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Tuesday 6 October 2026
TSMC Texas-Terafab buzz drives Taiwan contractors to move fast
TSMC has not officially announced anything, but Taiwan's semiconductor facility engineering supply chain is already rushing to Texas after reports that the company is discussing a...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Nittobo expands glass cloth output as AI chip demand strains global supply
Nittobo is expanding production of its T-Glass glass cloth as demand from AI chip makers tightens a critical part of the global semiconductor supply chain. The move matters beyond...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Solidigm expands Taiwan SSD production base to tap AI server supply chain
Solidigm, SK Hynix's NAND subsidiary, is expanding its Taiwan production base for data center solid-state drives (SSDs), underscoring the island's growing role in the global AI server...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Notebook downturn splits supply chain: ODMs lean on servers, component makers seek new growth
Notebook shipments performed better than expected in the first half of 2026, but the market entered a sharp downturn beginning in September, in stark contrast to previous years, when...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
HBM4 prices to nearly triple in 2027, memory makers see windfall margins spread
Memory supply and demand will tighten further in 2027. According to supply chain sources, South Korean memory makers have recently quoted aggressive long-term contract prices for sixth-generation...
Monday 5 October 2026
Kyushu's chip expo expands as Japan adds a chip design focus
Japan's Kyushu Semiconductor Industry Exhibition, known as K-Semi, grew 36% at this year's edition in Fukuoka, held from September 30 to October 1, 2026, as chip makers expanded their...
Monday 5 October 2026
Cheap SiC substrates ignite demand wave, reshape ecosystem
Prices for low-cost 6-inch silicon carbide (SiC) substrates, after years of capacity expansion and brutal price wars, are now showing clear signs of bottoming out in the second half...
Monday 5 October 2026
Tech giants push into Australia for AI data centers
Microsoft is expanding AI and cloud infrastructure in Australia, while Google has announced a Christmas Island connectivity hub amid reports of a proposed data center there. Australia's...
Monday 5 October 2026
Musk raises Tesla AI5 memory to 96GB after cut
Tesla CEO Elon Musk first said on X that the capacity of the AI5 chip memory would be cut in half to 72GB, but later clarified that AI5 will use 96GB of LPDDR5 instead. The change...
Monday 5 October 2026
South Korean SMEs expand space supply chain from reusable rockets to satellite shielding
As South Korea prepares for the fifth launch of its Nuri rocket, small and medium-sized enterprises are taking on increasingly important roles in the country's space supply chain alongside...
Friday 2 October 2026
GMI Cloud secures NT$14.05 billion loan for AI factory
CTBC Bank and GMI Cloud on October 1 announced the closing of an NT$14.05 billion (about US$445 million) syndicated credit facility to fund Taiwan's first AI factory. The deal is the...
Friday 2 October 2026
Nanya Technology wins approval for Southern 3D packaging plant
The Science Park Review Committee under Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) approved 13 investment projects at its 35th meeting on the 1st, including Nanya Technology's...
Thursday 1 October 2026
China's 'BEST' fusion reactor enters the engineering endgame
China's next-generation fusion programme has entered a new engineering phase with the formal opening of the campus for the Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak (BEST)...
Thursday 1 October 2026
AWS Trainium 3 shipments stall as supply chain sees turnaround
AWS's latest Trainium 3 shipments appear to be running behind expectations, but the strain reflects broader pressures that global readers will recognize across the AI hardware supply...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Gold Circuit turns Amazon into a shareholder for Trainium servers
Gold Circuit Electronics (GCE) plans to bring in Amazon as a strategic investor through a private placement expected to raise NT$1.59 billion (US$49.88 million), lifting the two companies...