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Tuesday 14 July 2026
Bosch starts sample production at its first US chip plant after securing up to US$225 million

German automotive supplier and chipmaker Bosch has begun sample production at its first US semiconductor factory after finalizing an...

Tuesday 14 July 2026
AI demand pushes global ABF substrate market into shortage, with pressure seen through 2028

The AI boom is tightening an important but often overlooked part of the chip supply chain, with global readers likely to feel the effects...

Tuesday 14 July 2026
Commentary: Huawei builds NPO alliance to shape CPO-era optical interconnect standards

The AI race is expanding from computing power to data transmission, making optical interconnects a critical battleground for next-generation...

Tuesday 14 July 2026
UMC pushes into silicon photonics in Singapore to ride AI's connectivity crunch
United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) is moving into silicon photonics, positioning itself to address one of the defining bottlenecks in artificial-intelligence data centers: the speed...
Tuesday 14 July 2026
Liying tops NT$100 million as AI chip demand lifts semiconductor services
Liying said revenue reached a quarterly record of NT$108 million in the second quarter of 2026, crossing the NT$100 million (US$3.11 million) mark for the first time as strong demand...
Tuesday 14 July 2026
Samsung brings HBM, logic, and optics together in packaging push
Samsung Electronics is developing advanced packaging technology that combines high-bandwidth memory (HBM), logic chips and silicon photonics (SiPh) as it seeks to address the rising...
Monday 13 July 2026
Samsung develops glass interposer as TSMC expands packaging capacity

Samsung Electronics and Samsung Display are jointly developing a next-generation glass interposer that could lower the cost of packaging...

Monday 13 July 2026
Trump admin reportedly urged Apple to procure chips from Intel in exchange for dropping tariffs

Reports have emerged that Apple may have managed to avoid 100% tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump, partly by agreeing to...

Monday 13 July 2026
TSMC June 2026 revenue surges 68% as AI demand continues to fuel growth
TSMC reported another month of strong revenue growth, underscoring continued demand for advanced chips used in AI applications. According to the company's June revenue report, consolidated...
Monday 13 July 2026
Meta, MediaTek, TSMC push AI chips to challenge Google

Chip industry sources said Meta's cloud AI chip procurement could soon catch up with Google or Amazon AWS among the four major cloud...

Monday 13 July 2026
Apple reportedly accelerates AI chip roadmap as next-gen Macs prioritize neural processing

Apple is reshaping its Mac chip roadmap to prioritize AI, accelerating development of future processors as the company seeks to strengthen...

Monday 13 July 2026
China's Nvidia H200 pivot reveals why CUDA still rules AI

China is preparing to allow a limited number of Nvidia H200 AI accelerators into the country, giving Alibaba, ByteDance, and DeepSeek...

Monday 13 July 2026
AI's new gatekeepers: US and China tighten grip on frontier models

The world's most powerful AI models are encountering a new constraint beyond chips, data and engineering talent: governments increasingly...

Monday 13 July 2026
MA-tek hits record June revenue on rising AI chip testing demand, CPO complexity
Semiconductor testing company Materials Analysis Technology (MA-tek) reported June 2026 revenue of NT$558 million (approx. US$17.41 million), up 2.56% from May and 11.01% year over...
Monday 13 July 2026
Musk assembles Intel, SpaceX talent for Tesla wafer fab ambitions

Tesla and SpaceX are already converging around chips, talent and manufacturing under Terafab, even before any merger speculation turns...