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Sep 29

TSMC helps VSMC build first Singapore fab in 22 months at lower cost than US

VSMC, the joint venture between Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) and NXP Semiconductors, officially opened its first 12-inch wafer fab in Singapore on September 28, completing construction in just 22 months.

In global semiconductor race, Singapore bets on critical, mature technologies

Sep 29

Column: Why Micron's US$250M venture fund is about more than HBM margins—Taiwan has a stake in it

Sep 29

Beyond 16 layers: HBM stacks test advanced packaging equipment makers

Sep 29

GlobalFoundries eyes GaN expansion to challenge TSMC in AI

Sep 29

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IC DESIGN, DISTRIBUTIONJensen Huang, Lisa Su join Tsinghua University advisory board, putting AI chip leaders closer to Beijing

Sep 30, 14:45

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang and AMD chair and CEO Lisa Su have joined the advisory board of Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management (SEM), putting two of the global AI chip industry's most prominent executives on the Beijing-based body.

PASSIVE, PCB, OTHER IC COMPONENTSNSIG chair exit brings leadership succession into focus

Sep 30, 14:34

National Silicon Industry Group (NSIG) chairman Haitao Jiang has resigned from all positions at the company, prompting the Shanghai-listed semiconductor materials supplier to begin a leadership transition.

PASSIVE, PCB, OTHER IC COMPONENTSSamsung Electro-Mechanics' disclosed 2026 supply agreements total US$2.6 billion as server demand surges

Sep 30, 13:50

Samsung Electro-Mechanics has signed another long-term supply agreement for server components, bringing the value of its disclosed supply agreements this year to about US$2.6 billion as demand for high-performance passive components continues to rise.

MEMORY CHIPSColumn: Memory and logic collide as AI shifts the balance

Sep 30, 13:42

As HBM approaches half the cost of a GPU-HBM CoWoS package, can memory still be viewed as merely a passive component of AI computing? The answer goes back to the "memory wall," a challenge that has shaped nearly half a century of semiconductor development.

MEMORY CHIPSCommentary: What risks does China's DRAM capacity face amid tightening market?

Sep 30, 12:38

China's continued expansion of DRAM capacity has raised a key question for the global memory market: will supply and demand flip?

IC DESIGN, DISTRIBUTIONDeepSeek brings software tools to Huawei's Ascend 950 to take on Nvidia

Sep 30, 12:38

DeepSeek is bringing more of the software used to develop its AI models to Huawei Technologies' Ascend 950 processors, deepening cooperation as Chinese technology companies seek to reduce reliance on Nvidia's hardware and CUDA software ecosystem.

IC MANUFACTURINGVSMC bets on value over cost as Singapore fab builds next-generation R&D and IP capabilities

Sep 30, 12:18

VisionPower Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (VSMC), the joint venture between Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) and NXP Semiconductors, opened its 12-inch wafer fab in Tampines, Singapore, on September 28.

MEMORY CHIPSCXMT's US$5.2 billion buildout deepens China's push for domestic DRAM equipment

Sep 30, 12:13

China's largest dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is accelerating a CNY34.9 billion (US$5.2 billion) expansion aimed at chipmaking equipment, in-house testing and tighter control of its memory supply chain.

IC MANUFACTURINGFoundry 2.0 revenue hits record as growth spreads beyond TSMC

Sep 30, 11:29

Global Foundry 2.0 market revenue reached a record US$96.6 billion in the second quarter of 2026, up 25% year-over-year and 11% sequentially, as semiconductor demand tied to data-center expansion spread beyond leading-edge processors into networking, power management, mature-node chips, packaging and test.

IC MANUFACTURINGLinde secures Sanand land as global materials suppliers race to localize for India's first fabs

Sep 30, 11:27

India's chip push is drawing the materials layer of the supply chain onshore. With Tata Electronics' Dholera fab and a cluster of packaging plants in Sanand under way, suppliers of industrial gases, wet chemicals, and photoresists from the US, Japan, and South Korea are moving to secure positions close to their future customers in Gujarat.

MEMORY CHIPSCXMT expansion meets surging GigaDevice DRAM demand, sharpening China's memory supply-chain buildout

Sep 30, 11:15

CXMT's continued DRAM capacity expansion is coinciding with stronger demand from China's domestic memory sector.

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