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Monday 21 September 2026
Tower Semiconductor to make Japan its largest optical chip base

Tower Semiconductor plans to make Japan its largest manufacturing base for optical communications semiconductors after expanding silicon...

Monday 21 September 2026
Z.ai's ZCode crisis exposes AI coding's enterprise trust gap
Chinese AI developer Z.ai has open-sourced its ZCode coding tool and is preparing a zero-data-retention option for its Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform after ZCode was found packaging...
Monday 21 September 2026
Chinese image sensor maker GalaxyCore raises the stakes in high-end CIS
GalaxyCore Inc. plans to raise up to CNY4.2 billion (US$627 million) to expand 12-inch CMOS image sensor (CIS) capacity and develop 100MP and 200MP sensors, doubling down on higher-value...
Monday 21 September 2026
China sets first national perovskite solar testing standard

China has introduced its first national standard for perovskite photovoltaics, a move...

Monday 21 September 2026
Acer taps local health data to build sovereign healthcare AI

Acer Medical said Taiwan's and South Korea's long-standing health insurance and medical...

Monday 21 September 2026
DB HiTek gains pricing power as 8-inch supply tightens

South Korea's DB HiTek is gaining pricing power as tightening 8-inch foundry supply, high utilization, and stronger demand for power-management...

Monday 21 September 2026
China monitor market splits as commercial demand holds up, premium displays gain ground

China's PC monitor market is entering a period of sharper structural divergence, with commercial demand offsetting part of a weakening...

Monday 21 September 2026
CXMT closes in on DRAM leaders with G5 process breakthrough

China's CXMT has begun mass production of its fifth-generation DRAM platform, or G5, claiming process capabilities comparable with the...

Monday 21 September 2026
Weekly news roundup: AI boom strains chips; Google's TPUs pay off, China eyes 3nm without EUV
This week's reports centered on intensifying competition and bottlenecks across the semiconductor and AI supply chains, from Sandisk's unusual engineering push in Korea and Google's...
Monday 21 September 2026
Samsung reportedly cuts QD TV output 80% as Neo QLED phaseout looms

Samsung Electronics will reportedly slash quantum-dot (QD) LCD TV production in 2026 to 2 million to 3 million units, down as much as...

Monday 21 September 2026
CHT completes 4th Taiwan-Matsu subsea cable, boosting offshore resilience

Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) announced on September 18 that the nearly 300km-long Taiwan-Matsu submarine cable has been completed, landed,...

Monday 21 September 2026
ACM Research's Shanghai unit leans on overseas installs, panel-level plating for its next leg of growth

ACM Research Shanghai is staking its growth case on two developments: planned tool installations at customers outside mainland China...

Sunday 20 September 2026
AI capacity crunch drives up consumer tech costs, deepening China's deflation
Surging AI server demand is reshaping consumer electronics. Memory costs have risen sharply this year, prompting Huawei, Oppo, Xiaomi and Apple to raise prices on some smartphones...
Sunday 20 September 2026
Foxconn joins Quantron, Hongjing Drive in zero-emission commercial vehicle partnership

German commercial vehicle company Quantron and China's Hongjing Drive have formally agreed to establish a joint venture, Quantron China,...

Saturday 19 September 2026
MediaTek, Vivo bring 30B MoE models on-device in next AI phone race

MediaTek's new Dimensity 9600 Pro puts agentic AI at the center of its flagship smartphone strategy, supporting on-device mixture-of-experts...