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Tuesday 29 September 2026
SoftBank subsidiary Saimemory taps Shinko to bring ZAM closer to commercialization
Saimemory, a SoftBank subsidiary, has brought Shinko Electric Industries into its effort to commercialize Z-Angle Memory (ZAM), adding packaging-substrate, high-density integration...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
In global semiconductor race, Singapore bets on critical, mature technologies
Amid the ongoing restructuring of the global semiconductor supply chain, Singapore is focusing on advanced packaging, heterogeneous integration, silicon photonics, and optical interconnects,...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Column: Why Micron's US$250M venture fund is about more than HBM margins—Taiwan has a stake in it
Micron unveiled the Micron Ventures Paradigm Fund, a US$250 million venture vehicle, in mid-August 2026, as the memory maker pairs more than US$25 billion in fiscal 2026 capex with...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
South Korea AI compute squeeze hits researchers and startups
South Korea's AI sector is facing a growing GPU shortage as research institutes and small companies struggle to secure enough compute for model training and deployment. As government...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Samsung Foundry nears 60% 2nm yield, shifts focus to power efficiency to win customers
Samsung Electronics' foundry business has reportedly raised yield on its 2-nanometer (2nm) SF2 process to nearly 60% and is now shifting engineering work toward power efficiency and...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
US, China eye US$60 billion in tariff relief, but chips stay off the table
The US and China are moving toward tariff reductions on about US$60 billion of bilateral trade following last week's Trump-Xi summit, but semiconductors and other strategically sensitive...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Advanced packaging shifts toward system integration as AI renews semiconductor talent appeal

At Singapore's Innovate Together 2026 conference on September 25, executives and researchers from A*STAR's Institute of Microelectronics...

Tuesday 29 September 2026
Beyond 16 layers: HBM stacks test advanced packaging equipment makers
At Singapore's Innovate Together 2026 conference on September 25, equipment makers including ASM, ASMPT, and KLA said the challenges facing next-generation advanced packaging are expanding...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Samsung bonus plan to lift South Korea talent race

Samsung Electronics' Device Solutions division is set to announce the calculation and payout rules for its special management performance...

Tuesday 29 September 2026
GlobalFoundries eyes GaN expansion to challenge TSMC in AI

GlobalFoundries (GF) is preparing a major global capacity expansion as TSMC is set to gradually exit gallium nitride (GaN) foundry services...

Tuesday 29 September 2026
GF's MIPS bets on RISC-V physical AI, expands into autos and data centers
MIPS, a GlobalFoundries (GF) unit, said it has completed its integration with the ARC unit acquired from Synopsys earlier this year and is using the move to position RISC-V for physical...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Chips make up nearly half of South Korea's September exports; China, Hong Kong account for 52% of them
Semiconductors made up nearly half of South Korea's exports in the first 20 days of September, while China and Hong Kong combined accounted for more than half of the country's chip...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
VSMC Singapore fab fully booked as VIS weighs Fab 2
Capacity at VisionPower Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (VSMC) first 12-inch wafer fab in Singapore is fully booked as the joint venture between Vanguard International Semiconductor...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
TSMC helps VSMC build first Singapore fab in 22 months at lower cost than US
VSMC, the joint venture between Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) and NXP Semiconductors, officially opened its first 12-inch wafer fab in Singapore on September 28, completing...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Vanguard chairman says AI slowdown won't free up chip capacity

Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) and NXP Semiconductors' joint venture, VisionPower Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (VSMC),...