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Thursday 29 October 2026
Analysis: Samsung's record quarter came from higher prices, not more chips; expects buyers to get no relief before 2028
Samsung Electronics' third-quarter profit came almost entirely from charging more for memory chips, not from selling more of them. On its earnings call, the company also told investors...
Thursday 29 October 2026
Nvidia trims HBM4 bandwidth for Rubin platform, sources say
Nvidia is reportedly adjusting the fourth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM4) specification for its Vera Rubin NVL72 platform, cutting bandwidth per GPU from the previously announced...
Thursday 29 October 2026
Analysis: Google opens its AI chips to rivals but won't say if it makes money
Google is now supplying its tensor processing units (TPUs) to companies it competes with, including Anthropic and Apple. On Alphabet's third-quarter earnings call, management gave...
Thursday 29 October 2026
Samsung's AI memory boom drives record profit as device division stays in loss
Samsung Electronics' latest results show AI infrastructure demand increasingly determining the group's earnings, with soaring semiconductor profit offsetting continued losses in its...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
SK Hynix says customers want more than twice the HBM it can supply
SK Hynix said customers are seeking more than twice the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) volume it can currently supply, as moves toward shorter memory stacks reflect supply shortages rather...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
SK Hynix's next bet goes beyond memory chips
SK Hynix is looking beyond its position as a leading supplier of high-bandwidth memory (HBM), using venture investments to gain a greater say in how next-generation AI infrastructure...
Wednesday 28 October 2026
SK Hynix's next AI memory bet isn't HBM
SK Hynix is turning to high-bandwidth flash (HBF) to address growing memory bottlenecks in AI inference, as increasingly complex AI agents generate more data than can be economically...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix eye 2Q27 shipments of 8-layer HBM4 to Nvidia
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are targeting the second quarter of 2027 to begin volume shipments of eight-layer HBM4 memory to Nvidia, ZDNet Korea reported on October 26,...
Monday 26 October 2026
Podcast highlights: TSMC's 3nm demand story, Samsung HBM shift, and A14 ramp
Following TSMC's third-quarter 2026 earnings call, DIGITIMES analyst Luke Lin provided in a podcast additional analysis of several details that received limited attention in market...
Saturday 24 October 2026
Nvidia rejects near-term memory glut fears, leaves CXMT cooperation open
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company did not expect memory supply to exceed demand in the coming years and remained open to working with China's ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT)...
Friday 23 October 2026
SK Hynix reportedly engages suppliers to bring 30% more efficient iHBM cooling to HBM5 production

SK Hynix is reportedly working with materials and equipment suppliers to commercialise its next-generation iHBM cooling technology, targeting a...

Thursday 22 October 2026
PSMC raises mature-node prices again, targets 20% increase in 2027
Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing (PSMC) reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of NT$21.3 billion (US$654.3 million), up 23% quarter-over-quarter, as higher foundry prices, a stronger...
Thursday 22 October 2026
Samsung's Nvidia HBM bid raises four strategic concerns
Samsung Electronics is reportedly turning to TSMC's 3nm process to produce base dies for Nvidia's custom high-bandwidth memory (NVHBM), abandoning its long-standing turnkey integration...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Samsung shifts M2800 modem to 2nm, frees 4nm capacity for HBM base dies
Samsung Electronics is transitioning its 4nm production capacity to HBM, with its next-generation mobile modem, the M2800, set to move to a 2nm process. The freed 4nm capacity will...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Breaking AI's memory wall: former TSMC VP charts a path with HBM, optical links and 3D stacking
AI processor performance continues to improve, but memory bandwidth is growing more slowly, making data supply a major constraint on AI chip performance and energy efficiency. Efforts...