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Thursday 3 September 2026

CHPT spans wafer to system-level testing

Chunghwa Precision Test Tech showcased a range of test interface solutions for AI chips and high-performance computing (HPC) at SEMICON Taiwan 2026, including AI probe cards, memory...

Thursday 3 September 2026

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and NEC form alliance to advance defense tech, AI sovereignty

Japanese industrial giants Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and NEC Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to establish a strategic partnership in the defense...

Thursday 3 September 2026

Niching validates 500-ton press for large heat spreaders

Niching Industrial is expanding its heat-spreader capacity as AI and high-performance computing demand pushes up orders across the global semiconductor supply chain. The company said...

Thursday 3 September 2026

Semiconductor sustainability shifts to cost control as fab resource demand surges

Sustainability is not just good for communities and the environment but also good for business. This is the message from a sustainability...

Thursday 3 September 2026

Broadcom says CPO fits scale-out better than scale-up

Broadcom Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Core Switching Group Asad Khamisy said at the Semicon Taiwan 2026 master forum that co-packaged optics (CPO) is not necessarily...

Thursday 3 September 2026

CXMT expands global hiring to Japan for DDR5, LPDDR technology upgrade

Chinese DRAM maker CXMT has launched its 2027 global recruitment campaign, opening roles across circuit design, R&D, mass-production...

Thursday 3 September 2026

Taiwan LED packaging provider Ligitek pivots to silicon photonics; 1.6T modules eye 2H27 revenue

Ligitek is accelerating its move from LED packaging into silicon photonics (SiPh) and high-speed optical communications, with 1.6T product samples already tested and volume-production...

Thursday 3 September 2026

Zeiss deepens Taiwan bet as advanced chip packaging raises the stakes for inspection tools

Zeiss is expanding its Taiwan presence as artificial intelligence (AI) accelerates demand for smaller chips, vertical stacking, and 2.5D and 3D heterogeneous integration. The shift...

Thursday 3 September 2026

TSMC doubles down on equipment purchase as AI demand is outpacing semiconductor supply chain planning

TSMC says surging AI demand is stretching the global chip industry beyond its usual planning cycle, with fast-changing procurement needs, labor shortages, and infrastructure constraints...

Thursday 3 September 2026

SK Hynix weighs Kioxia production tie-up in Japan

SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won has raised the possibility of jointly producing semiconductors with Japan's Kioxia, taking SK Hynix's exploration of a Japanese manufacturing base a...

Thursday 3 September 2026

Taiwan's supply chain is 'one of a kind,' MediaTek CEO says

MediaTek CEO Rick Tsai said Taiwan's supply-chain capabilities are unmatched as the technology industry moves into the AI and robotics era, while joking that the chip designer will...

Thursday 3 September 2026

AUO unit eyes TSMC ecosystem as merger benefits emerge

AUO Group's AET Corporation (AET), formed in September 2025 through the merger of AUO Envirotech and AUO Digitech, is expanding across the semiconductor supply chain and has reportedly...

Thursday 3 September 2026

AI substrate shortages widen as Unimicron signals capacity support through 2029

Unimicron chairman SC Chien said the company is working to ease the tightening shortage of AI substrates as MediaTek seeks capacity support for the next three years, during a public...

Thursday 3 September 2026

CXMT's 'Hefei Project' exposed in Samsung DRAM theft case

South Korean prosecutors allege that Chinese memory maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) set up an internal "Hefei Project" in 2016 to obtain Samsung Electronics' core DRAM technology...

Thursday 3 September 2026

Google to expand Taipei AI infrastructure center as Taiwan ties deepen

Google will expand its AI infrastructure research and development center in Taipei's Shilin district, adding 60% more office space, as it deepens work with Taiwan's supply chain on...

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