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Saturday 8 August 2026

Highpoint Service Network posts record first-half profit on India expansion

Highpoint Service Network approved its second-quarter 2026 financial report on August 5, posting record revenue for both the quarter and the first half as it expanded in the Asia-Pacific...

Saturday 8 August 2026

Ching Chan Optical profit jumps on high-end optical sorter demand

Ching Chan Optical Technology said second-quarter 2026 earnings per share reached NT$0.96, up 12-fold year-on-year, as shipments of high-end optical sorting machines for passive components...

Saturday 8 August 2026

iST reports higher gross margin in the second quarter as validation demand rises

Integrated Service Technology (iST) reported consolidated revenue of about NT$1.184 billion in the second quarter of 2026, up 9.24% quarter-over-quarter but down 1.7% from a year earlier...

Saturday 8 August 2026

Nova Technology posts record second-quarter and first-half profit on strong order recognition

Nova Technology posted record second-quarter and first-half 2026 profit as orders from semiconductor, memory, and advanced packaging customers continued to drive revenue recognition...

Friday 7 August 2026

Analysis: TSMC expands Japan footprint with 3nm fab, advanced packaging push

TSMC is expanding Japan's role in its global network as it prepares to add 3nm production in Kumamoto and deepens local capabilities in advanced packaging, chip design and next-generation...

Friday 7 August 2026

Ibiden raises full-year profit forecast as AI server and substrate demand strengthens

Ibiden said on August 4 that it raised its fiscal 2026 outlook after stronger-than-expected demand from generative AI and a recovery in the general-purpose server market lifted results...

Friday 7 August 2026

Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala weighs US$6.3B investment in Japan AI data center

The United Arab Emirates is considering investing as much as JPY1 trillion (approx. US$6.3 billion) in a 500MW artificial intelligence...

Friday 7 August 2026

SK Hynix commits US$39 billion to new Yongin and Cheongju fabs as AI memory demand builds

SK Hynix has approved roughly KRW54 trillion (approx. US$39 billion) in new fab construction across two domestic sites, allocating KRW35.2 trillion to a second Yongin fab and KRW19.1...

Friday 7 August 2026

China launches review of Palo Alto Networks as trade tensions with US escalate

China's cyberspace authority said it has begun to scrutinize products sold by US cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks within the country, citing risks to national security and...

Friday 7 August 2026

South Korea welcomes Trump polysilicon rules as boost to non-China suppliers

US President Donald Trump's new import rules on polysilicon, ingots, wafers, and solar products could ripple through global clean energy and semiconductor markets, affecting pricing,...

Friday 7 August 2026

SK Hynix's Solidigm weighs up to US$7 billion in pre-IPO funding

Solidigm, SK Hynix's US NAND and enterprise storage unit, is weighing a pre-IPO funding round of KRW5 trillion to KRW10 trillion, roughly US$3.5 billion to US$7 billion,...

Friday 7 August 2026

Chinese AI firms shift toward monetization as LLM providers reportedly signal price increases

Chinese large language model (LLM) developers are beginning to move away from aggressive price competition, with leading players reportedly introducing higher prices and new commercial...

Friday 7 August 2026

US optical transceiver ban risks slowing AI data center build-out

A proposed US ban on new Chinese optical transceivers could disrupt the build-out of AI data centers before Western suppliers have enough capacity to replace Chinese production, raising...

Friday 7 August 2026

South Korea clears ITU hurdle for world's first SDV standard

A South Korea-backed draft standard for software-defined vehicles (SDVs) has cleared a key milestone at the International Telecommunication...

Friday 7 August 2026

China's MLCC supply chain ramps up as AI boom drives global component shortage

China's multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) supply chain is accelerating capacity expansion as surging demand from AI servers and automotive...

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