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Wednesday 26 August 2026
Samsung steps up Taylor Fab 2 preparations as foundry capacity tightens
Samsung Electronics has begun asking semiconductor equipment suppliers to complete safety-compliance groundwork for a second foundry fab in Taylor, Texas, months before construction...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
SK hynix adds second major customer as Nvidia misses Samsung's top five
SK hynix added a second customer accounting for more than 10% of revenue in the first half of 2026, while Nvidia remained outside Samsung Electronics' five largest customers, highlighting...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
India mmWave opportunity emerges; Gemtek moves early
India has continued to push next-generation communications infrastructure, and the Telecommunication Engineering Centre (TEC) under the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has officially...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Tesla senior chip engineer joins DensityAI as in-house plans face more strain
Tesla's senior director of AI hardware design, Shishuang Sun, joined DensityAI in July 2026, taking charge of packaging and system hardware development. The move came as Tesla continued...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Intel x86 share drops below 70% as AMD reaches a record high
Intel's long-running lead in x86 processors slipped below a major threshold in the second quarter of 2026, even as AI infrastructure spending helped support demand. New market data...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Smartphone lens maker Largan spends US$179m on four Taichung plants in two months
Largan Precision, the world's largest maker of smartphone camera lenses and a longtime supplier of lenses for Apple's iPhone, said on August 25 it would buy land and buildings in Taichung's...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Taiwan's manufacturers and govt align on economic security push amid heightened trade risk
The Chinese National Federation of Industries (CNFI), an industrial association representing the majority of manufacturing businesses in Taiwan, has released its 2026 white paper,...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Luxshare breaks beyond consumer electronics: Auto sales soar 274%, data centres jump 50%
Luxshare Precision posted a 40.16% rise in first-half 2026 revenue as rapid growth in automotive electronics, communications and data-centre products reduced its reliance on consumer...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
China foundry Nexchip breaks beyond display chips: CIS reaches 25% of revenue
Nexchip Semiconductor reported higher first-half 2026 revenue as broadening demand for CMOS image sensors, power management chips and display drivers diversified its product mix, even...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
GATE 2026 to spotlight Southeast Asia's pivot to EV supply chains
GATE 2026 is set to bring together automakers, suppliers, and technology firms in Kuala Lumpur as Southeast Asia deepens its focus on electric vehicles, smart manufacturing, and industrial...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
China power chip makers CRM, Silan post sharp 1H profit gains
China Resources Microelectronics (CRM) and Hangzhou Silan Microelectronics (Silan), two of China's leading integrated device manufacturers, reported strong first-half 2026 results...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
AI boom drives Foxconn past 40% of Taiwan-listed firms' China returns, with FII leading the way
Global demand for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) has lifted investment returns for Taiwan-listed companies in China, with Foxconn continuing to lead the pack. According to...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Kulicke and Soffa names Raj Talluri as CEO
Kulicke and Soffa Industries has appointed Raj Talluri as president and chief executive officer, a leadership change that may influence the company's strategy in semiconductor equipment...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
Intel pitches Diamond Rapids at Hot Chips as server CPU competition heats up
Intel pitched its next-generation Diamond Rapids Xeon at Hot Chips 2026 as the company bets that agentic AI will increase the role of general-purpose processors in AI infrastructure,...
Tuesday 25 August 2026
OmniVision's CIS business slips, but machine vision and robotics surge 71%
OmniVision Group reported a sharp drop in first-half 2026 profit as weakness in consumer electronics and automotive electronics weighed on its core image sensor business, even as machine...