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Thursday 5 November 2026
Samsung reportedly plans 2nm fab to boost HBM base-die output
Samsung Electronics is preparing to build a 2nm- and 4nm-class foundry fab at its Giheung campus in Yongin, South Korea, to expand production of logic base dies used in high-bandwidth...
Thursday 5 November 2026
FPT starts chip-testing plant trials in northern Vietnam, plans packaging expansion
FPT has begun trial operations at a semiconductor testing and packaging plant in Vietnam's Bac Ninh province, initially focusing on chip testing as it prepares to expand into packaging...
Thursday 5 November 2026
Taiwan-Netherlands launch four photonics R&D partnerships
Taiwan and the Netherlands announced four joint research and development collaborations on November 4 under their bilateral Technology Bridge Program, targeting photonic packaging,...
Thursday 5 November 2026
AI chips need 1.5 years to move beyond cloud: HCLTech
HCLTech said AI chips will need about 1.5 years to move into mass adoption beyond cloud infrastructure, as the industry develops integrated semiconductor platforms to support large-scale...
Wednesday 4 November 2026
Former Intel packaging chief Navid Shahriari joins MediaTek as senior vice president
MediaTek announced that Navid Shahriari will join the company on November 9 as Senior Vice President, reporting to the General Manager and Chief Operating Officer.
Wednesday 4 November 2026
Explosion at Panasonic CCL plant in Taiwan injures five, two missing
Panasonic Industrial Devices Materials Taiwan's Hukou plant experienced an explosion and fire early on November 4, injuring five employees and leaving two others unaccounted for. The...
Tuesday 3 November 2026
South Korea urged to link chip fab support to local suppliers
South Korea should tie government support for new semiconductor fabs to commitments that benefit domestic chip designers, equipment makers, and packaging suppliers, a state-funded...
Tuesday 3 November 2026
China's chip packagers ride AI demand, price hikes, but investment gains, capex cloud the profit picture
China's outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) companies entered the fourth quarter with rising sales, high utilization, and an industry-wide price upturn. Their third-quarter...
Tuesday 3 November 2026
MediaTek, Marvell, Broadcom battle for ASIC supply through 2028
Competition in the AI application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) market will extend beyond 2028, industry sources said, with MediaTek, Broadcom, and Marvell competing not only...
Monday 2 November 2026
AI data center demand fuels THEIL's optical communications rebound, 4Q26 to buck seasonal downtrend
Tong Hsing Electronic Industries (THEIL) outlined the latest developments and market trends across its four major product lines of optical communications, ceramic substrates, new semiconductor...
Monday 2 November 2026
Samsung's Lee bets on Japan for AI chip packaging edge
Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Jae-yong visited the company's Advanced Package Lab (APL) in Yokohama, Japan, on November 1, as the chipmaker looks to Japan's semiconductor materials...
Monday 2 November 2026
Dixon maps AI hardware expansion through Inventec, Gemtek, prospective packaging partners
Dixon Technologies is pursuing separate partnerships for servers, optical communications, and advanced semiconductor packaging as it seeks a role in AI infrastructure manufacturing,...
Monday 2 November 2026
Exclusive: Metal adhesion poses challenge for aluminum nitride in AI optics
As AI and large-scale data center buildouts drive up data transmission speeds, heat is becoming increasingly concentrated in key components. This has drawn attention to ceramic substrates...
Sunday 1 November 2026
Six decades in the making: Why the world can't easily copy Taiwan's chip ecosystem
Taiwan's semiconductor strength is often described today through leading-edge process nodes, advanced packaging capacity, or its pivotal role in the global AI supply chain. At the...
Saturday 31 October 2026
TSIA 30: Taiwan builds the AI backbone — but can it capture the AI economy?
Taiwan already manufactures much of the physical infrastructure on which the AI boom depends. Advanced logic, packaging, substrates, testing, power delivery, cooling, and server assembly...