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Wednesday 7 October 2026
Apple and LG Electronics reportedly team up on branded smart home devices
Apple and LG Electronics are reportedly pairing up to create a line of smart home devices, though the devices will carry the LG brand name. The two companies are expanding their reach...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: HBM expansion raises the bar for memory offload
The boundary for adopting external capacity is changing, as workloads that previously needed memory offload because of insufficient high-bandwidth memory (HBM) can now run directly...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Towa returns strategic chip packaging production to Japan as AI demand accelerates
Towa plans to build a new factory in Kyoto Prefecture to produce assembly and packaging equipment for advanced semiconductors used in artificial intelligence applications.
Wednesday 7 October 2026
iRobot races to catch Chinese robot vacuum rivals after admitting innovation lag
Once the global leader in robot vacuums, iRobot is trying to regain ground after bankruptcy restructuring and its takeover by contract manufacturer Shenzhen Picea Robotics. The global...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Formosa Automobile targets 20% heavy-tractor market share with new DAF XF models, EV roadmap
Formosa Automobile, a member of Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Group, unveiled the new-generation DAF XF long-haul tractor on October 6, introducing 35-ton and 43-ton models for heavy-haul...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
AI supercycle, pricing, and Terafab top the agenda ahead of TSMC's earnings call
TSMC will hold its third-quarter earnings call on October 15 this year.
Wednesday 7 October 2026
iRobot reenters Taiwan market after restructuring, unveils five new models
The global household cleaning robot market grew by double digits in 2025, making it a key area for smart home development and intense competition in smart home devices. After filing...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Semicon 2.0 widens focus beyond fabs: Dassault Systèmes pitches virtual twins to India's chipmakers
Dassault Systèmes is pitching its virtual twin software as the link between India's chip design base and the factories and packaging plants now being built under the country's...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Exclusive: GaN defends fast-charging turf, eyes AI power as low-cost SiC pushes into consumer electronics
The traditional market divide between the third-generation semiconductors gallium nitride (GaN) and silicon carbide (SiC) is seeing greater overlap in 2026, with SiC increasingly encroaching...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Canon courts India's chip projects as toolmakers jostle for an early foothold
India's young chip industry is becoming a contest among the world's largest semiconductor equipment makers, with Canon the latest to declare its interest. The race remains at an early,...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Seagate, Toshiba reportedly compete for TDK's HDD head unit, a key AI storage link

Seagate Technology and Toshiba are reportedly competing to acquire TDK's hard-disk-drive magnetic-head business, a deal that could reshape one...

Wednesday 7 October 2026
Hua Yang, Zeiss launch COSMA-M for chip metrology
Hua Yang Precision Machinery has teamed up with Zeiss to launch COSMA-M, a high-precision measurement system aimed at the semiconductor metrology market as demand surges from AI, high-performance...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Kingston retains 62% memory module share as B2B AI demand surges
Memory module maker Kingston Technology announced that, according to TrendForce's revenue rankings, it held a 62% share of the global third-party dynamic random-access memory (DRAM)...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics secures 2027 AI server MLCC demand as supply pressure builds
Samsung Electro-Mechanics (Semco) has secured another major AI server order, signing a KRW290 billion (about US$216 million) contract to supply multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs)...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: AI servers will carry nearly twice as many CPUs per accelerator by 2027
Demand for agentic AI in commercial and consumer markets was rising rapidly, and the market appeal of consumer services such as Meta Muse was expanding. In agentic AI tasks, large...