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Tuesday 1 September 2026
Research insights: AI Fabric optical interconnects move into racks as 400G/lane and CPO maturity emerge as key variables
DIGITIMES observed that as AI systems continued to scale, interconnect requirements inside AI data centers had expanded from chips, packages, and boards to racks, clusters, and eventually...
Monday 31 August 2026
Marvell sees 2027 acceleration in scale-up optics
Marvell said on its fiscal second-quarter of 2027 earnings call that customers are actively planning to deploy scale-up optical solutions as early as 2027, with demand for near-package...
Monday 31 August 2026
TSMC tackles the AI I/O wall with two COUPE bandwidth paths and deeper heterogeneous integration
TSMC is sharpening its silicon photonics (SiPh) roadmap to address the widening gap between AI compute growth and chip-to-chip data movement, unveiling two bandwidth-scaling paths...
Monday 24 August 2026
AI accelerator shipments are set to turn advanced packaging into the next battleground: Counterpoint
AI accelerator shipments are expected to reshape semiconductor demand worldwide, with implications for cloud operators, memory suppliers, and device makers in every major market. Counterpoint...
Friday 21 August 2026
JCET hits 1.5μm TSV milestone for denser HBM and 2.5D/3D packaging
JCET Group has completed trial production of a 1.5μm-diameter, 17μm-deep through-silicon via (TSV) with an aspect ratio of 11.3:1, extending its advanced packaging capabilities...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
Manz Asia targets PLP demand with three lines and three sizes
Manz Asia is broadening its push into panel-level packaging (PLP) as interest in the technology continues to rise. General manager Robert Lin said the company has shipped more than...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
LG's raw material costs jump by over KRW1 trillion in 1H26, auto components hit hardest

Rising chip and copper prices are rapidly increasing cost pressure on LG Electronics.

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Xintec readies 12-inch IVR backside copper for TSMC's next-gen AI chips

TSMC is expanding cooperation with packaging and testing affiliate Xintec as it develops next-generation power delivery and advanced packaging...

Monday 17 August 2026
Lightmatter sets optical interconnect blueprint as AI hits copper wall

AI data centers are approaching a physical limit: as scale-up architectures stretch across multiple racks and SerDes speeds near 448G,...

Friday 14 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: What if AI's next efficiency breakthrough is simply moving less?

For years, the logic of AI infrastructure has been straightforward: move more data, push more power, transmit more signals, remove...

Friday 14 August 2026
Gem Terminal's second-quarter profit hits 16-quarter high on copper and connector demand
Gem Terminal Industry said its net profit in the second quarter of 2026 reached a 16-quarter high as niche products and improved production efficiency in Taiwan and Vietnam lifted...
Friday 14 August 2026
Beyond silicon and copper: OCP APAC looks under the hood of future AI infrastructure
AI's appetite for compute is growing at such speeds that simply building bigger versions of today's data centers may no longer cut it.
Thursday 13 August 2026
OCP APAC 2026: Ayar Labs CEO says copper is holding back open compute, sees optical interconnects as way forward
Speaking at the OCP APAC Summit 2026, Ayar Labs CEO Mark Wade argued that copper interconnects have become one of the biggest obstacles to realizing the vision of open computing.
Thursday 13 August 2026
GaAs gains ground in short-reach AI optics as InP constraints mount
As AI workloads push data center interconnects from 800G toward 1.6T, indium phosphide (InP) has become a critical material for high-speed optical links, particularly for longer-distance...
Thursday 13 August 2026
Can diamond rewrite the rules of AI chip cooling? Wiwynn is putting it to the test
As AI processors become more powerful, one of the industry's most stubborn constraints is becoming increasingly physical: there is only so much heat conventional materials can move...