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Tuesday 1 September 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics takes glass substrates to SEMICON Taiwan
As AI packages grow larger, the next substrate battleground is rapidly extending from traditional organic materials to glass. Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEMCO) will make its first...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
TSMC delays CoWoS orders as CoPoS plans take shape
TSMC's reported delay in placing 2027 advanced packaging equipment orders has sparked market speculation that the company sees excess CoWoS capacity ahead. But equipment suppliers...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
JCET lifts 2026 capex to CNY10 billion as AI packaging demand outruns forecasts
JCET Group is sharply increasing spending as demand for artificial intelligence strains advanced packaging capacity worldwide. The Chinese chip tester and assembler said the shift...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Taiwan's G2C+ Alliance members target global markets
Artificial intelligence (AI) chips are driving a new wave of integration competition among Taiwan semiconductor equipment makers. Taiwan's G2C+ strategic alliance, comprised of C Sun,...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
SEMICON Taiwan 2026 to spotlight AI-driven semiconductor supply chain shifts
SEMICON Taiwan 2026 is set to open soon as Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International said AI is pushing a new wave of technology upgrades across the global chip industry...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Rising Packaging Complexity Elevates Glass in Semiconductor Manufacturing

As transistor scaling becomes more difficult and costly, advanced packaging has become one of the most important paths for extending Moore's Law. Technologies such as...

Tuesday 1 September 2026
Chinese OSAT earnings surge on AI packaging demand, but recurring profit tells a narrower story
Five listed Chinese outsourced semiconductor assembly and test providers reported first-half 2026 results in the last two weeks of August, showing net profit growth of up to 317%,...
Monday 31 August 2026
Gudeng sees double-digit advanced packaging growth from 2027
Demand for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) continues to drive semiconductor process development, with advanced nodes and advanced packaging entering a new cycle of capacity...
Monday 31 August 2026
TSMC tackles the AI I/O wall with two COUPE bandwidth paths and deeper heterogeneous integration
TSMC is sharpening its silicon photonics (SiPh) roadmap to address the widening gap between AI compute growth and chip-to-chip data movement, unveiling two bandwidth-scaling paths...
Monday 31 August 2026
ASE: CPO scale-out demands deeper supply-chain coordination for mass production
SEMICON Taiwan 2026 kicked off its pre-show program with the Silicon Photonics Global Summit.
Monday 31 August 2026
Shanghai's 15th Five-Year Plan bets on chips, AI, advanced packaging
On August 26, the Shanghai municipal government released its 15th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Strategic Emerging Industries, setting a target for added value in strategic...
Monday 31 August 2026
South Korea risks 'HBM 2.0' trap in emerging CPO market
Co-packaged optics (CPO) is emerging as a critical next-generation technology for AI infrastructure, but unless South Korea strengthens its integration and validation capabilities,...
Monday 31 August 2026
Weekly news roundup: US pressures Korea chip investment, MediaTek wins Google TPU, Apple debuts 2nm M6
Semiconductor investment, AI chips, advanced packaging and data center infrastructure dominated the week, with South Korea facing US pressure, India scaling chip manufacturing, and...
Monday 31 August 2026
India roundup: India broadens semiconductor and AI ambitions across manufacturing, design, materials and data centers
India's semiconductor ambitions are expanding from packaging and testing to chip design, materials, mobile devices and data centers. New investments by CG Power, Infineon, Foxconn,...
Monday 31 August 2026
Podcast highlights: Xiaomi's 3nm chip cap, HBM in Malaysia, and Nvidia's margin tradeoff
Can Xiaomi's in-house chip reach 2nm? Is HBM rerouting to Malaysia TSMC giving Intel a pass? Can Nvidia hold a 75% gross margin or protect market share? Ahead of Apple's September...