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Thursday 18 December 2025

China's EUV prototype forces a rethink of the AI chip order

China has quietly crossed a psychological and potentially strategic threshold in the global semiconductor race. In a tightly controlled laboratory in Shenzhen, Chinese scientists have...

Thursday 18 December 2025

Cyient Semiconductors to acquire majority stake in Kinetic Technologies for US$93 million

Cyient Ltd's wholly owned subsidiary, Cyient Semiconductors Singapore Pte Ltd, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire over 65% of US-based power semiconductor company Kinetic...

Thursday 18 December 2025

Advanced packaging drives ABF substrate expansion as Taiwanese companies exit post-pandemic capacity cuts

As more AI GPU, CPU, and ASIC customers ramp up their market push, advanced packaging capacity continues to face tight supply. This has prompted upstream IC packaging substrate makers...

Thursday 18 December 2025

Apple reportedly explores chip assembly in India, signaling supply chain diversification

Apple is reportedly in preliminary talks with Indian chip manufacturers to assemble and package components for the iPhone, potentially marking a first step in shifting part of its...

Thursday 18 December 2025

Taiwan targets four research priorities to maintain semiconductor leadership

Taiwan has long dominated advanced semiconductor manufacturing, with TSMC's global R&D headquarters in Hsinchu alone employing over 10,000 researchers. The government continues...

Wednesday 17 December 2025

UMC backs Unimicron expansion to reinforce IC substrate supply as AI demand rises

United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) announced on December 17 that it will participate in the capital increase of its affiliate, IC...

Wednesday 17 December 2025

Rapidus unveils glass interposer to challenge TSMC

Rapidus, Japan's state-backed chipmaker, has developed a prototype glass interposer for artificial intelligence chips. The company says the technology could lower production costs...

Wednesday 17 December 2025

Samsung Foundry reportedly wins Intel 8nm order after Nvidia

Samsung Electronics' foundry division is reported to have secured an 8nm manufacturing order from Intel, adding another blue-chip customer to its mature advanced-node portfolio after...

Wednesday 17 December 2025

Advantest, Tokyo Seimitsu to co-develop die-level probers for AI and HPC

Semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest and Tokyo Seimitsu have announced a joint plan to co-develop a next-generation die-level prober for high-performance computing compo...

Wednesday 17 December 2025

Moore's Law of Economy: Former TSMC exec warns semiconductor talent gap could widen 15-fold

Burn-Jeng Lin, one of TSMC's six R&D pioneers and current dean of National Tsing Hua University's College of Semiconductor Research, introduced the concept of a "Moore's Law of...

Wednesday 17 December 2025

MSScorps eyes rebound as angstrom-era and silicon photonics demand surges

MSScorps signaled a business recovery on Wednesday following a midyear lull, citing surging demand for angstrom-era semiconductor manufacturing and silicon photonics as key drivers...

Wednesday 17 December 2025

Topco partners with Taiwan academia to advance semiconductor materials R&D

In a strategic move to bolster Taiwan's semiconductor talent pipeline and advanced research capabilities, Topco Scientific Co. (TSC) announced on December 16, 2025, a deep industry-academia...

Wednesday 17 December 2025

Taiwan's WIN Semiconductors bets on optical and microwave tech for the space age

The rapid push by companies such as SpaceX and Amazon to develop space-based AI data centers is creating new applications for optical communications, a technology long viewed as central...

Wednesday 17 December 2025

Tokyo Ohka ramps up South Korea investment for advanced chip materials

Tokyo Ohka Kogyo plans to accelerate investment in South Korea and expand production of materials critical to generative AI semiconductors,...

Tuesday 16 December 2025

'Father of Immersion Lithography' warns: Intel's TSMC talent grab invites process tech scrutiny

Intel's recruitment of Wei-jen Lo, formerly TSMC's Senior Vice President of Strategy Development, signals an aggressive push by the US IDM to regain process leadership. However, industry...

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