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Thursday 13 August 2026
GaAs gains ground in short-reach AI optics as InP constraints mount
As AI workloads push data center interconnects from 800G toward 1.6T, indium phosphide (InP) has become a critical material for high-speed optical links, particularly for longer-distance...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Intel signals memory push after hiring former SK Hynix CEO

Intel is signaling a broader push into next-generation memory technologies, with CEO Lip-Bu Tan revealing that the company is exploring...

Thursday 13 August 2026
Hanmi pulls ahead of Hanwha as HBM4 orders rebound

South Korea's Hanmi Semiconductor is pulling ahead of rival Hanwha Semitech in thermal compression (TC) bonders for high-bandwidth memory...

Thursday 13 August 2026
India's state of Odisha sweetens chips, renewable energy incentives to court ISM projects

Odisha's state cabinet has approved a third amendment to its Semiconductor Manufacturing and Fabless Policy, adding fresh capital support...

Thursday 13 August 2026
Taiwan manufacturers call for faster nuclear restart to keep pace with AI, chip growth

The Chinese National Federation of Industries (CNFI), a major industrial and manufacturing association in Taiwan, called for the government...

Thursday 13 August 2026
Lenovo Capital backs Niobium Optoelectronics in Series B funding for TFLN chips
Jiangsu Niobium Optoelectronics Technology, a Chinese maker of thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonic chips, has closed a Series B funding round worth several hundred million yuan...
Thursday 13 August 2026
TSMC-Sony image sensor venture pushes Japan chip investment to JPY6 trillion

TSMC said on August 11 that it will invest in CMOS image sensor development and mass production with Sony Group in Kumamoto Prefecture,...

Thursday 13 August 2026
From lab bench to IPO: How Taiwan's top university aims to turn professors into founders, campus into a unicorn factory

National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), one of Taiwan's leading research universities, has spent more than a decade cultivating a campus...

Thursday 13 August 2026
Vietnam opens Haiphong free trade zone to court semiconductor investment
Vietnam has launched the Haiphong Free Trade Zone to draw high-value investment into northern port city of Haiphong, with semiconductors, precision manufacturing, and other strategic...
Thursday 13 August 2026
South Korea widens chip strategy beyond Samsung and SK Hynix with KRW5 trillion ecosystem fund
As market momentum spirals into an intensifying race over AI infrastructure buildouts, the global landscape has entered a more aggressive round of AI-centered investment, with national-scale...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
Foxconn's profit growth outpaces capex; no equity raise planned for 2027 buildout
Foxconn told investors on August 12 that its earnings are now growing faster than the spending required to expand AI server capacity — and that it can fund a bigger 2027 buildout...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: Ecosystem not yet ready for co-packaged optics, ASE's Nicole Tien warns

Co-packaged optics has become the inflection point for AI infrastructure, but the industry has not yet built the shared testing standards...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP photonics panel warns CPO packaging is still unsettled as pluggables fade

Pluggable front-panel optics still own the market, but Arista co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim gave them a deadline at an OCP APAC panel...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
FocalTech expects demand to improve in the second half of 2026
Touch controller and display driver IC maker FocalTech Systems said it saw revenue regain quarter-on-quarter momentum in the second quarter of 2026 as the 618 shopping festival, new...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
Intel's Israel fab stirs back to life, but case for 14A remains unconfirmed
Intel appears to be restarting work on Fab 38, its long-idle facility in Kiryat Gat, Israel, though how far the project will go — and whether it will ultimately run the company's...