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Monday 21 September 2026
DB HiTek gains pricing power as 8-inch supply tightens

South Korea's DB HiTek is gaining pricing power as tightening 8-inch foundry supply, high utilization, and stronger demand for power-management...

Monday 21 September 2026
Weekly news roundup: AI boom strains chips; Google's TPUs pay off, China eyes 3nm without EUV
This week's reports centered on intensifying competition and bottlenecks across the semiconductor and AI supply chains, from Sandisk's unusual engineering push in Korea and Google's...
Monday 21 September 2026
Syensqo showcased advanced materials enabling AI-era semiconductor manufacturing at SEMICON Taiwan 2026

Syensqo, a leading global supplier of advanced materials and chemical solutions, showcased its advanced materials portfolio for next-generation semiconductor manufacturing,...

Monday 21 September 2026
US-Mexico trade talks put AI servers in focus as Taiwan ODMs seek common ground

The US is reportedly pressuring Mexico to tighten rules of origin for AI hardware to limit the use of components produced outside North...

Monday 21 September 2026
Dassault Systèmes: AI-native transformation emerges as Taiwan's next industrial frontier

Digital transformation is no longer the endpoint for Taiwan's technology industries. As artificial intelligence moves from individual...

Monday 21 September 2026
Samsung reportedly cuts QD TV output 80% as Neo QLED phaseout looms

Samsung Electronics will reportedly slash quantum-dot (QD) LCD TV production in 2026 to 2 million to 3 million units, down as much as...

Monday 21 September 2026
AI safety debate heats up: Pegatron chairman urges risk controls, not an innovation halt

AI safety concerns are intensifying debate over whether development should slow, with US technology executives divided over the trade-off...

Sunday 20 September 2026
Charts: Two-thirds of Taiwan's chip equipment growth comes from testing AI chips

Taiwan's listed semiconductor equipment, components, and solutions suppliers are growing at nearly twice the pace of the chipmakers...

Sunday 20 September 2026
BYD plans four Europe factories as EU tariff pressure rises

BYD is planning four factories in Europe over the long term as it works to meet local manufacturing rules and expand its customer base...

Saturday 19 September 2026
Amazon Leo clears Taiwan's NCC review, with commercial launch pointed at 2027
FarEasTone Telecommunications has cleared four of the six regulatory steps required to bring Amazon Leo to Taiwan, but commercial service will not start until 2027 at the earliest,...
Saturday 19 September 2026
Power grids can't keep pace with AI data center boom in EU, US
According to supply chain players, most AI data center cost models used by analysts in both China and the West only count electricity consumption when estimating the cost of AI data...
Saturday 19 September 2026
Memory recovery, price hikes lift Niching IC substrate outlook, order visibility through 2H27

Semiconductor packaging and testing materials distributor Niching Industrial hosted an investor conference on September 17. chief financial...

Saturday 19 September 2026
Interview: Advanced packaging shifts toward system-level co-design for AI

Advanced packaging remains one of the semiconductor industry's hottest technology areas in 2026. In Taiwan, terms such as co-packaged...

Saturday 19 September 2026
Charts: Taiwan's memory makers are outgrowing TSMC by a factor of eight

Taiwan's chipmakers are having their best year in a decade, and the headline number belongs to TSMC. The more interesting one does n...

Friday 18 September 2026
Solidigm weighs first US NAND fab, explores upstate New York

Solidigm, the US NAND flash subsidiary of SK Hynix, is considering building its first NAND manufacturing plant in the US, with upstate...