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Wednesday 4 November 2026
Explosion at Panasonic CCL plant in Taiwan injures five, two missing
Panasonic Industrial Devices Materials Taiwan's Hukou plant experienced an explosion and fire early on November 4, injuring five employees and leaving two others unaccounted for. The...
Wednesday 4 November 2026
High-speed optical communications drive demand for mSAP competition among Taiwan PCB makers
As AI computing clusters continue to expand, data centers are demanding higher transmission speeds and greater bandwidth. To overcome the manufacturing bottlenecks of traditional high-density...
Wednesday 4 November 2026
Huawei's Hubble builds AI optics supply chain through minority stakes in 22 companies
AI data centers are increasing demand for high-speed optical communications, making optoelectronics supply chains increasingly strategic. Marvell's announced acquisition of Lumentum...
Wednesday 4 November 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics' long-term deals top KRW5 trillion
Samsung Electro-Mechanics (Semco) has disclosed more than KRW5 trillion in long-term supply agreements (LTAs) this year after signing another AI server capacitor contract. The company...
Tuesday 3 November 2026
Panasonic Industry to invest JPY92 billion in AI-related circuit board materials and capacitors
Panasonic Industry, the electronic components subsidiary of Panasonic Group, plans to invest approximately JPY92 billion (approx. US$582.8 million) in its AI-related businesses to...
Tuesday 3 November 2026
AI demand, resin shock stretch India PCB shortage into 2027
The printed circuit board (PCB) shortage that Indian electronics makers expect to worsen in the coming months is part of a global squeeze. AI servers are absorbing high-end laminate,...
Tuesday 3 November 2026
MediaTek, Marvell, Broadcom battle for ASIC supply through 2028
Competition in the AI application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) market will extend beyond 2028, industry sources said, with MediaTek, Broadcom, and Marvell competing not only...
Tuesday 3 November 2026
SK Hynix ramps up SOCAMM2 as material shortages push up PCB prices
SK Hynix is increasing orders for small outline compression attached memory module 2 (SOCAMM2) printed circuit boards (PCBs) as production ramps up for Nvidia's Vera Rubin AI platform,...
Tuesday 3 November 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics starts mass production of ADAS MLCCs
Samsung Electro-Mechanics (Semco) has begun mass production of a miniature, ultra-high-capacitance multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS),...
Monday 2 November 2026
Murata to invest JPY1 trillion in expanding MLCC capacity across Asia plants
Murata Manufacturing announced plans to invest around JPY1 trillion (US$6.3 billion) in expanding multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) capacity by 2030. Booming demand from data centers...
Monday 2 November 2026
AI data center demand fuels THEIL's optical communications rebound, 4Q26 to buck seasonal downtrend
Tong Hsing Electronic Industries (THEIL) outlined the latest developments and market trends across its four major product lines of optical communications, ceramic substrates, new semiconductor...
Monday 2 November 2026
Exclusive: Metal adhesion poses challenge for aluminum nitride in AI optics
As AI and large-scale data center buildouts drive up data transmission speeds, heat is becoming increasingly concentrated in key components. This has drawn attention to ceramic substrates...
Monday 2 November 2026
Lite-On reports record third-quarter profit as AI revenue exceeds 30%
Lite-On Technology reported record net profit for the third quarter of 2026 as demand for AI infrastructure boosted its cloud and power businesses. The Taiwanese electronics supplier...
Monday 2 November 2026
Nytex targets 35% of sales from high-end materials by 2027
Nytex Composites, a Taiwan-based specialty plastics compounder, aims to increase high-end materials' share of revenue to 35% in 2027, up from 25.76% in the first half of 2026, as demand...
Sunday 1 November 2026
The 20% problem: why Taiwan's imported equipment parts still carry 70% of the cost
Taiwan can manufacture some of the world's most advanced chips, package them into increasingly complex AI systems, and connect much of the surrounding electronics supply chain within...