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Friday 5 June 2026
CXMT's South Korean hiring spree puts Samsung, SK Hynix memory lead on alert
More than 200 South Korean engineers are conservatively estimated to be working at CXMT, China's leading DRAM maker, according to industry sources. Chinese semiconductor companies...
Friday 5 June 2026
Memory crunch pushes low-end smartphones toward 2026 breaking point
The global smartphone market performed better than expected in the first quarter of 2026 after some brands pulled forward orders, but shipments still fell by about 3.1% from a year...
Friday 5 June 2026
Commentary: Memory boom driven by DRAM now, but HBM will decide future
AI demand is fueling a broad semiconductor upswing and pushing the memory industry into what many see as a long-awaited super-cycle. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have both reported...
Friday 5 June 2026
Arm says Taiwan powers its rise as agentic AI lifts PC growth
Arm CEO Rene Haas told the COMPUTEX keynote on June 2 that Taiwan has been inseparable from Arm's growth over the past 30 years, while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that agentic AI...
Friday 5 June 2026
TSMC CEO says rising profits mean greater social responsibility, clarifies bonus considerations
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) held its shareholders meeting on June 4, during which CEO C.C. Wei addressed recent talk surrounding its employee bonus system. He...
Friday 5 June 2026
TSMC says AI demand is straining entire supply chain, not just chipmakers
TSMC chairman C.C. Wei said on Wednesday that AI demand is rising so quickly that the whole supply chain is struggling to keep up, with bottlenecks spanning power, chip capacity, equipment,...
Friday 5 June 2026
Hiwin targets logistics automation with Dexterity dual-arm robot
Motion control component maker Hiwin made its first cross-sector appearance at COMPUTEX 2026, showcasing a full technology stack spanning precision transmission, actuator modules,...
Friday 5 June 2026
Hanmi Semiconductor eyes record sales in Computex debut as HBM4 demand grows
Hanmi Semiconductor is projecting record annual revenue this year, as rising demand for high-bandwidth memory equipment lifts prospects for the South Korean chip-equipment maker and...
Friday 5 June 2026
AI energy demand drives a shift to vertical power delivery and smaller modules
As the global demand for AI accelerates, a new industrial challenge has emerged: the sheer scale of energy required to power the "AI factories" of the future. This concern was the...
Friday 5 June 2026
South Korea's only SRAM-CIM IP firm Articron targets edge AI
South Korean semiconductor IP startup Articron is challenging the traditional AI chip design bottleneck by using a memory-centric architecture, with its self-developed SRAM-CIM compute...
Friday 5 June 2026
RTX Spark rekindles memory shortages, TeamGroup shifts to industrial control
Although PC market sales have slumped amid rising memory prices, Nvidia's "N1X" RTX Spark superchip is also fueling hopes for AI PC potential. TeamGroup General Manager Gerry Chen...
Thursday 4 June 2026
Ventec wins spillover high-speed CCL orders, revenue rises
Ventec International said May 2026 revenue kept growing, driven by sustained demand for high-margin aerospace polyimide (PI) materials, the start of mass production after high-speed...
Thursday 4 June 2026
Samsung's rumored CIS production shift highlights industry debate over fab ownership
Samsung Electronics' decision to place a key image sensor production line under its System LSI division highlights a broader question facing the CMOS image sensor (CIS) industry: whether...
Thursday 4 June 2026
TSMC chairman dismisses rival cluster pushes, says Taiwan's supply chain remains unmatched
TSMC chairman C.C. Wei spoke at a media briefing on June 4, 2026, after the company's shareholders' meeting. South Korea's push to build a semiconductor cluster, Arizona's efforts...
Thursday 4 June 2026
Nvidia's Jensen Huang courts Korean giants in robotics expansion

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is visiting South Korea this week as the company seeks to expand its partnerships with major Korean conglomerates...