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Monday 6 July 2026
India launches third semiconductor plant as CG Semi begins commercial production in Gujarat
India Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated CG Semi's Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test (OSAT) facility in Sanand, Gujarat, marking the start of commercial production at...
Monday 6 July 2026
Asahi Kasei to expand Taiwan photoresist film capacity for AI chip packaging
Asahi Kasei, one of the notable suppliers of Sunfort dry film photoresist in Japan, has initiated a fab expansion project in Taiwan. The newly established plant is expected to further...
Monday 6 July 2026
India roundup: India accelerates semiconductor ambitions through policy and global partnerships
India accelerated its semiconductor ambitions through deeper Japan cooperation, policy advances, new manufacturing partnerships, and local technology investments, reinforcing efforts...
Monday 6 July 2026
Analysis: Taiwan's semiconductor sector enters 2026 helium crunch, with nearly 90% dependent on Qatar
Taiwan's chipmakers walked into the 2026 helium supply shock more exposed to Qatar than any other major buyer, sourcing nearly 88% of their rare-gas imports from the Gulf state in...
Sunday 5 July 2026
Applied Materials unveils integrated tools for HBM, chiplet, and 3D packaging scale-up
Applied Materials announced a new equipment platform aimed at addressing the memory bandwidth and energy-efficiency bottleneck confronting AI computing, unveiling tools across DRAM,...
Sunday 5 July 2026
AI, HPC test interface demand drives CHPT June revenue to new monthly high

Test interface supplier Chunghwa Precision Test Tech. Co., Ltd. (CHPT) reported its June 2026 revenue, marking its sixth consecutive...

Sunday 5 July 2026
Advantest and OpenLight join forces on silicon photonics test platform for mass production
Advantest said it has partnered with OpenLight to develop a scalable silicon photonics (SiPh) test solution for mass production environments. The announcement comes as artificial intelligence...
Saturday 4 July 2026
Infineon wins fourth German patent ruling against Innoscience, as GaN fight flares in Shanghai
Germany's District Court Munich I ruled on July 3 that Innoscience infringed Infineon Technologies' gallium nitride (GaN) patents, barring the Chinese chipmaker from importing, selling,...
Saturday 4 July 2026
Machvision's June revenue hits another record due to AI demand
Machvision posted another record monthly revenue in June 2026, as surging demand for AI servers, high-performance computing (HPC), and advanced packaging continued to lift orders for...
Saturday 4 July 2026
TSMC's median pay trails four smaller IC design houses, filings show

Fabless chip designers dominate the upper ranks of Taiwan's newly disclosed non-managerial employee pay data for fiscal year 2025,...

Saturday 4 July 2026
Samsung and SK Hynix seek substrate price cuts for the second half of 2026
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are reportedly pressing South Korean semiconductor substrate suppliers to lower prices for the second half of 2026, even as memory demand remains in...
Friday 3 July 2026
South Korea bets on southwest semiconductor cluster, but key hurdles remain
South Korea on June 29 unveiled a large-scale investment plan for the country's Honam region in the southwest, which mainly covers the city of Gwangju and North and South Jeolla provinces,...
Friday 3 July 2026
Intel takes aim at TSMC's CoWoS lead with EMIB-T
As transistor density scaling slows, chipmakers are leaning on advanced packaging to keep improving accelerator performance. A SemiAnalysis roundup of this year's IEEE Electronic Components...
Friday 3 July 2026
How TSMC quietly turned its supply chain into a 'second fleet'

TSMC has accelerated efforts to localize its supply chain in recent years, using joint development, joint validation, and long-term...

Friday 3 July 2026
Wistron chair urges Taiwan to shift beyond manufacturing mindset in AI era

Wistron chairman Simon Lin said artificial intelligence (AI) is improving the quality of professional talent, noting that tasks that...