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Thursday 1 October 2026
MediaTek TPU orders rise as chip capacity war intensifies
MediaTek's Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) business is still moving steadily higher, but supply-chain sources say the real limit is capacity as chipmakers and cloud service providers...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Micron sees no end to the memory shortage, even after new fabs open in 2028
Micron told investors on September 30 that it cannot say when memory supply will catch up with demand. It expects the shortage to get worse over the next two years, even though additional...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Unimicron expands ABF substrate capacity with NT$10B Hukou land deal
Unimicron has moved again to ease tight ABF substrate supply, buying a Hukou site from Bridgestone Taiwan for more than NT$10 billion (US$313.65 million). The deal highlights how AI...
Thursday 1 October 2026
AI chip packaging demand meets labor pushback: ASE's NT$5.6B Taiwan snack factory deal sparks strike vote
ASE Technology Holding (ASEH) announced on July 30 that it would spend roughly NT$5.67 billion (approx. US$177.97 million) to acquire land and factory buildings in the Zhongli Industrial...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Jabil targets 24% growth in FY27 as AI hardware ramp reshapes business
Jabil's fourth quarter of fiscal 2026 marked the point at which AI data-center hardware became the clear center of gravity for the US contract manufacturer. Revenue for the three months...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Qualcomm says PC chip shortages are manageable; price swings hit harder
Qualcomm's senior vice president and general manager of the compute and gaming business, Kedar Kondap, said the biggest challenge facing the PC industry is not component shortages,...
Thursday 1 October 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: Agentic AI shifts inference bottleneck to token control and task quality
DIGITIMES Intelligence observes that AI applications are moving through a clear progression: from early classification AI focused on feature recognition, to generative AI capable of...
Thursday 1 October 2026
ASIC shipments top GPUs in 2027 as ABF substrate bottlenecks shift
The high-end cloud AI accelerator market will see a structural shift in 2027, with total ASIC shipments surpassing GPU shipments for the first time, driven by rising output from Google,...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
'I tell myself every day it'll ease': Phison CEO sees years of memory shortage
Phison Electronics CEO Pua Khein-Seng says he tells himself every day that the memory shortage will ease tomorrow. In reality, he says, AI-driven demand has opened a gap between memory...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Taiwan identifies electricity supply as national strength, with plans to expand gas and green energy
As power infrastructure is now widely regarded as the foundation of a nation's strength, Taiwan is accelerating investment in gas-fired generation, green energy and energy storage...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Leisure vehicles become Eurocharm's largest segment with capacity expanding in Vietnam, North America
Taiwan's Eurocharm Holdings, an OEM automotive and motorcycle parts maker, said at an earnings call on September 29 that leisure vehicles had become its largest product segment, as...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
ByteDance makes up a fifth of China's AI data center capacity amid growing buildout
ByteDance occupies around a fifth of data center capacity in China, according to a recent report. This makes the company the largest customer for rented compute in the country at a...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
NSIG chair exit brings leadership succession into focus
National Silicon Industry Group (NSIG) chairman Haitao Jiang has resigned from all positions at the company, prompting the Shanghai-listed semiconductor materials supplier to begin...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
China's generative AI user base tops 700 million, driving adoption into manufacturing and humanoid robots
Generative AI adoption in China continues to expand. The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said in its 2026 Generative AI Application Development Report, released on...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Commentary: What risks does China's DRAM capacity face amid tightening market?
China's continued expansion of DRAM capacity has raised a key question for the global memory market: will supply and demand flip?