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Nov 27, 10:27

Intel backs Wei-Jen Lo—raising awkward questions for TSMC, Washington, and the chip world

Intel's controversial hiring of former TSMC senior vice president Wei-Jen Lo has escalated into one of the semiconductor industry's most sensitive personnel disputes in years. The situation has become tangled in legal uncertainty, national security implications, and geopolitical imbalances in technology cooperation.

China-EU urge an internal resolution of Nexperia dispute

Nov 27, 15:38

TSMC's retired tools spark fierce demand in China, ASEAN

Nov 27, 11:04

Samsung poised for memory and foundry gains as Google TPU push accelerates

Nov 27, 10:40

Commentary: How Huawei’s Kirin 9030 pushes into 7nm threshold

Nov 27, 10:30

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IC MANUFACTURINGTSMC's 2nm secrets case erupts into raids on Intel hire Wei-Jen Lo

Nov 27, 22:38

Taiwan's investigation into former TSMC senior vice-president Wei-Jen Lo intensified on November 26 as prosecutors carried out search and seizure operations in Taipei and Hsinchu, escalating one of the island's most sensitive technology-security cases in years.

IC DESIGN, DISTRIBUTIONBeijing reportedly bans ByteDance from using Nvidia GPUs in new data centers

Nov 27, 15:12

Beijing authorities have reportedly imposed strict restrictions on high-end semiconductor imports, prohibiting ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, from deploying Nvidia GPUs in newly built data centers. Nationally funded infrastructure projects must now utilize domestically produced AI chips, signaling a significant policy shift towards semiconductor self-reliance.

IC MANUFACTURINGJtron joins Advantest and TSMC's outsourced test service chain

Nov 27, 11:40

Jtron Technology, a semiconductor test equipment engineering and technical service provider that has joined the supply chains of Advantest and TSMC, is scheduled to list on the over-the-counter market in late December 2025. Jtron Chairman Yih-Min Lin stated that revenue in 2025 is almost certain to break a record high. The company's internal goal is to maintain steady growth in engineering maintenance service revenue while deepening development of its own product business.

MEMORY CHIPSSK Hynix reportedly to debut industry's fastest 48Gbps GDDR7 memory at ISSCC 2026

Nov 27, 10:56

SK Hynix is reportedly set to unveil the fastest graphics double data rate 7 (GDDR7) memory with a data rate of 48 gigabits per second (Gbps), aiming to boost its competitiveness in the high-performance graphics and artificial intelligence (AI) memory sectors. The move is seen as a strategic effort to outpace Samsung Electronics in speed performance.

IC DESIGN, DISTRIBUTIONGoogle pushes TPU-OCS architecture as Gemini 3 aims at ChatGPT

Nov 27, 09:52

Google's release of its Gemini 3 large language model (LLM) in November—trained primarily on the company's in-house TPU chips and performing at or above the level of OpenAI's ChatGPT—has become a catalyst for a broader strategic push. According to overseas reports, Google is now using its newest advances in AI models to pitch major clients, including Meta, on deploying TPU-based systems inside Google-operated data centers.

IC MANUFACTURINGTaiwan advances in global quantum race with photon pair and entanglement chip breakthroughs

Nov 27, 07:41

Taiwan's national quantum program is entering the final year of its first phase, with Academia Sinica and other research groups achieving significant breakthroughs. These include optical Schrödinger cat state generators using heralded photon pairs and high-integration polarization-entangled Bell-state quantum light source chips.

IC DESIGN, DISTRIBUTIONMediaTek research earns global recognition as CEO prepares plenary talk for ISSCC 2026

Nov 27, 07:40

MediaTek announced that numerous company research papers have been accepted at leading global academic conferences in semiconductors, artificial intelligence (AI), and communications in 2025. This includes two papers from MediaTek's Taiwan headquarters research and development team, which were selected for the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2026, often called the "Olympics of IC design." With these additions, the company has now had more than 100 papers accepted over 23 consecutive years.

PASSIVE, PCB, OTHER IC COMPONENTSAnpec experiences spillover effects from memory price increases

Nov 27, 07:39

Power management IC (PMIC) supplier Anpec Electronics held its investor conference on November 24, 2025, stating that multiple product lines for 2026 have already passed the design-in stage and are about to enter mass production. Although the 2025 comparison base is already relatively high, the company still hopes to achieve double-digit growth in 2026.

IC MANUFACTURINGRapidus denies 1.4nm fab timeline amid Japan's multi-trillion-yen chip push

Nov 27, 07:37

Rapidus has denied reports suggesting it has started building a new 1.4nm fab or established a mass-production timetable.

PASSIVE, PCB, OTHER IC COMPONENTSTaiwanese firms expand 5G glass fiber capacity to challenge Japan's dominance

Nov 27, 07:36

The surge in global AI infrastructure demand is driving major upgrades in PCB material specifications, but it has also exposed supply shortages of critical upstream materials such as high-end glass fiber, HVLP4 copper foil, and coated drill bits from Japanese suppliers. This is creating hidden bottlenecks in AI server shipments.

MEMORY CHIPSSK Hynix drives 65% of SK Group's exports as 2025 totals near record

Nov 26

Buoyed by surging semiconductor exports at SK Hynix, the SK Group is on track to post a record-breaking KRW120 trillion (approx. US$81 billion) in exports in 2025, underscoring the company's growing dominance in South Korea's trade performance. SK Hynix alone now accounts for roughly 65% of the conglomerate's outbound shipments.

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