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Tuesday 7 July 2026
Samsung Electronics second-quarter operating profit surges on AI memory boom
Samsung Electronics reported a sharp jump in second-quarter operating profit, underscoring how global demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure is reshaping the memory-chip...
Tuesday 7 July 2026
Lenovo confirms YMTC SSDs in notebooks sold outside China
Lenovo confirmed that some notebooks sold outside China now use solid-state drives from Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC), marking the first known appearance of the Chinese memory...
Tuesday 7 July 2026
Ingenic says DRAM foundry capacity strain won't ease until 2H27
China memory makers are diverging in their outlook as AI demand keeps the global memory market tight. After GigaDevice recently issued an unusual risk warning, Beijing-based special...
Tuesday 7 July 2026
Memory prices rebound as supply tightens, with global buyers facing higher costs

Global markets are likely to feel the effects of a renewed rise in memory prices, as tighter supply and early inventory buying lift...

Monday 6 July 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron face HBM4 race as custom chip demand grows

The global high-bandwidth memory market is expected to pivot from HBM3E to HBM4 in the second half of 2026, setting up a sharper contest...

Monday 6 July 2026
Longsys forecasts sharp 1H26 profit growth on stronger memory market, AI demand
Longsys Electronics expects a sharp rise in first-half profit as global memory supply stays tight and demand from artificial intelligence-related devices strengthens. The outlook points...
Monday 6 July 2026
South Korea's chip hub push, led by Samsung, SK, draws KRW896 trillion — and a market selloff

SK Group, Samsung Electronics, and Amkor will invest a combined KRW896 trillion (US$585.2 billion) to build South Korea's second major...

Monday 6 July 2026
South Korea weighs longer hours for chip R&D in new tech zones

South Korea is considering exempting research and development personnel from the country's 52-hour workweek limit inside proposed Mega...

Monday 6 July 2026
Samsung said to seek up to 20% DRAM price hike as AI demand tightens supply

Samsung Electronics is negotiating with customers to raise average selling prices for commodity DRAM by as much as 20% in the third...

Monday 6 July 2026
Exclusive Interview: Dutch startup Nearfield bets on process control to rival EUV in AI chip manufacturing

As Moore's Law approaches its physical limits, simply shrinking semiconductor process nodes is no longer the sole path to improving...

Monday 6 July 2026
SEMI warns Trump admin against meddling in memory market

SEMI has warned the Trump administration that intervening in memory-chip pricing or production capacity could worsen a historic supply...

Monday 6 July 2026
Phison says AI demand could erase NAND memory's boom-and-bust cycle
AI is reshaping the memory market in ways that could matter well beyond Taiwan and China, according to Phison Electronics founder and chief executive Pua Khein-Seng. He said growing...
Monday 6 July 2026
Micron breaks ground on Hiroshima expansion to boost AI memory chip production
Micron Technology has begun construction on an expansion of its existing semiconductor plant in Higashi-Hiroshima, western Japan, as part of a JPY1.5 trillion (approx. US$9.3 billion)...
Monday 6 July 2026
Analysis: AI supercycle could drive semiconductor market beyond US$2 trillion by 2030
The global semiconductor market is entering a historically significant growth phase. According to WSTS's latest June forecast, global semiconductor revenue is projected to grow by...
Monday 6 July 2026
ESMT revenue hits record high as DDR2 and DDR3 prices keep climbing
Elite Semiconductor Microelectronics Technology (ESMT), a memory IC design house, posted record monthly consolidated revenue of NT$4.85 billion (approx. US$152 million) in June 2026,...