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Foundry house TSMC plays a crucial role in the semiconductor sector, and the world economy in general.

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Thursday 1 October 2026

Lip-Bu Tan calls TSMC a partner rather than a rival

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan stated that Intel's relationship with TSMC is built on partnership rather than rivalry. He noted that a collaborative mindset guides key industry leaders, including...

Thursday 1 October 2026

How a TSMC veteran is steering Singapore's lab-to-fab chip strategy

Yee-Chia Yeo, vice president for innovation and enterprise at A*STAR, returned to Singapore in 2022 and has since turned years of industry experience into a strategy for advancing...

Wednesday 30 September 2026

Apple A20 Pro ditches PoP memory packaging for WMCM

Apple's A20 Pro chip has dropped traditional package-on-package (PoP) packaging in favor of Wafer-Level Multi-Chip Module (WMCM), with memory and processor dies laid out side by side...

Wednesday 30 September 2026

Taiwan backs TSMC's US push but insists core R&D stays home

Taiwan's semiconductor industry, which originated in the Hsinchu Science Park and later expanded to the Central and Southern Taiwan Science Parks, now encompasses manufacturing bases...

Wednesday 30 September 2026

Foundry 2.0 revenue hits record as growth spreads beyond TSMC

Global Foundry 2.0 market revenue reached a record US$96.6 billion in the second quarter of 2026, up 25% year-over-year and 11% sequentially, as semiconductor demand tied to data-center...

Wednesday 30 September 2026

Samsung expects HPC to account for 66% of foundry business by 2029

Samsung Electronics expects high-performance computing (HPC) to account for 66% of its foundry business by 2029, up from 28% currently, as the company shifts its contract chipmaking...

Wednesday 30 September 2026

TSMC reportedly evaluates Texas fabs as US regional competition intensifies

TSMC is reportedly evaluating whether to build a second US manufacturing hub in Texas, potentially housing up to 6 advanced wafer fabs, as its US footprint continues to expand. The...

Tuesday 29 September 2026

GlobalFoundries eyes GaN expansion to challenge TSMC in AI

GlobalFoundries (GF) is preparing a major global capacity expansion as TSMC is set to gradually exit gallium nitride (GaN) foundry services...

Tuesday 29 September 2026

SK Hynix tests HBM5 with TSMC as HBM4 enters Nvidia's next platform

SK Hynix has validated its HBM5 memory with TSMC's CoWoS packaging, the company said in a September 28 post on its corporate newsroom...

Tuesday 29 September 2026

TSMC helps VSMC build first Singapore fab in 22 months at lower cost than US

VSMC, the joint venture between Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) and NXP Semiconductors, officially opened its first 12-inch wafer fab in Singapore on September 28, completing...

Tuesday 29 September 2026

Behind CoWoS (part 2): How TSMC turned a niche packaging experiment into an industry standard

As chip design enters the AI era, heterogeneous integration is driving foundry giants like TSMC, Samsung, and Intel to bring advanced front-end fab capabilities into back-end packaging...

Tuesday 29 September 2026

Behind CoWoS (part 1)—How a 0% yield crisis led to TSMC's first advanced packaging win

In a recent interview on the DIGITIMES podcast, Dr. Shin-Puu Jeng, chairman of the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS) and a former longtime TSMC...

Thursday 24 September 2026

Cadence, Synopsys certify TSMC A14 design flows ahead of 2028 production

Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys have achieved certification for key design flows on TSMC's A14 process, expanding the design ecosystem...

Thursday 24 September 2026

Qualcomm sticks with TSMC for both 2nm Snapdragon flagships as Samsung steps up foundry push

Qualcomm is sticking with TSMC for both of its newly launched 2nm Snapdragon flagship processors, extending the Taiwan foundry's hold on Qualcomm's top-tier mobile chips even as Samsung...

Thursday 24 September 2026

TSMC locks in 3-6% wafer out price hikes for 2027

TSMC is reportedly planning another wafer foundry price increase, with supply chain sources saying its order visibility now extends...

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