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Friday 7 August 2026
Raydium sees slower third-quarter momentum after smartphone OLED DDI pull-ins
Raydium Semiconductor said its third-quarter 2026 momentum is likely to ease after customers pulled in orders for smartphone OLED display driver ICs in the second quarter. The Taiwan-based...
Friday 7 August 2026
AP Memory secures PSMC, ASE capacity ahead of 2027 IPD ramp

Memory IC designer AP Memory posted higher revenue and profit in the second quarter and expects to enter a new growth cycle beginning...

Friday 7 August 2026
Controlled scarcity: MP Materials builds America's rare earth answer while China keeps the heavies at home
MP Materials' second quarter is best read as a status report on an industrial contest. On the one hand, China has tightened its grip on the parts of the rare earth chain that matter...
Friday 7 August 2026
US optical transceiver ban risks slowing AI data center build-out
A proposed US ban on new Chinese optical transceivers could disrupt the build-out of AI data centers before Western suppliers have enough capacity to replace Chinese production, raising...
Friday 7 August 2026
Exclusive: STATS ChipPAC readies broad packaging price hikes on AI-driven OSAT squeeze

AI chip demand is sustaining a global rise in semiconductor packaging and testing prices, with STATS ChipPAC preparing a broad round...

Friday 7 August 2026
Inside Terafab: Musk's US$16.8B bet to turn AI chip shortages into a homegrown supply chain

Elon Musk's ambitions across AI, robotics and space infrastructure are moving into a new phase following the unveiling of Terafab,...

Friday 7 August 2026
Panel makers turn old fabs into AI-advanced packaging hubs

AI-driven demand for advanced packaging is giving old-generation panel fabs and equipment new value. As Taiwan's panel makers accelerate...

Friday 7 August 2026
Nokia's NXP Arizona fab buy signals AI optical bottleneck shifting upstream

Nokia is moving deeper into semiconductor manufacturing by acquiring NXP's Chandler fabrication campus in Arizona, signaling that the...

Friday 7 August 2026
Microsoft launches fourth cloud region in India as AI demand accelerates
Microsoft has opened its India South Central cloud region in Hyderabad, expanding local capacity for customers in one of the world's fastest-growing digital markets. The move could...
Friday 7 August 2026
Nvidia tests leaner Rubin Ultra memory designs with 2027 HBM supply in question
Nvidia is testing sharply lower-memory versions of its next-generation Rubin Ultra GPU, a sign that the worsening high-bandwidth memory (HBM) shortage is beginning to reshape the specifications...
Friday 7 August 2026
Analysis: Five years of US polysilicon imports show why Washington set the price floor at $21
US imports of high-purity polysilicon jumped to US$190 million in 2025. Still, the bigger story is in the volume: 6,791 tonnes, more than five times the 1,286 tonnes imported in 2024,...
Friday 7 August 2026
Analysis: Trump’s polysilicon tariffs split solar industry into winners and losers
US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on August 6 imposing minimum import prices and a 15% tariff on polysilicon and its derivatives, a move that hands a durable pricing...
Friday 7 August 2026
Chinese optical suppliers confront FCC threat after US$19.1B sell-off

Chinese optical transceiver suppliers are trying to calm investors after reports that the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) may...

Friday 7 August 2026
NEO seeks partner by end-2026 for fivefold-density X-SRAM

AI memory startup NEO Semiconductor has unveiled X-SRAM, a new architecture designed to address the difficulty of scaling conventional...

Friday 7 August 2026
Huawei's Richard Yu warns of smartphone price hikes as memory costs soar
Huawei executive director and Consumer Business Group chairman Richard Yu warned on August 5 that sharply rising memory costs could trigger widespread smartphone price increases, saying...