Applied Materials plans to expand its Southeast Asia workforce by about 25% this year, adding at least 1,000 workers mainly in Singapore as the city-state becomes a more important manufacturing, logistics, and advanced-packaging hub for the US chip-equipment maker, Nikkei Asia reported

BOE is preparing to hold a mass-production shipment ceremony for its Gen 8.6 IT OLED line in mid-June, positioning the Chinese display maker to claim a first-mover title even as its production yield remains below 30%, according to ZDNet Korea

Semiconductor test equipment makers are facing severe shortages of key components, with lead times for FPGAs, CPUs, GPUs, and driver ICs stretching sharply as AI and data center demand strain the broader chip supply chain, according to The Elec

China's electric vehicle (EV) makers are increasingly designing their own artificial-intelligence (AI) chips. Manufacturing them, however, remains a more complicated challenge

Samsung Electronics is seeking to secure major artificial intelligence (AI) logic-chip customers as its reported preliminary work on a custom SoC for OpenAI slows, while Anthropic emerges as another potential opportunity for Samsung Foundry