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Friday 4 September 2026
SEMICON Taiwan 2026: QuantumDiamonds cracks the hybrid bonding blind spot with new inline metrology
TAIPEI, Taiwan — The global semiconductor industry is hitting a physical wall. As artificial intelligence demands push architectures toward three-dimensional packaging, high-bandwidth...
Friday 4 September 2026
China interconnect chipmaker Montage enters Samsung, SK Hynix CXL 3.2 supply chains and begins DDR6 development

Montage Technology is accelerating its move beyond traditional DDR memory interfaces, with CXL 3.2, DDR6 and PCIe products positioning the...

Friday 4 September 2026
Micron reportedly targets 2× HBM capacity by end-2026; Samsung, SK Hynix keep the scale edge
Micron is reportedly preparing to roughly double its high-bandwidth memory capacity by the end of 2026, targeting about 100,000 wafers a month while sharply increasing 12-high HBM4...
Friday 4 September 2026
Processor, memory boom could push chip supply chain out of sync, says Yole
Gary Huang, vice president and head of Asia-Pacific research and business development at Yole Group, said the imbalance is already showing signs of what he described as supply-chain...
Friday 4 September 2026
AI boom reshapes DRAM market as Samsung regains lead and CXMT gains ground

The global DRAM market continued its explosive expansion in the second quarter of 2026, as AI infrastructure spending drove demand for...

Friday 4 September 2026
Kioxia pitches flash as a DRAM substitute as Micron, YMTC close in
Kioxia's plan to push NAND flash into work that DRAM currently does is less a product launch than an answer to a structural problem. Alone among the leading memory makers, it does...
Friday 4 September 2026
Nanya, ESMT hit record August revenue on higher contract prices
Memory chip makers continue to post sequential revenue gains, with Nanya Technology and Elite Semiconductor Microelectronics Technology (ESMT) both reporting record consolidated revenue...
Thursday 3 September 2026
SanDisk pushes HBF ecosystem as AI inference reshapes token economics
The rapid rise of AI inference, multimodal inputs, and AI agents is giving NAND flash a new strategic role.
Thursday 3 September 2026
CXMT expands global hiring to Japan for DDR5, LPDDR technology upgrade

Chinese DRAM maker CXMT has launched its 2027 global recruitment campaign, opening roles across circuit design, R&D, mass-production...

Thursday 3 September 2026
SK Hynix weighs Kioxia production tie-up in Japan
SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won has raised the possibility of jointly producing semiconductors with Japan's Kioxia, taking SK Hynix's exploration of a Japanese manufacturing base a...
Thursday 3 September 2026
Intel pre-funds EMIB-T and CPU capacity, will address DRAM through partners rather than fabs
Intel's US$23 billion equity raise in August was pre-funding for a capacity build driven by demand and process confidence rather than distress, chief financial officer David Zinsner...
Thursday 3 September 2026
Apple, Xiaomi and Nvidia chase terabyte-class bandwidth for AI chips
For decades, semiconductor performance gains largely came from shrinking process nodes, from 22nm and 14nm to 7nm and 3nm. AI is changing the constraint: processors are getting faster,...
Thursday 3 September 2026
CXMT's 'Hefei Project' exposed in Samsung DRAM theft case
South Korean prosecutors allege that Chinese memory maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) set up an internal "Hefei Project" in 2016 to obtain Samsung Electronics' core DRAM technology...
Thursday 3 September 2026
Samsung to add 1,612 new equipment units at Vietnam chip plant
Samsung Electronics is set to install 1,612 brand-new critical semiconductor back-end processing tools manufactured in South Korea at its factory under construction in Vietnam's Thai...
Thursday 3 September 2026
Macronix boosts sustainability spending to NT$780 million
Macronix (MXIC) said in its latest sustainability report for 2025 that greenhouse gas emissions fell 19.8% from 2024 and 32% from the business-as-usual (BAU) baseline, beating its...