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Saturday 9 May 2026

Samsung accelerates Pyeongtaek fab expansion as memory supercycle builds

Samsung Electronics is reportedly moving up construction of the final production line at its Pyeongtaek semiconductor campus, accelerating one of its largest capacity-expansion projects...

Saturday 9 May 2026

China's robots move from half-marathon to triathlon

Chinese robots, which recently demonstrated their ability to complete a half-marathon, are now entering a new stage of competition. The focus is shifting from flat-ground endurance...

Saturday 9 May 2026

Adata sees DRAM, NAND prices rise 40% in 2Q26

Adata said DRAM and NAND flash contract prices will each climb more than 40% in the second quarter of 2026, as supply is kept tight by cloud server giants that have already locked...

Saturday 9 May 2026

Global semiconductor market faces shortages as AI demand strains supply chains

Since the second half of 2025, the global semiconductor industry has been squeezed by a rare convergence of forces: surging artificial...

Friday 8 May 2026

US president considers inviting Nvidia and other CEOs to China trade talks

CEOs from Nvidia and other American tech companies are among those that the US government plans to invite to join President Donald Trump's visit to China next week. Along with the...

Friday 8 May 2026

LCD monitor panel prices climb again: BOE, TCL CSOT tighten supply amid Taiwan, South Korea cuts

The LCD TV panel inventory replenishment cycle is nearing its end, but LCD monitor panel prices are expected to extend gains in May as...

Friday 8 May 2026

2D NAND shortage spirals after Samsung, Micron, and rivals exit market

Major international NAND manufacturers are gradually exiting the mature-process 2D NAND market, triggering panic buying and a sharp spike in prices. Industry sources suggest the supply...

Friday 8 May 2026

Coherent order backlog reaches 2030: 1.6T optics and 6-inch InP capacity accelerate

Driven by surging AI computing demand and the industry-wide shift toward higher-bandwidth, lower-power network infrastructure, optical communications company Coherent Corp. says customer...

Friday 8 May 2026

Compal partners with Verda to supply liquid-cooled GPU servers for sovereign AI deployments

Compal formed a strategic partnership with European AI cloud provider Verda to accelerate deployment of next-generation AI infrastructure across Europe and the Asia-Pacific region,...

Friday 8 May 2026

China smartphone market and industry, 1Q 2026: 1Q26 shipments fall; cost pressures cloud 2Q26 outlook

Chinese smartphone brands' shipments in the second quarter of 2026 will decrease by 17.8% year-on-year. Smartphone shipments in the Chinese market will decline by 5.4% year-on-year...

Friday 8 May 2026

Commentary: Trump-Xi Summit puts Taiwan's chip industry at center of global politics

US President Donald Trump is expected to visit Beijing on May 14-15 for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. If the trip proceeds...

Friday 8 May 2026

PMIC supplier GMT bets on volume growth over higher prices

Power-management chip maker Global Mixed-Mode Technology, or GMT, said demand conditions in the first quarter of 2026 were stronger than expected, helped by an improved product mix...

Friday 8 May 2026

BenQ Materials bets on CPO and microLED amid optical communications push

BenQ Materials is seeing its diversification begin to pay off as it pushes into co-packaged optics (CPO) and microLED. The polarizer maker said its subsidiary Cenefom's chemical mechanical...

Friday 8 May 2026

Analysis: AMD overtakes Intel in data center revenue as agentic AI revives x86 CPUs

AMD data center revenue surpassed Intel's for the first time in the first quarter of 2026, highlighting how the rise of agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping demand across...

Friday 8 May 2026

Analysis: Samsung's China appliance exit signals Chinese brands' upmarket march

Samsung Electronics remains one of the global capital market's major beneficiaries of the AI memory boom, with its market value briefly surpassing US$1 trillion in May. Yet another...

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