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Thursday 4 June 2026

BOE races Samsung for Gen 8.6 OLED title despite low yield

BOE is preparing to hold a mass-production shipment ceremony for its Gen 8.6 IT OLED line in mid-June, positioning the Chinese display...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Taiwan's green energy industry shifts from manufacturing race to resilience strategy

Taiwan's green energy industry is emerging from more than two decades of boom, retreats, and shakeouts with a different strategic focus. What began as a contest in hardware manufacturing...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Japan's robotics legacy faces a new challenge: commercial success

At the close of his keynote address at the Humanoids Summit in Tokyo, Hiroshi Ishiguro — one of the pioneers of humanoid robotics — offered a candid assessment of the industry's...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Chip test equipment makers hit by FPGA, CPU supply crunch

Semiconductor test equipment makers are facing severe shortages of key components, with lead times for FPGAs, CPUs, GPUs, and driver ICs...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Kioxia weighs new NAND fab as AI demand drives long-term expansion plans

Kioxia is evaluating the construction of a new NAND flash manufacturing facility at its Kitakami site in Iwate Prefecture, aiming for production to begin after 2029-2030 as the company...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Taiwan courts the world's AI startups in a bid to secure chip future

Taiwan is stepping up its efforts to position itself as a global hub for artificial intelligence and semiconductor innovation, deepening ties between international startups and its...

Thursday 4 June 2026

As satellite networks expand, telecom operators gain influence

The race to build space-based internet networks is accelerating. But as thousands of low-Earth orbit satellites enter orbit, a more fundamental question is taking shape: who will control...

Thursday 4 June 2026

Taiwan's Walsin Technology gains pricing power from AI demand

Walsin Technology, one of Taiwan's leading manufacturers of multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs), has notified distributors that it will...

Wednesday 3 June 2026

Micron's HBM4 push signals bigger Nvidia supply role

Micron Technology may supply more HBM4 memory for Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin platform than the market currently expects, as the US memory maker ramps up equipment investment...

Wednesday 3 June 2026

Nvidia and Infineon press supply chain co-design as AI power limits tighten

At the opening day of Computex 2026, Lite-On Technology hosted an AI industry summit under the theme "Powering the AI-driven Future," where DIGITIMES chairman Colley Hwang moderated...

Wednesday 3 June 2026

MediaTek denies rumored EMIB adoption timeline

MediaTek denied a foreign report about a timeline for adopting Intel Corp.'s embedded multi-die interconnect bridge packaging at a recent investor event and said its supply-chain strategy...

Wednesday 3 June 2026

SK Group weighs pausing SK Siltron sale as AI chip demand lifts wafer strategy

SK Group is reportedly placing AI and semiconductors at the center of its next round of business restructuring, prompting a fresh internal review of the strategic value of SK Siltron,...

Wednesday 3 June 2026

Exclusive: SK Group and Foxconn talks could signal deeper Taiwan-Korea AI supply chain ties

COMPUTEX drew major AI supply chain players to Taiwan, and industry sources said SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won was set for a private meeting with Foxconn chairman Young Liu, alongside...

Wednesday 3 June 2026

NAND market hits record as YMTC closes in on global rivals

The global NAND flash memory market reached a record US$46 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2026, driven by AI infrastructure demand, higher enterprise SSD shipments, and...

Wednesday 3 June 2026

EU's EUR20B AI gigafactory ambition faces delays as global rivals surge ahead

The European Union's (EU) plan to mobilize EUR20 billion (US$23.3 billion) for a network of large-scale AI "gigafactories" is running into delays and funding uncertainty, stoking concerns...

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