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Tuesday 7 July 2026

Exclusive: Geckos bets on AI materials beyond nano copper powders and CPO waveguides

As generative AI drives rapid growth in high-performance computing (HPC) demand, the semiconductor industry is shifting from process-node competition to materials competition. Geckos...

Monday 6 July 2026

South Korea lines up US$204 billion Yeongnam manufacturing push

South Korean conglomerates will invest a combined KRW312 trillion (approx. US$203.6 billion) in the Yeongnam region, as the government...

Monday 6 July 2026

India's chip mission enters harder phase: deciding where to compete

India's plan to sharply expand public funding for semiconductors marks a new phase in its chip ambitions. The harder question is whether New Delhi can now decide where it wants to...

Monday 6 July 2026

Europe's defense boom has a semiconductor problem

Europe's defense industry is running into a structural bottleneck: the semiconductors needed for modern missiles, drones, radar, communications, and electronic warfare cannot be produced...

Sunday 5 July 2026

Component inflation weighs on manufacturing momentum as Taiwan PMI growth moderates

Surging demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) used in AI servers has driven shortages and sharp price increases for conventional memory, while microcontroller (MCU) suppliers have...

Friday 3 July 2026

South Korea bets on southwest semiconductor cluster, but key hurdles remain

South Korea on June 29 unveiled a large-scale investment plan for the country's Honam region in the southwest, which mainly covers the city of Gwangju and North and South Jeolla provinces,...

Thursday 2 July 2026

BOE, Chinese panel makers' chip push tightens the squeeze on South Korea

China's display makers, led by BOE Technology (BOE), are pushing deeper into semiconductors, with BOE advancing glass substrates, and...

Thursday 2 July 2026

GIS pivots to semiconductors and optics as memory shortages hit touch demand

Touch module maker General Interface Solution Holding (GIS) said the second half of 2026 will be more challenging as global memory...

Thursday 2 July 2026

IBM's 0.7nm chip claim revives debate over semiconductor node naming

As semiconductor manufacturing enters the 2nm era, conventional transistor scaling is approaching its physical limits. On June 25,...

Wednesday 1 July 2026

AI fuels OSAT pricing power as chip packaging orders fill through 2027

Cloud AI demand is reshaping the seasonal cycle of the semiconductor industry, with capacity tightness spreading from front-end manufacturing to back-end packaging and testing. Since...

Wednesday 1 July 2026

AI chip complexity stretches electronic materials order windows to six months, DuPont spinoff warns

As the AI wave drives rapid growth across the global semiconductor industry, the upstream electronic materials supply chain has become...

Wednesday 1 July 2026

SK Hynix talent hunt targets HBM's next frontiers while drawing Samsung employees' attention

SK Hynix's latest senior hiring drive has reignited debate in South Korea's semiconductor industry, with the move seen as more than...

Tuesday 30 June 2026

AI super cycle lifts semiconductors, but China chip group warns of a distorted boom

AI has pushed the global semiconductor industry into a new "super cycle," but the AI boom is also creating distorted demand, tighter...

Tuesday 30 June 2026

South Korea looks to Taiwan as model for semiconductor decentralization

South Korea is overhauling its semiconductor manufacturing footprint to secure an edge in the AI era, drawing direct inspiration from a fierce competitor: Taiwan.

Tuesday 30 June 2026

Riken and Taiwan academia join forces on next-gen compound semiconductors

Japan's world-renowned Riken institute announced in late March 2026 that its homegrown superconducting quantum computer, "Ei-II," jointly developed with the University of Osaka, had...

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