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Wednesday 19 August 2026
Commentary: Tsinghua Unigroup distances itself from failed US$15 billion Dongguan chip-cloud project

Tsinghua Unigroup's former "chip-to-cloud" expansion strategy unraveled after a debt crisis in 2020 and subsequent bankruptcy restructuring...

Wednesday 19 August 2026
Modi to inaugurate Semicon India 2026 as government courts global chipmakers
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the fifth edition of Semicon India on September 17 at Yashobhoomi (India International Convention and Expo Centre) in New Delhi,...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
Rattled supply chains: Over half of Taiwan firms feel the squeeze of US-Iran conflict

More than half of Taiwanese companies surveyed by TAITRA reported being negatively affected by the US-Iran conflict, with rising costs...

Wednesday 19 August 2026
Samsung and SK hynix build KRW278 trillion cash pile on AI memory surge

Samsung Electronics and SK hynix have amassed a combined KRW278 trillion (approx. US$196.9 billion) in cash equivalents and short-term...

Wednesday 19 August 2026
Hanmi Semiconductor scales up bonding capacity with US$91.4 million plant buy amid AI packaging boom

Amid a global shortage of AI semiconductor equipment, Hanmi Semiconductor announced on August 18 that it will acquire a factory owned...

Wednesday 19 August 2026
Shikhar Malhotra named chairman of HCL-Foxconn chip venture as Jewar plant advances

India Chip Private Limited, the semiconductor joint venture between HCL Group and Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn), has appointed...

Wednesday 19 August 2026
Charts: Memory, not logic, is doing the work in Taiwan's July chip revenue

Scale and growth have decoupled. TSMC still supplies more than half the sector's monthly sales, but the growth table now belongs to...

Wednesday 19 August 2026
Charts: New capacity is starting to show up in Taiwan's packaging and test revenue
Ardentec credits a new fab entering volume production for the sharpest monthly jump in the sub-sector; ELASER's revenue nearly doubled year on year on customer demand.
Tuesday 18 August 2026
LG Electronics lands first OSAT order for chip packaging LDI

LG Electronics has secured its first order for laser direct imaging (LDI) equipment used in semiconductor packaging, marking an early...

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Xintec readies 12-inch IVR backside copper for TSMC's next-gen AI chips

TSMC is expanding cooperation with packaging and testing affiliate Xintec as it develops next-generation power delivery and advanced packaging...

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
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
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
South Korea-India venture Indichem targets semiconductor materials supply chain without China
A new joint venture between South Korean and Indian chemical firms is betting that semiconductor materials can be made without touching China at any stage, positioning itself as an...
Monday 17 August 2026
SK keyfoundry expands 8-inch capacity as China demand strains supply

SK keyfoundry has approved KRW90 billion (approx. US$64 million) in capital spending to expand its 8-inch foundry capacity, a rare...