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Friday 14 August 2026
Kioxia eyes customer trials for PCIe Gen6 optical SSD

Kioxia is developing a PCIe Gen6 optical SSD and hopes to work with customers on its next prototype, as the Japanese memory maker tackles...

Friday 14 August 2026
Rapidus targets 8-reticle interposers by 2030
Rapidus expects interposers for high-performance chips to reach eight-reticle scale by around 2030, as larger chiplets and high-bandwidth memory (HBM) push advanced packages toward...
Friday 14 August 2026
ATEN lifts second-quarter profit on higher sales, pricing, utilization
ATEN International said its second-quarter 2026 revenue rose 19% year-over-year, while gross margin improved to 62% from 59% and pretax profit jumped 235%. The Taiwan-based keyboard-video-mouse...
Thursday 13 August 2026
TSMC-Sony image sensor venture pushes Japan chip investment to JPY6 trillion

TSMC said on August 11 that it will invest in CMOS image sensor development and mass production with Sony Group in Kumamoto Prefecture,...

Wednesday 12 August 2026
Japan's US$430B 2040 chip plan hinges on Rapidus 2nm

Japan has drawn up a plan for more than JPY370 trillion (approx. US$2.33 trillion) in combined public and private investment across 17 strategic...

Monday 10 August 2026
Semiconductor material prices surge across silicon wafers, specialty gases and advanced packaging
Demand for advanced processes and packaging continues to rise, while the Middle East conflict is lifting energy and raw-material costs and tighter Chinese controls on strategic-mineral...
Sunday 9 August 2026
Rohm sees AI server demand lift first-quarter profit 4,825%
Rohm Semiconductor reported sharply higher first-quarter results on August 5, 2026, as recovering demand for automotive power semiconductors and strong AI-linked data center business...
Sunday 9 August 2026
Ajinomoto rides advanced packaging boom as ABF demand surges

Ajinomoto raised its full-year forecast on August 6 as growing demand for AI servers and high-performance computing lifted sales of...

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...

Wednesday 5 August 2026
Mitsubishi Electric, Daikin expand US production to meet data center cooling demand

Mitsubishi Electric is establishing a cooling-equipment production company in Ohio, joining Daikin Industries in bringing manufacturing...

Wednesday 5 August 2026
Fanuc raises fiscal 2026 outlook as costs and supply bottlenecks weigh on profits
Fanuc said first-quarter orders for fiscal 2026 surged 37% year-on-year to a record JPY281.9 billion, even as the industrial robot maker drew market concern for raising its full-year...
Tuesday 4 August 2026
HP, Asus and Acer reportedly turn to CXMT for laptop memory

HP, Asus and Acer have begun using limited quantities of DRAM from China's ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) in selected budget notebooks...

Tuesday 4 August 2026
Kumamoto semiconductor production recovers, TSMC's Japan subsidiary returns to normal operations

TSMC has announced that Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (JASM), its subsidiary in Kikuyo, Kumamoto Prefecture, has resumed...