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Tuesday 21 April 2026

Middle East transshipment and supply chain shifts double SE Asia freight rates

Given the US-China trade war, many Taiwanese businesses and Chinese manufacturers relocated production lines to Southeast Asia, boosting shipment demand from the region. Now, escalating...

Tuesday 21 April 2026

APAC advances CPO positioning: ELSFP beings small-volume shipments, in-house COC line set for 3Q26 completion

Optical communications company APAC Opto Electronics reported that its inventory digestion phase is nearing completion, with market demand showing a clear rebound. Looking ahead to...

Tuesday 21 April 2026

Mercedes-Benz taps Samsung SDI for first-ever EV battery partnership

Samsung SDI has signed a multi-year agreement to supply electric vehicle (EV) batteries to Mercedes-Benz, marking its first confirmed entry...

Tuesday 21 April 2026

Samsung's HBM4 yield improves, 4nm PMBIST upgrade receives praise from Nvidia

Samsung Electronics is accelerating its catch-up in the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) market against leader SK Hynix by advancing its sixth-generation HBM4. A key factor is Samsung's...

Tuesday 21 April 2026

Foxconn Industrial Internet to mass-produce CPO all-optical switches in 3Q26 with over 10,000 units target

Brand Cheng, chairman of Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII), a cloud networking business under Foxconn, recently announced ongoing advancements in technologies, including co-packaged...

Monday 20 April 2026

Solar power: the new front in G2 tech rivalry

As China weighs restrictions on exporting heterojunction (HJT) solar equipment to the United States — partly to blunt Elon Musk's space ambitions — a new chapter in the...

Monday 20 April 2026

Analysis: How TSMC avoids memory's boom-and-bust cycle

Ahead of TSMC's earnings call, DIGITIMES senior analyst Luke Lin explained that TSMC typically does not revise its full-year revenue forecast or capital expenditure during...

Monday 20 April 2026

South Korea's DeepX moves DX-M1 AI chip into mass production; builds up inventory to address supply constraints

South Korean AI semiconductor startup DeepX has entered mass production and supply for its in-house neural processing unit (NPU), the DX-M1, as it seeks to scale revenue amid tightening...

Monday 20 April 2026

Wooptix advances testing and production capabilities in targeting entry into leading foundries by 2028

Spanish optical inspection startup Wooptix officially unveiled its first inspection system, Phemet, in November 2025. The company stated that its first-generation prototype has already...

Monday 20 April 2026

SDC's 8.6-gen OLED approaches 90% yield, expected to supply 2 million panels to Apple in 2026

According to industry sources cited by The Elec, Samsung Display's (SDC) 8.6G OLED line has recently surpassed an 85% yield rate, approaching the industry's "golden yield"...

Monday 20 April 2026

SOCAMM2 race intensifies as SK Hynix starts mass production, while Micron and Samsung push competing designs

SK Hynix has begun mass production of its 192GB SOCAMM2 memory module, marking a major step in the commercialization of next-generation low-power server DRAM designed for AI workloads,...

Monday 20 April 2026

Samsung reportedly signals exit from LPDDR4 market as memory industry shifts toward LPDDR5

Memory makers are accelerating the phase-out of older mobile DRAM generations, with policies on LPDDR4 and DDR4 increasingly converging toward end-of-life (EOL) management as the industry...

Monday 20 April 2026

Samsung tests domestic EUV masks to cut Japan reliance at 4nm

Samsung Electronics has begun testing domestic EUV blank masks in its 4nm foundry production line, a shift aimed at cutting reliance on...

Monday 20 April 2026

Weekly news roundup: Samsung launches voluntary retirement; Qualcomm moves into custom DRAM with CXMT

Below are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from the week of April 13-19, 2026:

Monday 20 April 2026

As 2D NAND fades, UMC faces steep hurdles to enter a shrinking market

The global retreat from 2D NAND flash production is no longer a possibility but an emerging certainty. As major memory makers exit the segment,...

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