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Wednesday 2 September 2026
Micron says tightly coupled DRAM could deliver more than 10x HBM bandwidth
Micron Technology is exploring tightly coupled DRAM that could deliver more than 10 times the bandwidth of HBM while using substantially less energy per bit, as the memory maker looks...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
DRAM giants target 3D stacking to break memory wall and power bottlenecks
At a shared stage at Semicon Taiwan 2026, executives from Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron agreed that traditional 2.5D high-bandwidth memory (HBM) using interposers is approaching...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
World's first legged robot standard sets global benchmark for humanoids, robot dogs
China-led experts have released what CCTV described as the world's first international standard for legged robots, creating a common framework for evaluating humanoid robots,...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Indium CEO: packaging, cooling and power are next AI bottlenecks
As AI and high-performance computing (HPC) continue to drive semiconductor advances, industry competition is shifting beyond chip performance toward packaging, cooling, assembly, and...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
MediaTek pushes advanced packaging and supply chain to keep pace with AI
Speaking at the 3DIC Global Summit at SEMICON Taiwan 2026, MediaTek general manager T.Y. Lau revealed the publicly disclosed cost structure of the B200 accelerator, saying that after...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Apple's M6 and M5 Ultra break rule tying process to chip strength
Apple has unveiled new Mac mini and Mac Studio models, equipped respectively with its first 2-nanometer chip, the M6, and the four-die M5 Ultra. Most notably, the latest 2-nanometer...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
SK Hynix touts up to 5.15x inference gains with custom HBM

SK Hynix is pushing computation deeper into high-bandwidth memory (HBM), saying a custom HBM architecture that places compute functions...

Tuesday 1 September 2026
Samsung eyes early 2027 LPDDR5X-PIM production, touts 3.8x performance gain
Samsung Electronics is targeting mass production of its LPDDR5X processing-in-memory (PIM) solution in late 2026 or early 2027, moving the technology closer to commercialization as...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
ASML says High NA EUV has reached its first high-volume logic product
ASML told a SEMICON Taiwan audience that its High NA EUV platform has been used for a high-volume logic product for the first time, a threshold the company frames as the point at which...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Rising Packaging Complexity Elevates Glass in Semiconductor Manufacturing

As transistor scaling becomes more difficult and costly, advanced packaging has become one of the most important paths for extending Moore's Law. Technologies such as...

Tuesday 1 September 2026
Samsung weighs HBM4 bonuses as memory, foundry teams align
Samsung Electronics is using a cross-division "One Team" model to develop its sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory, HBM4, but the approach is creating a new challenge for the newly...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
OpenAI compresses Jalapeno design to 9 months
OpenAI unveiled performance results for its in-house AI chip Jalapeno at Hot Chips 2026 ahead of Nvidia's latest earnings report, underscoring not whether it can beat GB200 or GB300,...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
SK Hynix explores Intel as second source for HBM base dies
SK Hynix is reportedly considering adding Intel Foundry as a second manufacturing source for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) base dies, a move that could reduce its reliance on TSMC as...
Monday 31 August 2026
Cook made sustainability an Apple feature; the ledger he leaves John Ternus is mixed
Tim Cook's most durable non-financial decision was to treat environmental and social performance as product attributes rather than corporate disclosure. It worked well enough that...
Friday 28 August 2026
Apple's M6 marks a transitional step before wider 2nm adoption
Apple on August 25 unveiled the M6 and M5 Ultra chips without holding a launch event, with the M6 becoming the company's first processor built on TSMC's 2nm process and debuting in...