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Wednesday 16 September 2026
Apple reportedly accepts Samsung's 1Q27 memory hike, raising the 2027 smartphone cost floor
Apple's acceptance of sharply higher Samsung Electronics memory prices for early 2027 is putting a number on the cost of the AI boom for smartphones. The reported agreement comes just...
Wednesday 16 September 2026
Hanmi Semiconductor reportedly lands first back-end foothold at Terafab
Hanmi Semiconductor has reportedly secured an order to supply advanced packaging equipment to Elon Musk's Terafab, marking the first known entry by a South Korean back-end equipment...
Wednesday 16 September 2026
MediaTek keeps Dimensity 9600 Pro on HBPoP as cost drives decisions

MediaTek officially unveiled the Dimensity 9600 Pro on September 15, 2026, drawing significant industry attention to its choice of packaging...

Wednesday 16 September 2026
Beyond 2nm: Dimensity 9600 Pro gives MediaTek a bigger role in mobile AI
MediaTek has officially launched the Dimensity 9600 Pro, introducing a major architectural overhaul for its 2026 flagship mobile chip. Beyond the shift to a 2nm process, the new platform...
Wednesday 16 September 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: Taiwan can power its AI chip boom — but not with green energy
DIGITIMES Intelligence observes that discussions at the semiconductor sustainability and energy forum during SEMICON Taiwan 2026 centered on two questions: whether Taiwan will have...
Wednesday 16 September 2026
China's humanoid robot race, Part 2: Upstream profits gather around dexterous hands
Humanoid robot makers are cutting prices and scaling production, yet much of the industry remains unprofitable. Upstream suppliers are starting to show a different economics —...
Wednesday 16 September 2026
AI server tracker: BMC, cable, case suppliers post August 2026 gains

Taiwan's AI server supply chain continued to show strong year-over-year growth in August, although performance varied significantly...

Wednesday 16 September 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: Taiwan's small IC design firms face a weaker second half after rebound

Taiwan's smaller IC design firms posted a strong revenue recovery in the first half of 2026, but the gains may prove difficult to extend...

Wednesday 16 September 2026
Chip revenue heads to US$2.4 trillion on price, not volume, Yole says
The semiconductor industry is on track to nearly quadruple in revenue by 2031 while shipping barely more silicon than it does today, a divergence that makes pricing power, not capacity,...
Wednesday 16 September 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: Google scales TPU systems to 1 million chips as power becomes the bottleneck

At SEMICON Taiwan 2026, Google outlined the direction of its AI infrastructure, and DIGITIMES notes that the discussion extended well...

Wednesday 16 September 2026
Charts: Memory has held six of the ten fastest-growing spots in Taiwan's chip sector for seven straight months

Of the 94 listed Taiwanese semiconductor companies DIGITIMES tracks, 80 grew year-over-year in August 2026 and 14 declined. Median year-over-year...

Wednesday 16 September 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: Intel may lack a price edge over TSMC on SK Hynix HBM base dies

SK Hynix is reportedly considering Intel as an additional manufacturing source for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) base dies beginning with...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
Apple's foldable debut set to further widen Samsung Display's OLED lead
Samsung Display could emerge as one of the biggest supply-chain beneficiaries of Apple's entry into foldable smartphones, as the Korean panel maker already accounts for about two-thirds...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
AI servers are eating MLCC capacity, Chinese suppliers are taking what's left

AI servers are reshaping the global multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) market. Murata Manufacturing and Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEMCO)...