Given the steady demand for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) chips, Unimicron stated that orders for IC substrates and PCBs have picked up. This has not only steadily increased capacity utilization rates, but the company has also negotiated with customers for ABF and BT substrates to gradually reflect rising raw material costs. These factors drove a marked improvement in operations in the fourth quarter of 2025, with single-quarter profits surpassing the combined total of the previous three quarters.

China IC design firm Rockchip is facing an open-source licensing dispute after GitHub reportedly froze code repositories linked to its projects, drawing attention across the semiconductor and software industries to open-source compliance risks.

Taiwan's IC packaging and testing supply chain is accelerating expansion as Sigurd announced it will invest NT$1.54 billion (approx. US$49M) to purchase a factory in the Hukou Industrial Park from major IC substrate maker Unimicron. The facility will serve as Sigurd's second Hukou plant, slated to begin operations in 2H26 alongside its existing site to jointly support customer needs.

China is preparing a fivefold increase in domestic advanced logic chip output within one to two years to support its expanding AI computing infrastructure, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Nikkei Asia.

Walsin Technology Corporation announced plans to invest JPY508 million (US$3.27 million) to increase its shareholding in Japan's Matsuo Electric, a move the passive components maker says will support product expansion and strengthen the two companies' partnership.

Benefiting from a continued increase in high-end process non-recurring engineering (NRE) projects, Progate Group Corporation (PGC) reported fourth-quarter 2025 revenue of NT$415 million (US$13.21 million), down 10.2% from the previous quarter but surging 107.1% year over year, marking the company's second-highest quarterly revenue on record. Full-year 2025 revenue reached a record NT$1.35 billion, up 97.8% from 2024, with earnings per share (EPS) climbing to NT$2.06, surpassing the previous year's NT$1.65.

The global multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) market is on the brink of a price surge as Japanese and Korean giants grapple with record demand from AI data centers. Samsung Electro-Mechanics (Semco) is reportedly shifting focus from volume to pricing, while Murata Manufacturing has signaled possible price hikes as early as March 2026.

ChipMOS returned to profitability in 2025 after a fourth-quarter 2025 rebound driven by memory shortages and higher test prices, and the company forecasts a stronger second-half performance in 2026 despite a weaker first quarter. The firm reported its highest quarterly revenue since the third quarter of 2022 and plans significant capital expenditure to expand testing and packaging capacity.

Kaynes Semicon, the semiconductor assembly and test arm of Kaynes Technology India Ltd., has adopted engineering simulation software from Synopsys to strengthen its outsourced semiconductor assembly and testing (OSAT) operations, as part of a broader strategy to expand into advanced chip packaging.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Meta have entered into a multi-year agreement to deploy up to 6 gigawatts of AMD Instinct GPUs to power Meta's next-generation AI data centers, marking one of the largest AI infrastructure partnerships to date and potentially exceeding US$100 billion in value.

Texas Instruments (TI) has raised analog chip prices in 2025, prompting several US and European peers to follow suit with similar increases.