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Tuesday 18 November 2025

Samsung revives P5 fab construction for memory supercycle

Samsung's P5 plant at the second campus in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, will begin construction, with operations expected to start in 2028. Due to the weak memory market, P5 was previously...

Tuesday 18 November 2025

Samsung's glass substrate samples fall short of requirements

Samsung Electronics has been in active discussions with Samsung Electro-Mechanics (Semco), Japan's Ibiden, and Shinko Electric Industries regarding collaboration on semiconductor...

Tuesday 18 November 2025

The Intel–TSMC talent tug-of-war just escalated — with a familiar name

When Dr. Wei-Jen Lo, the former senior vice president for corporate strategy development at TSMC, retired in July at the age of 75, many...

Tuesday 18 November 2025

Samsung’s customer list reshuffles as Alphabet returns and Tesla’s $16.5bn chip deal goes on the books

Samsung Electronics has released its regulatory filing for the third quarter of 2025, revealing that Google—whose parent company...

Tuesday 18 November 2025

OSE plans price hikes and capacity expansion as memory market tightens

Orient Semiconductor Electronics (OSE) said the global memory industry has shifted decisively into a "seller's market," prompting the company to pass higher costs to customers and...

Tuesday 18 November 2025

China's legacy chip dominance poses 'severe' threat, warns author of 'Chip War'

Chris Miller, the influential author of Chip War, is warning that while the West is focused on advanced AI, China is quietly weaponizing the market for older legacy semiconductors.

Tuesday 18 November 2025

Why TSMC's procurement star took a downscaled role at Nvidia

Vanessa Lee, former TSMC vice president of materials management and a veteran procurement lead for Apple and Google, abruptly took an extended leave in June 2025. TSMC confirmed her...

Monday 17 November 2025

Samsung reportedly secures 2nm chip orders from crypto miners MicroBT and Canaan

Samsung Electronics has reportedly secured 2nm chip orders from two major Chinese cryptocurrency mining firms, MicroBT and Canaan. This marks a notable, though unconfirmed, client...

Monday 17 November 2025

Taiwan MCU makers expand into power and cooling to mitigate AI data center power consumption surge

As rack-level power consumption and cooling requirements rise in data centers, Taiwanese microcontroller (MCU) suppliers are innovating in power-supply and cooling-fan controls. Nuvoton...

Monday 17 November 2025

Korean startup Stratio tackles recycling crisis with new infrared sensor

Stratio, a Korean deep-tech startup founded by three Stanford Ph.D. graduates, is introducing what it claims is the first germanium-based short-wave infrared sensor designed for large-scale...

Monday 17 November 2025

Hiwin Mikrosystem secures strong semiconductor advanced packaging orders

Hiwin Mikrosystem, leveraging years of expertise in nanometer-level high-precision positioning platforms and direct-drive motors, has successfully penetrated the semiconductor and...

Monday 17 November 2025

Nvidia tightens grip on Vera Rubin cooling supply chain, squeezing margins

Nvidia is preparing a major shift in how it manages the supply chain for its next-generation Vera Rubin server platform, tightening control over both assembly and key thermal components...

Monday 17 November 2025

Tata Electronics partners with NIELIT Kohima to develop semiconductor skilling programs in Northeast India

Tata Electronics has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Kohima unit of the National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT) to collaborate on semiconductor-related...

Monday 17 November 2025

TSMC accelerates CoPoS mass production to 2029, Taiwan suppliers win first orders

The market is focusing on rising demand for Nvidia AI GPUs and various ASICs, with optimism growing as TSMC plans to expand its CoWoS capacity and sees OSAT partners joining the race...

Monday 17 November 2025

Weekly news roundup: Musk advances US chip-fab plans; SpaceX shifts industry economics; memory shortages continue into 2026

These are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories in the week of November 10 to November 16, 2025.

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