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Wednesday 5 August 2026

From factories to consumers: Samsung's long retreat from China enters its final chapters

Samsung Electronics' latest move to scale back its smartphone retail network in China marks another milestone in a years-long restructuring...

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...

Wednesday 5 August 2026

From chip to grid: OCP CEO George Tchaparian on redefining data center architecture for the AI era

Ahead of the OCP APAC Summit in Taipei, George Tchaparian says co-packaged optics (CPO) gives Taiwan an opportunity to turn its manufacturing and packaging expertise into global...

Tuesday 4 August 2026

SK Hynix, Sandisk release first HBF specs with up to 512GB and 3TB/s bandwidth

SK Hynix and Sandisk released the first standard specifications for High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) on August 4, defining a NAND-based memory technology with a capacity of up to 512GB and...

Tuesday 4 August 2026

Nvidia RTX 50 graphics card prices climb as TSMC and memory costs rise

Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 series graphics card prices in South Korea were set to rise by as much as 30% starting in August 2026 as higher wafer costs at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing...

Tuesday 4 August 2026

Samsung Foundry nears full utilization, but 2nm yields remain a hurdle

Samsung Electronics' contract chipmaking business could approach full utilization in the second half of 2026, marking a potential turning point after prolonged underuse weighed on...

Tuesday 4 August 2026

HP, Asus and Acer reportedly turn to CXMT for laptop memory

HP, Asus and Acer have begun using limited quantities of DRAM from China's ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) in selected budget notebooks...

Tuesday 4 August 2026

Taiwan classifies semiconductors, AI as high-energy industries, launches decarbonization project

Taiwan's government has recently begun classifying the semiconductor and AI industries as high-energy consumption industries in recent...

Tuesday 4 August 2026

Wistron backs Taiwan's sovereign AI effort with 2.4 million computing hours

Wistron will provide 2.4 million hours of AI computing capacity in 2026 and support Taiwan's first open-source language model for three...

Tuesday 4 August 2026

Kumamoto semiconductor production recovers, TSMC's Japan subsidiary returns to normal operations

TSMC has announced that Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (JASM), its subsidiary in Kikuyo, Kumamoto Prefecture, has resumed...

Tuesday 4 August 2026

Taiwan specialty chemical firm expands Taiwan, China capacity on AI materials boom, eyes 20% revenue gain in 2026

Taiwan-based specialty chemicals supplier Johnson Fine Chemical expects robust growth in electronic materials demand driven by AI, high-performance computing (HPC) and advanced communications...

Tuesday 4 August 2026

Taiwan-Japan semiconductor ties go beyond supply chain partnerships

Cooperation between Taiwan and Japan in semiconductors will go beyond supply-chain partnerships towards joint technological innovation and talent development, according to Taiwan's...

Tuesday 4 August 2026

Key material shortages prompt suppliers to prioritize three customer groups

Taiwanese research institute Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research (CIER) released Taiwan's manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) for July 2026 on August 3. The seasonally...

Tuesday 4 August 2026

China's Momenta wins nationwide Level 4 testing permit in Germany, widening robotaxi race

China's Momenta has become the first Chinese autonomous-driving company to receive a nationwide Level 4 testing permit from Germany's...

Tuesday 4 August 2026

J&V Energy buys BlackRock's 187MW solar portfolio, doubling annual power output

J&V Energy announced on August 3, 2026, that it had completed the acquisition of a portfolio of operational solar projects in Taiwan...

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