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Thursday 8 October 2026
Lam Research launches South Korea chip fund after 15,000-chamber milestone
Lam Research is launching its first country-specific semiconductor venture fund in South Korea after shipping its 15,000th locally manufactured processing chamber, deepening its manufacturing...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Hanmi wins rare Samsung order amid US$5 billion chip substrate expansion
South Korea's Hanmi Semiconductor has secured a KRW24.48 billion (approx. US$18.3 million) equipment order from Samsung Electro-Mechanics, a rare deal with a Samsung Group affiliate...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Taiwan bans imports of China-made fiberglass silicone sleeves
Taiwan has ordered a halt to imports of China-made fiberglass silicone sleeves, saying that opening the market to such products would cause a major adverse impact on related indust...
Thursday 8 October 2026
Tokyo Electron eyes record profit on chipmakers' spending boom
Tokyo Electron (TEL) could post an operating profit of about JPY1 trillion (approx. US$6.32 billion) for the fiscal year ending March 2027, up roughly 60% from JPY624.9 billion a year...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Schneider-PTC deal targets industrial AI across the lifecycle
Schneider Electric's roughly US$22.6 billion acquisition of US industrial software developer PTC is more than a bid to expand its computer-aided design (CAD) and product lifecycle...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Towa returns strategic chip packaging production to Japan as AI demand accelerates
Towa plans to build a new factory in Kyoto Prefecture to produce assembly and packaging equipment for advanced semiconductors used in artificial intelligence applications.
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Chicony pushes into robotics data systems as revenue declines
Chicony Electronics said it has entered the supply chain of a US robotics startup, expanding into embodied AI and physical AI as it seeks higher-value markets. The move could strengthen...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Canon courts India's chip projects as toolmakers jostle for an early foothold
India's young chip industry is becoming a contest among the world's largest semiconductor equipment makers, with Canon the latest to declare its interest. The race remains at an early,...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Hua Yang, Zeiss launch COSMA-M for chip metrology
Hua Yang Precision Machinery has teamed up with Zeiss to launch COSMA-M, a high-precision measurement system aimed at the semiconductor metrology market as demand surges from AI, high-performance...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Smaller batteries, smarter roads: Honda tests different EV cost model
The complexity of vehicle economics surrounding surging battery costs has long put the EV industry in a difficult position, caught between power-delivery constraints and energy-efficiency...
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Chunghwa Telecom's Simplified Modular Data Center delivers fast turnkey deployment

As AI applications gradually expand from the cloud to enterprise private clouds, smart factories, logistics centers, and edge nodes, enterprise compute density continues...

Tuesday 6 October 2026
TSMC Texas-Terafab buzz drives Taiwan contractors to move fast
TSMC has not officially announced anything, but Taiwan's semiconductor facility engineering supply chain is already rushing to Texas after reports that the company is discussing a...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
LG lands 5GW North American data center cooling deal
LG Electronics has signed a long-term agreement to supply chillers for data center projects totaling more than 5GW of capacity in the US and Canada, giving the South Korean company...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
ITRI sees hardware, AI, sensing drive quadruped robot rollout
As AI advances rapidly, the robotics industry is evolving from traditional automation equipment into a productivity tool for every industry, Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research...
Tuesday 6 October 2026
China's 15th five-year plan elevates PCB role in AI supply chains
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission have released the 15th Five-Year Plan for the development of the electronic...