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Monday 24 August 2026
ASE's Huang urges AI profits to fund R&D for CPO, PLP

As chip processes move to 2nm and advanced packaging accelerates heterogeneous integration, semiconductor materials are shifting from...

Monday 24 August 2026
AI packaging demand exposes supply-chain gaps for Taiwan materials makers
AI demand is pushing semiconductor manufacturing deeper into advanced packaging, and ASE vice president Hiro Huang said suppliers are meeting less than half of overall demand. He warned...
Monday 24 August 2026
AI chip boom lifts South Korean semiconductor materials makers' profits in 2Q26
The AI semiconductor investment boom is increasingly spilling over into the materials supply chain. South Korea's major semiconductor materials suppliers broadly improved profitability...
Saturday 22 August 2026
America's launch boom runs into a capacity problem as White House targets 1,000 annual space launches
The US commercial space sector is entering a phase in which launching more rockets is no longer the only test of industrial scale. As flight cadence rises and multiple providers push...
Saturday 22 August 2026
Column: Lessons in supply chain resilience from China Huadian's power-compute coordination model
As AI develops rapidly, data centers are driving equally rapid growth in electricity demand. The stability of future energy supplies will directly determine whether AI computing capacity...
Friday 21 August 2026
Broadcom reportedly eyes up to US$100B debt financing to expand AI chip push
Broadcom is in talks with asset managers to raise more than US$60 billion in debt financing, with the potential package reaching as much as US$100 billion, as the chipmaker moves to...
Friday 21 August 2026
Research Insight: Upstream memory giants eye threefold 2026 revenue as 2027 capacity eases price surge
The global memory market is entering a sharp upcycle as cloud providers boost capital spending and demand for AI infrastructure lifts DRAM, NAND, and HBM prices. According to DIGITIMES,...
Friday 21 August 2026
JCET profit surges 79% on AI demand, with advanced packaging and CPO gaining scale

JCET Group reported record first-half revenue for 2026, with demand from artificial intelligence infrastructure and high-performance...

Friday 21 August 2026
Automation Taipei 2026: German suppliers target aerospace's hidden manufacturing bottlenecks
Aircraft and spacecraft may be judged by thrust, payload capacity, and range, but the German Industry Solutions Session held at Automation Taipei 2026 on August 20 suggested that some...
Friday 21 August 2026
SK Hynix weighs Japan memory fab in Miyagi, but says no investment is final
SK hynix is considering a large-scale memory semiconductor investment in Japan, with Miyagi Prefecture emerging as a potential site, although the company has stressed that no decision...
Friday 21 August 2026
Alibaba's 45% AI cloud jump masked by 75% capex surge and margin squeeze
Alibaba Group's June quarter is the clearest statement yet that the company now runs as an AI infrastructure business with an e-commerce cash engine attached, rather than the other...
Friday 21 August 2026
Nitto Denko to expand HDD baseboard capacity for AI data center demand
Nitto Denko said it will invest JPY28 billion (US$176.68 million) through fiscal 2028 to expand production of thin-film metal base boards for hard disk drives, raising capacity by...
Friday 21 August 2026
China silicon wafer maker NSIG nears 1.2 million monthly 300mm capacity after 90% shipment jump
National Silicon Industry Group (NSIG) reported a 36.51% rise in first-half 2026 revenue as shipments of 300mm semiconductor silicon wafers increased more than 90%, though continued...
Friday 21 August 2026
DIGITIMES's Colley Hwang warns Taiwan AI data center capacity lags South Korea

The inference economy has arrived, and Taiwan's tech industry must transition from the "knowledge economy" to the "inference economy,"...

Thursday 20 August 2026
Samsung gains foundry pricing power as 4nm capacity stays tight through 2027

Samsung Electronics is gaining pricing power in its foundry business as AI and high-bandwidth memory (HBM) demand tightens advanced-node...