Copper clad laminate (CCL) maker Iteq held its 2026 annual general meeting on Thursday, with Chairman Dennis Chen saying that the continued deepening of generative AI applications, faster cloud computing and data center expansion, and steady growth in demand from new energy-related industries are boosting demand for high-end electronic materials and high-frequency, high-speed printed circuit board (PCB) markets.

South Korean AI chip startup FuriosaAI has announced a partnership with Broadcom to develop a next-generation AI inference platform aimed at large-scale agentic AI deployments, as demand grows for infrastructure optimized for AI reasoning and high-volume inference workloads.

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has unveiled its industry-first automated panel-level packaging (PLP) system, a development poised to reshape global artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing supply chains by significantly improving chip integration speeds and manufacturing efficiency for AI data centers and cloud infrastructure providers.

As Moore's Law nears its limits, Huawei is promoting its "Tau (τ) Law" as a post-Moore chip framework that shifts the focus from nanometer process nodes to shorter signal transmission times across electronic systems.

ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China's top DRAM maker, has been cleared by China's securities regulator for its highly anticipated IPO, which could raise funds worth CNY29.5 billion (approx. US$4.4 billion) for the company. The Shanghai Stock Exchange said on May 27 that it had cleared a listing review for its STAR Board.

Solidigm, the enterprise storage brand under SK Hynix, announced a leadership reshuffle this spring, naming two executives as co-chief executive officers to divide responsibilities between global operations and commercial growth. One co-CEO was appointed in March 2026, and the other took office on May 1, with leadership stating the change aims to accelerate product execution and business performance amid rising demand for storage driven by artificial intelligence.

During the 2026 Europe Day Dinner, Taiwanese President Ching-te Lai referenced how coal and steel formed the foundation of peace in Europe, comparing that to how semiconductors and AI shape global prosperity and democratic security for Taiwan. He said Taiwan's semiconductor ecosystem integrates critical technologies from leading European companies, praising the nature of like-minded partners working together toward shared goals.

SK Hynix is using Big Tech's rush to secure artificial intelligence (AI) memory supply as leverage for tougher long-term contracts, while resisting funding structures that could give major customers influence over its fabs or equipment.

Nvidia's plan to launch Rubin CPX, an inference-focused graphics processing unit for its Vera Rubin platform, has become increasingly uncertain as supply-chain activity around the product appears to have stalled, according to The Elec.

China has brought AI chips into its national security and reliability evaluation framework for the first time, turning what looks like a product certification process into something more consequential: an emerging gatekeeping system for AI computing infrastructure.