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Monday 15 September 2025
US adds 23 Chinese firms to entity list as China launches anti-dumping probe on US chip imports
The technological rivalry between China and the US escalated further on September 12, when the US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added 23 Chinese companies,...
Friday 12 September 2025
Indian officials say Foxconn remains committed despite Chinese worker departure, outlines India Semiconductor Mission 2.0
Senior Indian semiconductor officials said on September 11, 2025, that Foxconn remains "completely upbeat" about its expansion plans in India despite being forced to send Chinese...
Friday 12 September 2025
SEMICON Taiwan 2025: AMD pushes panel-level, 3D, and optical packaging as AI demands soar
At SEMICON Taiwan 2025, AMD Fellow Daniel Ng, who heads the company's OSAT technology development, laid out a stark assessment of the semiconductor industry's next bottleneck: the...
Friday 12 September 2025
SEMICON Taiwan 2025: Nvidia shifts optical roadmap from co-packaged to co-integrated optics
Nvidia is advancing its optical interconnect research to support the growing scale of "AI factories" and accelerated computing clusters.
Friday 12 September 2025
SEMICON Taiwan 2025: IBM's roadmap for semiconductor and quantum development extends through 2042
At a SEMICON Taiwan forum on Quantum computing, IBM Japan CTO and Vice President Norishige Morimoto detailed how AI's growing complexity—estimated to have surged by more than...
Friday 12 September 2025
SEMICON Taiwan 2025: Broadcom eyes CPO expansion beyond AI scale-out data centers
Manish Mehta, vice president of Marketing and Operations for Broadcom's Optical Systems Division, delivered a keynote address at SEMICON Taiwan 2025 focused on heterogeneous integration...
Wednesday 10 September 2025
Commentary: YMTC's decade-long march, leadership shifts, and the undercurrent of China's memory substitution drive
YMTC, China's leading NAND flash producer, has unveiled a US$2.9 billion Phase III venture in Wuhan, signaling its determination to scale up capacity and sharpen its edge in next-generation...
Monday 8 September 2025
Taiwan's high-tech supply chain faces rising pressures amid global expansion and outsourcing trends
Taiwan's high-tech manufacturers are encountering significant challenges as they establish factories overseas, particularly due to cost pressures stemming from US President Donald...
Thursday 4 September 2025
Tech Forum 2025: US-based server assembly surges as Taiwan's EMS leaders navigate rising costs and trade uncertainties
The Trump administration's tariff policy announced in April 2025 is reshaping global server supply chains, prompting Taiwan's leading EMS firms—Foxconn, Wistron, Quanta, Inventec,...
Thursday 4 September 2025
China imposes anti-circumvention duties on US-made optical fibers
China's Ministry of Commerce has ruled that US optical fiber producers circumvented existing anti-dumping measures by altering trade patterns and exporting a different category of...
Thursday 4 September 2025
GlobalFoundries finds new road in China: Zensemi partnership anchors auto chip strategy
GlobalFoundries (GF), the US-based contract chipmaker, is accelerating its "China for China" strategy through a partnership with Guangzhou Zen Semiconductor (Zensemi). The collaboration...
Thursday 4 September 2025
China's SiC substrate industry faces setback, seeks strategic pivot
In early 2025, a leading Chinese third-category silicon carbide (SiC) substrate manufacturer faced international IDM customer complaints over product quality, triggering market concerns...
Wednesday 3 September 2025
Global tech supply chains are being reshaped by three key 'battlefields', says DIGITIMES analysts
Semiconductor and electronics supply chains are undergoing a major transformation, driven by the rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI), changing market leadership, and global...
Wednesday 3 September 2025
Yageo receives Japanese approval to acquire Shibaura Electronics after national security review
Taiwan-based Yageo has secured approval from Japanese foreign direct investment (FDI) authorities to acquire Shibaura Electronics, following an extensive national security review...
Wednesday 3 September 2025
China's industry sector expects further moves as TSMC loses US waiver for equipment use at Nanjing fab
TSMC has become the latest chipmaker to lose its exemption to use US semiconductor equipment in China, following similar moves against South Korea's Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix,...