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Wednesday 21 October 2026
Samsung faces delays securing 2nm customers as 4nm capacity reaches full utilization
Samsung Electronics' foundry business has yet to finalize contracts with major global technology companies for its 2nm process, while demand has pushed its 4nm production lines close...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Japan plans JPY400 billion boost for Rapidus 2nm push
Japan plans to provide an additional JPY400 billion (US$2.5 billion) to support Rapidus' advanced semiconductor production between fiscal 2027 and fiscal 2029, as the government seeks...
Tuesday 20 October 2026
Commentary: Samsung's US 2nm ramp faces no room for error
Samsung Electronics' 2nm mass-production capability at its Taylor, Texas fab has become critical to its efforts to close the gap with TSMC, as Tesla's AI5 chip delivery schedule and...
Monday 19 October 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: Microsoft Maia 300 leads 2nm race, TSMC's US strategy shifts, Intel EMIB-T faces yield challenge
Microsoft's early adoption of TSMC's 2nm process, a US$2 billion manufacturing partnership between TSMC and GlobalFoundries, and delays to Google's next-gen TPU highlight diverging...
Friday 16 October 2026
Samsung's Austin chip workforce shrinks 32% as Taylor 2nm fab nears opening
Samsung Electronics' semiconductor workforce in Austin, Texas, shrank 32% in 2025 as local operating expenditures plunged nearly 75%, contrasting with increased activity at its nearby...
Thursday 15 October 2026
TSMC investor conference: TSMC lifts 2026 revenue growth forecast to 44%, 2nm expansion, new 3nm fab
TSMC Chairman and CEO C.C. Wei announced that, driven by relentless AI momentum and strong demand for advanced process technologies, the company has raised its full-year 2026 US dollar...
Thursday 15 October 2026
TSMC eyes US$54.3bn in 4Q26 revenue, but 2nm ramp and overseas fabs pressure margins

TSMC expects fourth-quarter 2026 revenue to reach US$52.3 billion to US$54.3 billion, potentially rising as much as 61% year-over-year, with sustained...

Thursday 15 October 2026
TSMC's AI-fuelled profit streak hits sixth straight record in 3Q26, but 2nm expansion weighs on margins
On October 15, 2026, TSMC reported its sixth consecutive quarter of record net profit, with third-quarter earnings rising 68.7% year-over-year to NT$763.06 billion (approx. US$23.6...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Samsung sends yield engineers to Texas ahead of 2nm production ramp
Samsung Electronics has begun dispatching advanced-process yield engineers from South Korea to its Taylor, Texas, foundry ahead of planned 2nm chip volume production in 2027, South...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Microsoft's 2nm Maia 300 completes cloud AI ASIC lineup, setting up 2027 server supply-chain boom
Microsoft has unveiled its latest in-house AI application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), Maia 300, and accompanying server rack, with its compute chiplets manufactured using TSMC's...
Monday 12 October 2026
How 'Filter Moore's Law' is doubling revenue for a Taiwan chip filter maker
Under what the industry terms the "Filter Moore's Law," each process node shrink lowers tolerance for airborne molecular contaminants, causing filtration demand to grow exponentially...
Monday 12 October 2026
TSMC, ASML eye 12-inch photomasks to unlock High-NA EUV's full-field potential
Advanced semiconductor manufacturing is progressing toward 2nm and angstrom-era nodes (Å; where 1 nm equals 10 Å), bringing high-numerical-aperture extreme ultraviolet...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Samsung ramps Exynos 2700 wafer production as second-gen 2nm rollout advances
Samsung Electronics has reportedly begun front-end wafer mass production of its next-generation Exynos 2700 mobile application processor, with production volume planned at more than...
Monday 5 October 2026
AMD's Lisa Su back in Taiwan as AI capacity crunch spreads beyond TSMC
AMD CEO Lisa Su arrived in Taiwan on October 5 for a lightning visit, less than five months after her May trip. No major public events are scheduled, but meetings with key suppliers...
Friday 2 October 2026
Samsung's Galaxy Tab S12 taps MediaTek Dimensity 9500 as 2nm successor arrives
MediaTek announced on September 30 that its flagship Dimensity 9500 chip powers Samsung's new Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra and Galaxy Tab S12+ tablets. The deal continues a long-running partnership...