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Friday 4 September 2026
CPO testing shifts to mid-stage to avoid costly failures, Chroma says

Co-packaged optics (CPO) is forcing chipmakers and equipment suppliers to rethink where testing should take place, as long optical test...

Friday 4 September 2026
TSMC urges HBM makers to design for X-ray inspection as packaging grows more complex
TSMC is calling for future HBM and DRAM designs to become more compatible with X-ray inspection, as increasingly complex advanced packaging makes buried defects harder to detect while...
Friday 4 September 2026
From chips to physical AI: Experts urge Taiwan-US push for trusted drone supply chains at Semicon Taiwan 2026
Trustworthy supply chain concerns are extending beyond semiconductors to drones and other autonomous systems, now emerging as national strategic industries. At a Semicon Taiwan 2026...
Friday 4 September 2026
The 'Copper Wall': inside the physical bottlenecks threatening to melt AI supercomputing boom
A decade ago, when Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was developing the world's first NVLink-enabled deep learning system, the DGX-1, the tech industry was deeply skeptical about the future...
Friday 4 September 2026
How agentic AI and 'AI physics' are reshaping chip design
As semiconductor designs advance toward trillion-transistor packages, the traditional engineering playbook of simply adding more personnel or running legacy software faster has hit...
Friday 4 September 2026
Trusval Technology eyes NT$23 billion order backlog, US 4Q26 ramp
Trusval Technology is riding AI- and high-performance computing-driven semiconductor expansion overseas, but Taiwan's fab engineering firms face tougher labor shortages, regulations,...
Friday 4 September 2026
SEMICON Taiwan 2026: QuantumDiamonds cracks the hybrid bonding blind spot with new inline metrology
The global semiconductor industry is hitting a physical wall. As artificial intelligence demands push architectures toward three-dimensional packaging, high-bandwidth memory (HBM)...
Friday 4 September 2026
CPO high-density optical interconnects drive E&R's submicron 2D FAU breakthrough
To meet next-generation high-speed optical interconnect demand, fiber array units (FAU) are moving from traditional one-dimensional layouts to high-density two-dimensional (2D) architectures,...
Friday 4 September 2026
Ennostar accelerates AI optical communications with micro LED
Ennostar is pushing into AI high-speed optical communications and says Taiwan's full supply-chain ecosystem could bring micro LED into commercial use sooner than expected. Andrew Tsai,...
Friday 4 September 2026
Fujitsu says useful quantum computers may need far fewer qubits than expected
For years the quantum industry has worked on a discouraging assumption: that a machine capable of doing anything commercially useful would need a million qubits or more. Fujitsu told...
Friday 4 September 2026
China Motor unit Greentrans launches Taiwan-made quadruped robots
China Motor Corp. subsidiary Greentrans unveiled its next-generation quadruped robots, GT5X and GT3X, at SEMICON Taiwan 2026 amid growing demand for AI applications, smart semiconductor...
Friday 4 September 2026
Silicon Valley overflow fuels semiconductor boom in California's Capital Region
A surge of multibillion-dollar industrial expansions is quietly transforming California's capital region into a premier domestic semiconductor and advanced technology powerhouse, positioning...
Friday 4 September 2026
Chip leaders call for end to 'silo mentality' as AI scale-up demands cross-industry collab
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence is forcing a radical shift from individual chip design to holistic system-level engineering, requiring competitors and supply chain partners...
Friday 4 September 2026
D-Wave, quantum computing's oldest company, is now building a second kind of machine
D-Wave has spent 26 years building one type of quantum computer. This week it told a Taipei audience why it started building another.
Friday 4 September 2026
ENE Technology eyes 4Q26 drone scale-up with satellite link
Microcontroller maker ENE Technology is pushing into the drone market by integrating resources from other group companies and selling complete drone systems. The company expects volume...