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Monday 31 August 2026
Weekly news roundup: US pressures Korea chip investment, MediaTek wins Google TPU, Apple debuts 2nm M6
Semiconductor investment, AI chips, advanced packaging and data center infrastructure dominated the week, with South Korea facing US pressure, India scaling chip manufacturing, and...
Monday 31 August 2026
India roundup: India broadens semiconductor and AI ambitions across manufacturing, design, materials and data centers
India's semiconductor ambitions are expanding from packaging and testing to chip design, materials, mobile devices and data centers. New investments by CG Power, Infineon, Foxconn,...
Monday 31 August 2026
Podcast highlights: Xiaomi's 3nm chip cap, HBM in Malaysia, and Nvidia's margin tradeoff
Can Xiaomi's in-house chip reach 2nm? Is HBM rerouting to Malaysia TSMC giving Intel a pass? Can Nvidia hold a 75% gross margin or protect market share? Ahead of Apple's September...
Monday 31 August 2026
Tex Year's specialty chemicals push could reshape its growth mix as AI and optics expand
Tex Year is widening its specialty chemicals business beyond LCDs and electronics into AI servers, in-vehicle electronics, Mini LED, and optical lenses, while also targeting optical...
Saturday 29 August 2026
Samsung bets on JWMT: can glass substrates flip the script for South Korea in advanced packaging?
As artificial intelligence (AI) chips continue to scale up in physical size, semiconductor competition is rapidly extending beyond front-end node scaling into advanced packaging. The...
Friday 28 August 2026
AI packaging race heats up: Taiwan OSATs plan US$14.6 billion capex

The AI investment cycle is spreading from leading-edge wafer fabrication into semiconductor packaging and testing, with Taiwan's largest...

Friday 28 August 2026
Samsung eyes zHBM products from 2029 as heat remains key hurdle
Samsung Electronics expects products based on its first-generation zHBM specifications to appear in 2029 or later, giving the 3D memory concept unveiled earlier this month an initial...
Friday 28 August 2026
Samsung diverges from TSMC on FOPLP: retains 415×510mm panel size, targets 2028 mass production
Samsung Electronics' packaging technology lead, Lee Hee-seok, outlined the company's advanced semiconductor packaging roadmap at Advanced Semiconductor Packaging & Chiplet Show...
Friday 28 August 2026
Exclusive: IC design faces wire bonding bottleneck in 2027
Surging AI chip demand continues to outstrip TSMC's advanced packaging capacity. At the same time, massive AI server shipments are driving up demand for CPUs, networking equipment,...
Friday 28 August 2026
SK Hynix breaks ground on US$4 billion Indiana plant that will package, not make, HBM
SK hynix broke ground on August 27 on a US$4 billion advanced packaging plant in Purdue Research Park, its first US high-bandwidth memory (HBM) site.
Thursday 27 August 2026
HBM hybrid bonding delayed by 300°C heat and CMP dishing
As high-bandwidth memory (HBM) stack counts continue to rise, the industry originally anticipated that hybrid bonding (HB), a next-generation packaging solution, would be officially...
Thursday 27 August 2026
SK Hynix questions PIM as thermal, packaging limits constrain HBM
South Korean memory rivals Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are taking fundamentally different routes to solve HBM performance bottlenecks. While Samsung frames processing-in-memory...
Thursday 27 August 2026
AMD, Broadcom book most of Powertech's FOPLP capacity ahead of 2027 ramp
Powertech Technology (PTI) is preparing to move its fan-out panel-level packaging (FOPLP) technology into mass production by mid-2027. AMD and Broadcom are backing demand, and most...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Google, MediaTek embrace advanced packaging diversification
Google and MediaTek are moving toward advanced packaging diversification, as Intel's embedded multi-die interconnect bridge (EMIB) gains traction after Google's TPU was confirmed to...
Thursday 27 August 2026
India's CG Power targets 70% utilization at larger semiconductor packaging plant
CG Power and Industrial Solutions is targeting 70% utilization at its larger semiconductor packaging facility within about four years, with the unit potentially generating around US$500...