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Wednesday 6 May 2026
'Chipflation' hits Samsung, boosts Apple results
As soaring memory prices fuel "chipflation," Samsung Electronics and Apple are taking sharply different approaches. Samsung's Mobile eXperience (MX) division is trying to protect profitability...
Wednesday 6 May 2026
Memory supply gap stretches beyond 2028 as cloud capex tops US$725 billion
Global cloud service providers have recently raised capital spending to about US$725 billion, accelerating the shift of memory resources toward AI and prompting suppliers and customers...
Wednesday 6 May 2026
Winbond beats full-year 2025 profit in 1Q26 with memory capacity fully loaded
Winbond Electronics posted strong first-quarter 2026 results, with consolidated revenue totaling NT$38.25 billion (approx. US$1.21 billion), up 43.7% from the previous quarter and...
Wednesday 6 May 2026
RichWave sees Wi-Fi 7 growth outrunning memory price pressure
Radio frequency (RF) front-end chip maker RichWave said on May 4 that Wi-Fi 7 momentum will remain very strong in the first quarter of 2026, even as rising memory and component costs...
Wednesday 6 May 2026
iPhone 17 topples charts as memory costs threaten midrange Android momentum
Apple and Samsung led the global smartphone market in the first quarter of 2026 as premium demand helped them buck broader shipment declines, industry data showed. According to Counterpoint,...
Wednesday 6 May 2026
Transcend reports record April revenue as memory shortage drives prices higher
Transcend Information posted consolidated revenue of NT$7.449 billion (roughly $235 million USD) in April 2026, marking its strongest month on record—nearly six times higher...
Wednesday 6 May 2026
TV panel prices stall as China cuts output to defend prices
The LCD TV panel market has shifted sharply from aggressive stocking to defensive procurement as global sports-event demand fades, pre-stocking cycles for China's 618 shopping festival...
Wednesday 6 May 2026
SoftBank, Intel target HBM limits with 9-layer memory
SoftBank's memory unit SAIMEMORY is preparing to present a new 3D DRAM technology developed with Intel, as the AI hardware industry seeks ways to ease the power and heat constraints...
Tuesday 5 May 2026
South Korea eyes memory-led AI order against Nvidia
As AI shifts from training to inference and from single-task use to multi-agent collaboration, South Korea's semiconductor industry is seeking to recast the market around memory rather...
Tuesday 5 May 2026
SEMICON SEA 2026: the trillion-dollar chip era is already here
The global semiconductor industry is entering a "multi-trillion-dollar" growth cycle sooner than expected, SEMI President and CEO Ajit Manocha said, urging Southeast Asian countries...
Tuesday 5 May 2026
Nanya Technology's April revenue soars, driven by strong ASP outlook and accelerated expansion efforts
Nanya Technology reported consolidated revenue of NT$25.49 billion (approx. US$805.3 million) for April 2026, surging 717.33% from NT$3.12 billion a year earlier and 40.29% from March,...
Tuesday 5 May 2026
DDR6 server memory moves into early development as industry prepares for next-generation AI demand
The development of next-generation server memory DDR6 is reportedly entering early hardware validation, as memory makers and supply chain partners begin pre-development work ahead...
Tuesday 5 May 2026
Memory price hikes push smartphone shipments down more sharply than notebooks
Rising memory prices have squeezed handset demand and are expected to widen the gap between smartphone and notebook shipment declines in 2026, according to industry reports. Global...
Tuesday 5 May 2026
SK Hynix disputes report on M15X memory investment shift

SK Hynix disputed reports that it is considering shifting DRAM investment at its new M15X memory production base in Cheongju, South Korea,...

Tuesday 5 May 2026
Kioxia, SanDisk to unveil 3D flash architecture targeting 1,000-layer milestone
Kioxia and SanDisk are set to present a new 3D flash memory architecture aimed at extending NAND scaling beyond 1,000 stacked layers, as memory makers seek ways to overcome the physical...