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Thursday 13 August 2026
LandMark Optoelectronics posts surge in profit on silicon photonics demand
LandMark Optoelectronics Corp. reported a sharp jump in revenue, margins, and profit in the second quarter of 2026, driven by strong demand for silicon photonics products and higher...
Thursday 13 August 2026
409.6T switches could push industry toward CPO, Arista says
Co-packaged optics (CPO) has become a major focus of the optical networking industry, but pluggable modules remain the mainstream choice for optical interconnects. At a silicon photonics...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Yangtze Memory-backed capital expands into FD-SOI specialty process investment

Changcun Capital, the investment arm backed by Yangtze Memory Technologies Co., has completed a strategic investment in RuiLiPingxin...

Thursday 13 August 2026
Can diamond rewrite the rules of AI chip cooling? Wiwynn is putting it to the test
As AI processors become more powerful, one of the industry's most stubborn constraints is becoming increasingly physical: there is only so much heat conventional materials can move...
Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: Microsoft leans on Taiwan supply chain for 'silicon-to-systems' AI buildout

Microsoft sources roughly 70% of the hardware content in its cloud infrastructure from Taiwan and the wider Asia-Pacific region, executives...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: ASE unveils AI packaging trilogy

Demand for AI infrastructure is forcing chipmakers and data-center operators to rethink how systems are built, with implications for...

Tuesday 11 August 2026
China silicon wafer expansion accelerates: Eswin scales 12-inch capacity, Lion Micro consolidates 6- and 8-inch assets

China's silicon wafer industry is entering a new phase of simultaneous capacity expansion and consolidation, with Xi'an Eswin Material...

Tuesday 11 August 2026
TSMC affiliate VisEra scales AI optics with 1.6T silicon photonics
VisEra, the TSMC-affiliated optical components supplier, is expanding into AI optical interconnects and silicon photonics, with its MicroLens products for 800G pluggable transceivers...
Monday 10 August 2026
Semiconductor material prices surge across silicon wafers, specialty gases and advanced packaging
Demand for advanced processes and packaging continues to rise, while the Middle East conflict is lifting energy and raw-material costs and tighter Chinese controls on strategic-mineral...
Friday 7 August 2026
AMD to buy Taalas in push for faster AI inference chips

AMD said on August 6 that it has agreed to buy Taalas, a Toronto-based startup focused on specialized AI inference silicon, in a move...

Thursday 6 August 2026
GlobalFoundries 2Q analysis 2/2: US subsidies, Taiwan rhetoric and GF's silicon photonics test
GlobalFoundries (GF) often presents itself as an essential pillar of US semiconductor sovereignty. That claim is partly true, but requires qualification.
Thursday 6 August 2026
Anthropic builds in-house chip design team, signaling AI firms' turn to custom silicon

Anthropic is building an in-house team to design custom chips for its Claude AI models, according to Reuters, moving ahead...

Thursday 6 August 2026
FOPLP leads production as CoPoS advances glass packaging
AI chip computing power is rising rapidly, pushing advanced packaging toward larger form factors, higher bandwidth, and greater integration. Traditional Ajinomoto build-up film (ABF)...
Wednesday 5 August 2026
South Korea's KRW500B SiC push stalls as low returns deter major companies

South Korea's planned KRW500 billion(US$349,398) research and development initiative for silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors...

Tuesday 4 August 2026
Onsemi details AI data center momentum, pricing strategy in Q2 earnings call

Onsemi's leadership fielded a wide range of investor questions following the company's second-quarter 2026 results, with much of the...