory device...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Huawei's revenue climbs 9.6%, but AI, chips and HarmonyOS exact heavier R&D toll
Huawei Technologies increased first-half revenue in 2026 while profit fell sharply, highlighting the growing cost of its effort to build a self-sufficient technology stack spanning...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Taiwan clears Lam Research's NT$9.8 billion subsidiary injection as etch leader scales R&D worldwide
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs has approved a NT$9.835 billion (approx. US$310 million) capital injection by Lam Research into its Taiwanese subsidiary, Lam Research Taiwan,...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Taiwan's G2C+ Alliance members target global markets
Artificial intelligence (AI) chips are driving a new wave of integration competition among Taiwan semiconductor equipment makers. Taiwan's G2C+ strategic alliance, comprised of C Sun,...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Semicon Taiwan 2026 to spotlight AI-driven semiconductor supply chain shifts
Semicon Taiwan 2026 is set to open soon as Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International said AI is pushing a new wave of technology upgrades across the global chip industry...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Buima returns to profit in the second quarter on battery module demand
Buima swung back to profitability in the second quarter of 2026 as a recovery in its battery module shipments and gains from asset disposal lifted results. The company said demand...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Commentary: Why America fell behind on Open models — and how Nvidia plans to close the gap
When DeepSeek burst onto the scene in early 2025, it wiped nearly US$600 billion from Nvidia's market value in a single day. By the summer of 2026, Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 had triggered...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Samsung weighs HBM4 bonuses as memory, foundry teams align
Samsung Electronics is using a cross-division "One Team" model to develop its sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory, HBM4, but the approach is creating a new challenge for the newly...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
AI server cooling specialist Nidec expands Vietnam capacity, forms liquid-cooling team
Nidec Chaun-Choung Technology plans to establish a dedicated liquid-cooling team and deepen cooperation with major cloud service providers, citing rising thermal-management demand...