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Monday 14 September 2026
Gritek to take full control of 12-inch silicon wafer venture in major restructuring
Gritek plans to strengthen its position in China's large-diameter silicon wafer market by acquiring the remaining stakes in two semiconductor materials companies, according to a company...
Monday 14 September 2026
Google TPU pays back investment in 1 year, creating upside for MediaTek, Broadcom ASIC revenues

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian recently revealed that Google's overall payback period for AI server investments is less than two years,...

Monday 14 September 2026
US finalizes anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on solar imports from India, Indonesia, and Laos
The US Commerce Department on September 11 issued final affirmative determinations in its anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells...
Monday 14 September 2026
Scaling Photonics: Assembly, Test and Fiber Automation at SEMICON Taiwan

As AI continues to accelerate demand for high-speed optical connectivity, technologies such as silicon photonics, CPO, LPO, NPO and OCS are moving rapidly toward commercial...

Friday 11 September 2026
ficonTEC breaks CPO test bottleneck, teams with Hermes Testing
German silicon photonics (SiPh) test equipment maker ficonTEC has broken through a major bottleneck in co-packaged optics (CPO) "electrical-in, optical-out" testing and launched what...
Friday 11 September 2026
CPO startup Ayar Labs raises 2026 funding to US$650 million, adds Wiwynn as investor

Ayar Labs, a co-packaged optics (CPO) startup, has raised an additional US$150 million, bringing the primary capital it has raised so...

Friday 11 September 2026
China's DRAM supply chain clears another materials hurdle
China's semiconductor localisation effort has reached another upstream materials milestone.​ Jiangsu Pacific Quartz Co. has secured qualification for high-purity quartz products...
Friday 11 September 2026
CIOE 2026: Hitachi relies on partnerships, not proprietary tech, to ride China's optical boom

At an optoelectronics trade expo in China, Hitachi High-Tech used its booth not to unveil a flagship product of its own, but to showcase...

Friday 11 September 2026
AI packaging turns to glass, with TGV metallisation persisting as key technical hurdle
Taiwan supply-chain sources said low-CTE glass fibre cloth used in high-end substrates remains tight, while glass-core substrates for next-generation packaging are still in technical...
Friday 11 September 2026
Jensen Huang bets Nvidia's next leg of growth on turning AI compute into an investable asset

Jensen Huang used a Goldman Sachs conference appearance to argue that the constraints on AI's build-out are expanding from silicon into...

Friday 11 September 2026
More memory won't fix AI's bottleneck, says Microsoft's Azure hardware chief
Microsoft's AI accelerator was never designed to compete with Nvidia. It was designed to run Microsoft's own inference workloads across its own fleet, and that scoping decision —...
Thursday 10 September 2026
ITRI to showcase 3.2T silicon photonics and AI data center cooling
Taiwan's 2026 Innovation Technology Expo will run from September 17 to 19 at Taipei World Trade Center Hall 1. The Ministry of Economic Affairs Industrial Development Administration...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Hermes Testing ships membrane probe cards, targets SiPh and CPO
Hermes Testing Solutions said its August revenue kept rising and topped NT$500 million for the first time, setting a new monthly record on steady growth in semiconductor test equipment...
Thursday 10 September 2026
DB HiTek completes reliability qualification for 8-inch SiC MOSFET process
DB HiTek said it has completed reliability qualification for its 1,200 V silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET process on 8-inch wafers. The development could expand foundry capacity for next-generation...
Thursday 10 September 2026
Apple's A20 Pro pushes mobile chips into the 2nm era — but AI may be the bigger disruption

For years, smartphone processors have competed through a familiar formula: faster CPUs, stronger graphics, and increasingly smaller...