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Tuesday 17 March 2026
HBM showdown at GTC 2026: SK Hynix, Samsung and Micron battle for AI memory supremacy
The 2026 NVIDIA Global Technology Conference (GTC) has transcended its origins as a developer forum to become the ultimate proving ground for the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) indust...
Tuesday 17 March 2026
Nvidia GTC 2026: Jensen Huang projects US$1 trillion inference market, LPU chip to be made by Samsung
As generative AI advances into the inference and agentic AI stages, global demand for AI computing power is entering a new surge. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang outlined during his keynote...
Tuesday 17 March 2026
Samsung Electronics reports shifts in raw material costs and production output in fiscal 2025
Samsung Electronics has released comprehensive operational data for fiscal 2025, revealing a complex picture of shifting raw material costs and high production efficiency. Despite...
Tuesday 17 March 2026
Samsung cautious on memory expansion amid concerns over 2028 supply glut
Samsung Electronics' semiconductor division is concerned that the current memory supercycle, driven by supply shortages, could last only one to two years before the market turns downward...
Tuesday 17 March 2026
Micron enters high-volume production of HBM4 and PCIe Gen6 SSDs for Nvidia platforms
At the Nvidia GTC 2026 conference, Micron Technology signaled a major push in the AI hardware race, announcing high-volume production of memory and storage components purpose-built...
Tuesday 17 March 2026
AI-related impact on gaming industry goes beyond memory chip shortage
As demand for memory chips in AI data centers continues to surge, the global "RAMaggedon" has now claimed another unwitting victim: the gaming industry. The sector is now feeling the...
Tuesday 17 March 2026
eMMC shortage sends NAND prices soaring, with further gains ahead
Supply disruptions in low-capacity eMMC are driving sharp price increases for SLC and MLC NAND as major global memory manufacturers exit older production nodes. Contract prices for...
Tuesday 17 March 2026
Nvidia GTC 2026: Samsung unveils HBM4E, showcasing comprehensive AI solutions, Nvidia partnership, and vision
Samsung Electronics outlined the full range of AI computing technologies it will present at Nvidia GTC 2026 in San Jose, California, March 16-19, highlighting memory, logic, foundry,...
Tuesday 17 March 2026
Memory supply chain defies seasonality with contract price hikes in 1Q26
Despite a short-term market adjustment and price softening before the Lunar New Year holidays, the memory sector saw contract price increases significantly reflected in first quarter...
Tuesday 17 March 2026
SK Hynix dethrones Samsung as South Korea's most desired employer
South Korea's largest job platform Saramin has named SK Hynix the top "most desired large company" for the first time, displacing perennial leader Samsung Electronics. The shift reflects...
Tuesday 17 March 2026
WPG expects memory shortage to ease by 2027 as AI drives nearly half of computing products
As AI boosts demand for computing power, IC distributor WPG Holdings reports a significant rise in the share of computing products, which have become its main revenue driver. However,...
Monday 16 March 2026
ESMT sees DDR3 contract prices increase as supply tightens
Memory design IC company Elite Semiconductor Microelectronics Technology (ESMT) reported a fourth-quarter 2025 profit of NT$1.033 billion (US$32.5 million), up 394.75% year-on-year...
Monday 16 March 2026
DRAM prices surge 180% as HBM competition shifts to profitability
DRAM and NAND flash prices have soared by as much as 180% since the Lunar New Year, amid worsening memory chip supply shortages that are expected to persist at least until late 2027...
Monday 16 March 2026
IC design houses push 12-inch chips as 8-inch process price hikes loom
The chip market is facing a wave of price increases, with IDM companies issuing hike notices and foundries preparing to raise prices for the 8-inch wafer process amid current supply-demand...
Monday 16 March 2026
Weekly news roundup: Memory crunch, AI supply chains, new manufacturing hubs
Below are the most-read DIGITIMES stories from the week of Mar 9-15, 2026: