Dr. Luc Van den hove, president and CEO of Belgian research institute imec, used his keynote at SEMICON Taiwan 2025 to call for a global push toward "super-fueled innovation" as the semiconductor industry faces mounting demands from artificial intelligence (AI), rising energy consumption, and shifting geopolitical currents.
SK Hynix has announced it is the first in the world to establish a mass production system for sixth-generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM4), signaling the start of a new technological arms race in next-generation memory chips.
Intel has secured another high-profile backer. Following earlier commitments from SoftBank and the U.S. government, Nvidia has announced a US$5 billion investment in Intel, buying shares at US$23.28 each. The move directly contradicts CEO Jensen Huang's dismissal in March of rumors that his company might take a stake in Intel.
NVIDIA has announced it will invest US$5 billion in Intel, purchasing shares at US$23.28 each. The move surprised no one in the semiconductor and PC industries.
Transcom, a specialist in high-power amplifiers, is making bold strides into the dual frontiers of national defense and space communications. Leveraging its deep expertise in compound semiconductor technologies such as gallium arsenide (GaAs) and gallium nitride (GaN), the company is expanding the application of its amplifier technology to address both pressing geopolitical demands and the rapidly growing low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite market.
China's Ministry of Commerce has announced a sweeping anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation into certain analog ICs imported from the US, in a move widely seen as both a retaliatory response to recent US tariff extensions and a strategic effort to bolster its domestic chip industry.
