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Friday 15 May 2026
Taiwan industry maintains support for non-China supply chain push despite drone budget setback
Taiwan's legislature recently passed the final version of a special defense budget totaling NT$780 billion (approx. US$24.75 billion), but drone-related funding was not approved. The...
Friday 15 May 2026
Metalens technology reaches key turning point, as DUV, DLW, NIL processes compete for advantage
Metalens technology is now moving from proofs-of-concept toward targeted applications in smart glasses and machine vision, as its extreme thinness makes it well-suited for use cases...
Friday 15 May 2026
Trump-Xi summit is Nvidia's best shot at getting back into China
US President Donald Trump's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing this week has put Nvidia's stalled H200 sales in China back in focus, as Washington's export approvals...
Friday 15 May 2026
Nvidia H200 sales to China stall despite US approval
The US has cleared around 10 Chinese companies to buy Nvidia's H200 artificial intelligence chips, but no deliveries have been made, suggesting that Washington's approval alone may...
Friday 15 May 2026
Lei Jun, Musk and Cook converge at China-US state dinner
At a state dinner on the evening of May 14 during the China-US summit, Chinese and global tech leaders mingled on stage, with Xiaomi chairman and CEO Lei Jun photographed taking a...
Friday 15 May 2026
UMC rolls out 14nm FinFET platform for OLED driver ICs
United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) has released a 14nm embedded high-voltage (eHV) FinFET technology platform for display driver ICs, marking a new step in the foundry's process roadmap...
Friday 15 May 2026
Applied Materials scales manufacturing and innovation to meet AI demand
Following record second-quarter 2026 financial results, Applied Materials has detailed an extensive strategy to scale its global manufacturing capacity and accelerate technology commercialization...
Friday 15 May 2026
Hua Hong Semiconductor strategy focuses on AI demand and specialty tech expansion
Hua Hong Semiconductor is positioning itself to capitalize on the accelerating transformation of the global semiconductor industry, driven primarily by the "unmistakably positive impact...
Friday 15 May 2026
InP compound semiconductors break AI power and bandwidth barriers
Indium phosphide (InP) and other compound semiconductors are taking on a bigger role as demand rises for highly efficient light emission and ultra-high-frequency transmission. Their...
Friday 15 May 2026
Etron chair warns of US-South Korea alliance threatening Taiwan's chip industry
Memory industry profits have surged, and Samsung Electronics recently posted earnings that exceeded TSMC's revenue for the first quarter of 2026, underscoring memory's rise as a strategic...
Thursday 14 May 2026
QBit Semiconductor targets edge AI growth as copier chips turn oligopolistic
IC design firm QBit Semiconductor will list on the Emerging Stock Board on May 15, 2026, and chairman Simon Shen, a former Kinpo executive, said the debut marks a new milestone for...
Thursday 14 May 2026
TSMC symposium spotlights AI expansion, advanced packaging demand
TSMC held its annual technology symposium in Hsinchu on May 14, 2026, after its North America stop, with executives noting that AI applications are rapidly expanding from cloud data...
Thursday 14 May 2026
China's fiber optic industry evolved from catch-up to supply chain scale
As demand for AI data centers, high-speed transmission, and cloud infrastructure continues to rise, the fiber-optic industry has once again become a focal point in the global market,...
Thursday 14 May 2026
Samsung reportedly speeds up 3D NAND, packaging, and substrate plans
Samsung Electronics is reportedly reviving delayed semiconductor initiatives across next-generation NAND flash, compound semiconductors, advanced packaging, and substrates —...
Thursday 14 May 2026
Etron's robotics bets gain ground as memory cycle turns
Etron Technology is seeing momentum extend beyond its core memory business, as subsidiaries built over the past several years begin to bear fruit in robotics, edge computing, and privacy-focused...