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Tuesday 18 August 2026
Daxin Materials accelerates semiconductor push with 12 products in mass production
Daxin Materials is expanding its semiconductor footprint, with semiconductor materials accounting for nearly 23% of revenue in the second quarter of 2026. The company expects the segment...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
TSC sees semiconductor material prices rise up to 15% as petrochemical costs squeeze supply

Topco Scientific (TSC) said at its second-quarter 2026 earnings conference that rising upstream petrochemical costs are pushing up...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Innolux posts 4th straight profit, sees consumer display slip in 3Q26
Innolux said net profit after tax reached NT$4.65 billion (US$146.3 million) in the second quarter of 2026, marking a fourth consecutive quarter in the black. The panel maker warned...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Russia fuels China's ICE exports while Europe's NEV figures mask transshipment demand
China's accelerating auto export boom reveals two trends that challenge conventional assumptions. First, Russia—China's largest single export market—is still overwhelmingly...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
China AI chip sales scale: Biren's revenue rockets up to 21-fold

Chinese AI chipmaker Biren expects first-half 2026 revenue to reach CNY1.15-1.3 billion (US$171-193 million), up about 1,852% to 2,107%...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Asus lifts server outlook, Supermicro orders hit record highs as Nvidia gears up to beat guidance

Concerns over whether the AI surge is a bubble continue to linger. However, recent indicators—from Nvidia's latest capital initiatives...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
South Korea's Gwangju chip hub faces looming water crunch as experts push underground storage and AI management
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are preparing to invest in four memory fabs in southwestern South Korea, but alongside power infrastructure, the semiconductor industry's uninterrupted...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Nvidia's Taipei hub pushes power demand to 240MW, triggering scramble to keep lights on

Nvidia's new Taiwan headquarters will be located in the Beitou-Shilin Technology Park, with construction expected to begin by the end...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
AI drives power semiconductors into at least a two-year shortage
The cloud AI data center boom is not close to bursting, according to chip supply-chain players. They say that analog ICs, including power semiconductors, will stay tight for years...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Arm faces capacity squeeze as CPU demand tops US$2 billion

Arm Holdings' expansion from asset-light IP licensing into finished data center processors is putting the company into direct competition...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
AI server supply chain ramps up capital, talent, and capacity
The AI server supply chain continues to expand capital expenditures, pouring in cash, building factories, and hiring aggressively, to heighten barriers to entry. On top of rapid product...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
H3 launch ramp pushes Mitsubishi Electric toward a new era of parallel satellite production

The expansion of Mitsubishi Electric's satellite manufacturing business is converging with the higher launch cadence targeted for Japan's...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
AI server demand pushes high-end MLCC lead times toward 40 weeks
Multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) supply is increasingly diverging by product specification, with mainstream components remaining relatively stable while lead times for some high-capacitance,...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
European industrial suppliers gain from AI data center buildout
European makers of vacuum pumps, heat exchangers, and industrial gases are seeing new demand from the rapid buildout of AI factories, according to Bloomberg. The shift is...
Tuesday 18 August 2026
South Korea telcos pass KRW1 trillion in first-half AI data center revenue
South Korea's three major telecom operators generated more than KRW1 trillion (approx. US$706 billion) in combined artificial intelligence data center revenue in the first half of...