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Tuesday 29 September 2026
Advanced packaging shifts toward system integration as AI renews semiconductor talent appeal

At Singapore's Innovate Together 2026 conference on September 25, executives and researchers from A*STAR's Institute of Microelectronics...

Tuesday 29 September 2026
GlobalFoundries eyes GaN expansion to challenge TSMC in AI

GlobalFoundries (GF) is preparing a major global capacity expansion as TSMC is set to gradually exit gallium nitride (GaN) foundry services...

Tuesday 29 September 2026
Exclusive: Inside Tesla's playbook for dodging First Solar's TOPCon patent traps
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film solar giant First Solar is widely viewed across the global solar supply chain as the most aggressive litigant in US TOPCon patent infringement disputes...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Apple's foldable iPhone Duo faces low yields ahead of October launch
Apple's first foldable handset, the iPhone Duo, is nearing launch in October, but reports from China said production remains constrained by low yields in final assembly, panels, and...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Advantech's North America expansion signals a deeper shift toward local manufacturing, services

Advantech is expanding manufacturing, engineering, and fulfillment capabilities in North America as demand grows for locally designed...

Monday 28 September 2026
NXP says Singapore fab with Vanguard is its biggest investment since Freescale
NXP Semiconductors CEO Rafael Sotomayor said the Singapore fab NXP built with Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) is NXP's largest investment since it acquired Freescale in...
Monday 28 September 2026
Weekly news roundup: China gains ground in memory and AI hardware as supply stays tight
China's AI sector is shifting from catch-up to commercialization, with value concentrating in hardware bottlenecks and large platforms rather than independent model labs. Across memory,...
Monday 28 September 2026
Apple keeps iPhone Duo in China, exposing limits of India's phone supply chain

Apple's first foldable iPhone has become a test of how far India has come as a manufacturing base, and the answer is sobering. As India-assembled...

Monday 28 September 2026
China's Micro Han Xin code takes aim at Data Matrix in semiconductor traceability

China is trying to carve out a foothold in semiconductor supply-chain standards with Micro Han Xin, a miniaturized version of its home-grown...

Monday 28 September 2026
India roundup: India's tech ambitions widen from electronics manufacturing to chips, cloud and talent
India's technology push is widening across electronics manufacturing, semiconductors, cloud infrastructure and talent, as domestic expansion draws deeper investment, tighter scrutiny...
Sunday 27 September 2026
China wields LCD pricing power as OLED patent war with Samsung heats up
Chinese LCD panel manufacturers are issuing price adjustment notices to their clients, a move poised to increase television manufacturing costs for South Korean tech giants Samsung...
Sunday 27 September 2026
South Korea's 300mm research gap: Daejeon pitches an open fab as a US$1.46 billion fix
Daejeon is seeking to build a roughly KRW2 trillion (approx. US$1.46 billion) national semiconductor research hub centered on an open 300mm manufacturing and demonstration fab, aiming...
Sunday 27 September 2026
Chinese automakers tighten control over supply chains as margins shrink

Chinese automakers are reshaping how they build, source, and sell vehicles as profits come under pressure, a shift with implications...

Friday 25 September 2026
Singapore brands its chip sector as it tries to move up from manufacturing
Singapore is deepening semiconductor R&D ties with Applied Materials, KLA, GlobalFoundries (GF) and other industry players across advanced packaging and silicon photonics, as the...
Friday 25 September 2026
Trump-Xi summit leaves rare-earth issue unresolved amid yttrium supply squeeze
The Trump-Xi summit left rare-earth supplies among the unresolved issues in US-China economic relations, as the US and Japan confront uneven access to yttrium, a little-known rare-earth...