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Thursday 8 October 2026
Lam Research launches South Korea chip fund after 15,000-chamber milestone
Lam Research is launching its first country-specific semiconductor venture fund in South Korea after shipping its 15,000th locally manufactured processing chamber, deepening its manufacturing...
Thursday 8 October 2026
SpaceX pursues US$40 billion Nvidia chip financing while Terafab charts path to AI compute independence
SpaceX is reportedly seeking US$40 billion in financing to purchase Nvidia chips, a massive capital commitment driven by surging artificial intelligence (AI) computing demand. Viewed...
Thursday 8 October 2026
US and 14 nations issue statement on overcapacity, target semiconductors
The US and 14 other economies issued a joint statement after the G20 trade ministers' meeting in Milwaukee, pledging to work together on structural overcapacity and excess production...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Infineon completes acquisition of C2i to expand AI data center power capabilities
Infineon has finished acquiring India-based C2i Semiconductors, a maker of software-defined multiphase controllers and smart power stages used in AI data centers. The acquisition indicates...
Thursday 8 October 2026
TSMC's third-quarter revenue rises 51% to NT$1.49 trillion as September sales stay near record
TSMC reported consolidated revenue of about NT$511.86 billion (approx. US$16.1 billion) for September 2026. That was up 54.6% from NT$330.98 billion a year earlier and down 0.6% from...
Thursday 8 October 2026
India's chip packaging plants start exporting, but scale, skills, and subsidies test the next phase
India's outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) sector has moved from inaugurations to its first export shipments. The challenge now is scale. The new plants are small, still...
Thursday 8 October 2026
AUO subsidiary Darwin shifts toward high-end manufacturing, explores CPO and semiconductor opportunities
As AUO deepens its push into co-packaged optics (CPO), its subsidiary Darwin Precisions is also exploring opportunities in the semiconductor sector, leveraging its expertise in precision...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Malaysia's chip push: a new island and pressure from Washington and Beijing
Malaysia's plan to climb the semiconductor value chain is colliding with two constraints: a shortage of land in Penang, the heart of its chip industry, and mounting pressure to pick...
Thursday 8 October 2026
AI demand drives Episil SiC V-shaped recovery as GaN and TVS capacity reaches full utilization
Episil Technologies Chairman Rex Hsu said overall demand has gradually recovered following an industry downturn, with silicon carbide (SiC) capacity utilization rebounding sharply...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Huawei says Ascend tops Nvidia in China as demand gap remains
Huawei rotating chairman Eric Xu said he believes the company's Ascend AI chips have surpassed Nvidia in market share in China, but that domestic demand still cannot be fully met....
Thursday 8 October 2026
AI boom reportedly drives tech giants toward new debt financing for chips
Major technology companies are increasingly turning to private credit and other forms of debt to fund the enormous cost of AI infrastructure, as demand for computing capacity pushes...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Wolfspeed secures conditional US$1.5B US defense loan for SiC, GaN expansion
Wolfspeed has received a conditional commitment for up to US$1.5 billion in long-term financing from the US Department of War to expand domestic production of silicon carbide (SiC)...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Huawei claims to have largely cut US tech reliance
Huawei executive director and consumer business group chairman Richard Yu said at a recent media roundtable that the company has worked with China's supply chain since US export controls...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Analysis: Musk keeps Terafab in-house, shifting execution risk onto his own companies
Elon Musk has moved to quell uncertainty over Intel's position in the Terafab chip project, stressing that his companies will build and operate the planned semiconductor complex themselves...
Thursday 8 October 2026
AI agents fuel new CPU demand, lifting AMD
Before generative AI rose and Nvidia GPUs came to dominate the market, the central processing unit (CPU) was the main compute engine for servers. Now, as the personal AI agent boom...