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Friday 6 November 2026
Samsung speeds P5 Fab 2 construction as memory chip shortage looks to last through 2028
Samsung Electronics plans to begin structural work at its P5 Fab 2 facility in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, in January 2027, accelerating its memory capacity expansion as chip shortages...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Micron has paused a Taiwan cleanroom since October amid labor dispute, but keeps EUV plans
Micron has paused construction of a new cleanroom at its Fab 11E site in Taoyuan, Taiwan, since mid-October 2026, according to semiconductor supply chain sources. The company recently...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Coherent pitches itself as the neutral optics supplier after Marvell-Lumentum deal
Coherent is positioning itself as the optics supplier with no stake in the chip wars, two days after Marvell Technology agreed to acquire one of its closest rivals.
Thursday 5 November 2026
Chipmakers rush to secure equipment for 2029 as lead times top two years
Chipmakers are moving to secure production equipment for delivery as far ahead as 2029, as AI-driven fab expansion pushes some equipment lead times beyond two years and forces manufacturers...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Flexium eyes 2027 breakthrough as PTFE enters mass production in 2028
Flexium Interconnect chairman Walter Cheng said the company has emerged from the toughest operating downturn of the past two years and expects AI orders for smart glasses and infrastructure...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Google commits US$15 billion to expand Malaysian data centers in 2027, 2028
Google's plan to invest US$15 billion in Malaysia over 2027 and 2028 deepens its bet on what AFP calls Southeast Asia's fastest-growing data center hub, and ties the expansion to commitments...
Wednesday 4 November 2026
Marvell's Lumentum deal gives optical DSP rivals until 2028 to court its customers
Marvell's proposed all-stock acquisition of Lumentum faces a challenge beyond a shrinking takeover premium: whether optical module makers will shift orders away from its dominant optical...
Wednesday 4 November 2026
Why Marvell's Lumentum deal could send more AI optics orders to Taiwan
Marvell's proposed US$115 billion acquisition of Lumentum could bring Taiwanese optical component makers more orders, industry sources in Taiwan say. The deal, due to close in the...
Tuesday 3 November 2026
MediaTek, Marvell, Broadcom battle for ASIC supply through 2028
Competition in the AI application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) market will extend beyond 2028, industry sources said, with MediaTek, Broadcom, and Marvell competing not only...
Monday 2 November 2026
MediaTek pins second ASIC project and customer to 2028
MediaTek's latest earnings call focused heavily on its data-center ASIC business, as CEO Rick Tsai and CFO David Ku addressed market rumors about delays to its second AI accelerator...
Monday 2 November 2026
EasyJet bets on Starlink for full-fleet connectivity by 2027
UK low-cost airline EasyJet has agreed with SpaceX to install Starlink satellite internet on its A320, A320neo, and A321neo fleets starting in the first half of 2027, with the rollout...
Saturday 31 October 2026
Radiant targets next-gen CPO above 6.4T, eyes 2028 mass production
Radiant Opto-Electronics, a major backlight module maker, is expanding into new businesses and targeting next-generation optical communications architecture, particularly co-packaged...
Friday 30 October 2026
Amazon 3Q26 earnings call: AWS targets 40%-plus growth through 2028 as satellite costs weigh on near-term profit
Amazon expects its cloud unit to keep growing faster than 40% a year through 2028, even as costs from its satellite internet project hold back fourth-quarter profit.
Thursday 29 October 2026
Analysis: Samsung's record quarter came from higher prices, not more chips; expects buyers to get no relief before 2028
Samsung Electronics' third-quarter profit came almost entirely from charging more for memory chips, not from selling more of them. On its earnings call, the company also told investors...
Thursday 29 October 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix invest KRW110 trillion as memory supply boost slips to 2028
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are undertaking their largest-ever equipment investments in 2026, but the memory supply increase is not expected to materialize until 2028. By then,...