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Wednesday 16 September 2026
AI efficiency fuels Jevons Paradox debate over HBM demand
As artificial intelligence (AI) models move from answering questions to autonomously completing multi-step tasks, OpenAI's new model GPT-6 Astra, or Astra, is drawing fresh market...
Wednesday 16 September 2026
Altera confidentially files for US IPO as AI chip demand fuels listing boom

Altera, the programmable-chip maker backed by Silver Lake and Intel, has confidentially filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in the...

Wednesday 16 September 2026
US-based Teradyne opens Bengaluru office to support India's semiconductor push
Teradyne has opened a new office in Bengaluru as India expands its chipmaking ambitions, which could affect supply chains, pricing, and manufacturing capacity worldwide. The move gives...
Wednesday 16 September 2026
Interview: Forget transistors — speed is what's choking the chip supply chain, says Qnity exec
The global surge in AI demand is accelerating change across the semiconductor industry, and as Moore's Law scaling faces physical limits, chipmaking is no longer only about shrinking...
Wednesday 16 September 2026
Commentary: China's US$4.5 trillion electronics target confronts the limits of manufacturing scale

Where will China's electronics manufacturing industry find growth over the next five years? The answer is taking shape in the 15th Five-Year...

Wednesday 16 September 2026
Taiwan can power its AI chip boom — but not with green energy
DIGITIMES Intelligence observes that discussions at the semiconductor sustainability and energy forum during SEMICON Taiwan 2026 centered on two questions: whether Taiwan will have...
Wednesday 16 September 2026
As AI data centers hit a transmission wall, GlobalFoundries pushes into silicon photonics
At the China International Optoelectronics Expo (CIOE), a palm-sized metal transceiver represents the shift from copper to light in data center infrastructure, one of the biggest transformations...
Wednesday 16 September 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: Taiwan's small IC design firms face a weaker second half after rebound

Taiwan's smaller IC design firms posted a strong revenue recovery in the first half of 2026, but the gains may prove difficult to extend...

Wednesday 16 September 2026
AI data centers give idle EV battery capacity a second life

Slowing EV growth in North America, tariffs, and policy restrictions are pushing automakers and battery suppliers to repurpose idle...

Wednesday 16 September 2026
Amodei's AI slowdown call is unlikely to dent chip demand, industry sources say

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to slow frontier AI development has stirred debate over safety, but chip industry sources say global...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
How AI real-world deployment is rewriting IPC business models
Mega-construction projects currently underway across the US, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan are heavily concentrated in two main sectors: semiconductor fabs and automated warehousing/logistics...
Tuesday 15 September 2026
Murata considers bigger MLCC expansion as AI server demand extends beyond 2028

Murata Manufacturing is considering a new, potentially larger expansion of multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) capacity beyond its existing...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
AI servers are eating MLCC capacity, Chinese suppliers are taking what's left

AI servers are reshaping the global multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) market. Murata Manufacturing and Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEMCO)...

Tuesday 15 September 2026
Interview: Corning sees CPO, glass core as new semiconductor battlegrounds

As artificial intelligence applications accelerate, surging global semiconductor demand is pushing advanced packaging, co-packaged optics...