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Monday 24 November 2025
Memory supercycle frenzy expected to drive Samsung and SK Hynix 2025 tax payments
South Korea's leading chipmakers, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, are projected to pay a combined corporate tax of approximately KRW6 trillion (US$4.2 billion) for the year 2025,...
Monday 24 November 2025
Intel's EMIB becomes potential alternative to TSMC's CoWoS
TSMC's advanced CoWoS packaging capacity has become extremely tight, resulting in only a few leading AI chipmakers having the means to book capacity in large quantities. Other ASIC...
Friday 21 November 2025
White House seeks to block GAIN AI Act, easing Nvidia and AMD export risks
The White House is reportedly pressuring Congress to exclude the Guaranteeing AI National Access and Innovation (GAIN AI) Act from the upcoming National Defense Authorization Act...
Thursday 20 November 2025
ASML expands into advanced CoWoS packaging with new I-line system
Kuan-Cheng Hsu, ASML's Taiwan and Southeast Asia customer marketing head, highlighted that AI-driven semiconductor demand is entering its strongest growth cycle ever, accelerating...
Wednesday 19 November 2025
Taiwan suppliers will determine silicon photonics breakout
Silicon Valley venture firm Playground recently held a media event in Taiwan featuring a fireside chat with Ayar Labs, a silicon photonics startup backed by leading chipmakers including...
Wednesday 19 November 2025
Taiwan IC designers: Edge AI boom hinges on shipment volume
The stark contrast between cloud AI and edge AI markets has led chipmakers to respond very differently when assessing AI opportunities. While semiconductor companies in Europe and...
Friday 14 November 2025
SMIC warns of 2026 memory squeeze: AI demand surges, customers turn cautious
SMIC warns that an emerging memory shortage could disrupt production of cars, smartphones, and consumer electronics as early as 2026. Co-CEO Zhao Haijun said Chinese manufacturers...
Sunday 9 November 2025
SK Hynix pushes 1C DRAM for HBM4E as AI memory demand surges
South Korea's two largest memory chipmakers, SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics, are reportedly finalizing supply agreements with Nvidia for next-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM4),...
Thursday 6 November 2025
China bans Nvidia from state data centers, mandates domestic AI chips
China has escalated its campaign to reduce dependence on foreign technology. The country now requires all new state-funded data centers to use domestically produced artificial intelligence...
Thursday 6 November 2025
Cambricon's NeuWare breaks China's dependence on Nvidia CUDA
In the AI era, competition among chipmakers goes beyond compute power and centers on ecosystem and full-stack integration. Beijing-based Cambricon Technologies, an AI chip designer...
Wednesday 5 November 2025
China's chipmakers cash in on localization momentum
China's semiconductor sector is entering a structural growth phase in 2025, fueled by persistent demand from artificial intelligence (AI), electric vehicles (EVs), and advanced man...
Tuesday 4 November 2025
China's Beidou satellites power a new era of homegrown navigation chips

As China completes the global deployment of its BeiDou-3 Navigation Satellite System, officials are now focused on exporting the technology...

Monday 3 November 2025
Nexperia's supply freeze upends global chip chains, but opens doors for Taiwan

The aftershocks of Nexperia's abrupt suspension of power semiconductor shipments continue to reverberate across the global electronics...

Tuesday 28 October 2025
Power crunch threatens Taiwan's semiconductor supply chain
Driven by global net-zero ambitions and the rapid rise of AI computing, electricity has evolved from basic infrastructure into a strategic resource shaping national competitiveness...
Thursday 16 October 2025
ASML sees continued growth in EUV demand, confident in High NA progress
ASML remains optimistic about the outlook for its extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography systems, including the next-generation High Numerical Aperture (High NA) EUV tools, as semiconductor...