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Monday 14 September 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: High NA EUV chips near production, but economics will be the pacemaker
ASML's latest update suggests High NA EUV is no longer confined to laboratory validation. With 10 systems already operating across four customers worldwide, and three more in shipment...
Monday 14 September 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: Taiwanese firms lead in FOPLP as overseas rivals race to catch up
Taiwanese chip packaging firms are advancing fan-out panel-level packaging (FOPLP) and glass-substrate development as AI processors demand ever-larger reticle sizes and more complex...
Monday 14 September 2026
China optical firms target photonics with mixed high-end, lower-cost push
The 2026 China International Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE) closed on September 11. While near-eye display applications such as AR/VR and smart glasses drew attention, vendors' latest...
Monday 14 September 2026
Samsung, Qualcomm deepen 2nm talks as pricing and yield hurdles persist
Samsung Electronics and Qualcomm are expanding discussions over 2nm foundry cooperation, with pricing, yield, and process optimization still unresolved as Samsung seeks to regain a...
Monday 14 September 2026
CPO nears mass production — next battle about interfaces, yield and maintenance
As AI computing bandwidth keeps rising, optical interconnect architectures are moving beyond pluggable optical modules toward near-packaged optics (NPO) and co-packaged optics (CPO)...
Monday 14 September 2026
US finalizes anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on solar imports from India, Indonesia, and Laos
The US Commerce Department on September 11 issued final affirmative determinations in its anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells...
Monday 14 September 2026
AI server tracker: Taiwan ASIC design houses diverge as AI projects enter different revenue cycles
Taiwan's ASIC design-service suppliers all posted year-over-year revenue growth in August 2026, but the underlying figures point to sharply different stages of the custom-silicon c...
Monday 14 September 2026
Hiroca revenue jumps 35% as auto summer slowdown fades

Hiroca reported August consolidated revenue of NT$503 million (approx. US$16.0 million), up 35.81% from a month earlier and 10.19% from...

Monday 14 September 2026
Shihlin Electric eyes orders through 2029 as T4 plant starts in 2027

Shihlin Electric is bullish on continued growth in heavy electrical equipment and energy-related businesses as demand rises for Taiwan...

Monday 14 September 2026
Scaling Photonics: Assembly, Test and Fiber Automation at SEMICON Taiwan
As AI continues to accelerate demand for high-speed optical connectivity, technologies such as silicon photonics, CPO, LPO, NPO and OCS are moving rapidly toward commercial deployment...
Sunday 13 September 2026
AI server tracker: Taiwan optics race beyond 1.6T

Taiwan's optical communications supply chain is entering a more consequential phase of the AI infrastructure cycle. Demand is broadening...

Saturday 12 September 2026
Murata targets mass production of its AI power substrate next year
Murata Manufacturing plans to begin mass production next year of iPaS, the power substrate it has spent several years developing for AI chips, a step that would carry the world's largest...
Saturday 12 September 2026
ViTrox sees chip inspection moving upstream as advanced packaging raises defect costs
Advanced packaging is stretching semiconductor inspection in two directions at once: packages are getting larger while the features inside them are getting smaller.
Saturday 12 September 2026
Luxshare eyes AR glasses breakthrough through car HUD model

At the 2026 China International Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE), Luxshare and its lens module unit Luxvisions jointly showcased multiple...

Friday 11 September 2026
CPO startup Ayar Labs raises 2026 funding to US$650 million, adds Wiwynn as investor

Ayar Labs, a co-packaged optics (CPO) startup, has raised an additional US$150 million, bringing the primary capital it has raised so...