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Aug 5
AMD says server CPU market to hit US$220B by 2030

AMD expects the market for server central processing units (CPUs) to reach approximately US$220 billion by 2030, up from an estimate of more than US$120 billion three months earlier, as the company sees agentic artificial intelligence (AI) creating a new class of CPU-intensive workloads.

ASIP Technologies will focus its Visakhapatnam semiconductor facility on flip-chip ball grid array packaging as it works toward volume production in the fourth quarter of 2027, Managing Director and CEO Venkata Simhadri told DIGITIMES.
NEO Semiconductor has launched NEO.AI, a memory platform it says could help address one of the biggest constraints on artificial intelligence (AI) systems worldwide: limited memory. The company says the technology is intended to improve AI performance, scalability, and efficiency as models grow larger and more demanding across global markets.

Anthropic is building an in-house team to design custom chips for its Claude AI models, according to Reuters, moving ahead with a plan first reported in April as the startup responds to a shortage of processors needed to run and develop more advanced AI systems.

Nanya Technology's board of directors approved several resolutions on August 5, including a plan to accelerate capacity build-out at its new Fab 5A by raising its 2026 capital expenditure to no more than NT$69.7 billion (approx. US$2.16 billion) from the earlier estimate of NT$52 billion, a roughly 34% increase. The board also approved participation in the bidding process for a testing facility to expand backend packaging and testing capacity.
Samsung Electronics' foundry arm is stepping up sales of its 5nm process as its more advanced 4nm capacity is expected to remain fully booked through 2027, driven by HBM4 base-die production and Nvidia inference-chip orders, according to ZDNet Korea, which cited semiconductor industry officials.

Apple's attempt to use China's ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) as leverage against Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix has backfired. The two Korean chipmakers now hold stronger, not weaker, negotiating power over DRAM supply, according to South Korean and Chinese trade press.

SpaceX's first quarterly earnings release has offered fresh evidence that Starlink's expansion is moving beyond subscriber growth and into a more hardware-intensive phase, strengthening expectations that next-generation satellite networks and direct-to-device services will raise demand for higher-power radio-frequency components.

Machvision reported consolidated revenue of about NT$359 million (US$11.1 million) in July 2026, a record monthly high that was up 1.28% from June and 31.84% from a year earlier. The Taiwan-based inspection equipment maker said order visibility remained healthy, with some high-end products already booked several quarters ahead as demand ran stronger than in 2025.
Sandisk closed its fiscal 2026 with record revenue, gross margin, and earnings per share. Still, the bigger story for investors is how much of the company's future business is now locked into long-term contracts, according to the company's fourth-quarter earnings call on August 5, 2026.
At its fiscal fourth-quarter 2026 earnings call on August 5, Western Digital (WD) laid out a near-term growth strategy centered on higher-capacity hard disk drives and multiyear customer contracts, even as executives acknowledged a quarter-on-quarter slowdown in exabyte shipment growth.
Sandisk reported fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2026 results on August 5 that underscore how thoroughly artificial intelligence (AI) demand has reshaped the NAND flash memory business, with the company's data center segment emerging as its primary growth engine and management locking in tens of billions of dollars in multi-year customer commitments to protect against the industry's traditionally volatile pricing cycles.