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2026-06-15
memeburn.com
2026-06-15
Memeburn
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Nvidia hired Bruce Andrews, Intel's former government affairs chief and Obama-era Commerce Department official, as its new Chief External Affairs Officer.
The chipmaker's lobbying expenditures surged from $640,000 in 2024 to nearly $5 million in 2025, roughly a 670% increase.
Andrews' appointment comes amid tighter US chip export controls, a June 2026 crackdown on Chinese subsidiary loophol
2026-06-15
digitimes.com
2026-06-15
Walsin Technology expects the tight supply of passive components could last into 2028, as demand from AI infrastructure, automotive electronics, and future device upgrades lifts orders while memory shortages weigh on shipments across the broader electronics supply chain.
2026-06-15
digitimes.com
2026-06-15
Samsung Electronics' foundry division chief told employees on June 12 that a return to profitability in the contract chipmaking business looks difficult next year, with 2028 emerging as a more likely timeline, Yonhap, ZDNet Korea,and Chosunreported.
2026-06-15
digitimes.com
2026-06-15
As global semiconductor supply chains are rebuilt, Southeast Asia is evolving from a back-end test-and-pack region into a resilient, multi-center advanced packaging and equipment ecosystem, according to industry participants. Migration drivers include pushes for local production and service, faster ramps for AI chip capacity, and customer demands for supply chain resilience amid de-Americanization
2026-06-15
digitimes.com
2026-06-15
Tsang Yow is preparing to broaden its manufacturing footprint in Malaysia, a move that could help global semiconductor supply chains become more regional, resilient, and tariff-proof. The drivetrain systems maker expects trial production at the new plant before the end of 2026, as demand tied to artificial intelligence and advanced chips reshapes sourcing patterns worldwide.
2026-06-15
digitimes.com
2026-06-15
LG Innotek plans to invest more than KRW1 trillion in a new semiconductor substrate plant in Haiphong, Vietnam, reflecting rising demand for substrates used in AI servers, 5G smartphones, and on-device AI chips. The expansion targets RF-SiP, FC-CSP, and FC-BGA substrates, as substrate suppliers adjust capacity plans to stronger demand from advanced mobile devices and AI infrastructure.
2026-06-15
digitimes.com
2026-06-15
Samsung Electronics announced that its Exynos 2600 mobile application processor delivered more than double the on-device AI performance of the Exynos 2500, according to benchmark results released in June 2026. The company said the chip, manufactured on a 2nm foundry process and slated for Galaxy S26 standard and Plus models in early 2026, showed broad gains across natural language processing and i
2026-06-15
digitimes.com
2026-06-15
South Korea's semiconductor equipment supply chain saw a material pickup in orders in the first half of 2026 as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix accelerated investment in advanced DRAM and high-bandwidth memory (HBM4), generating demand across front-end tools, advanced packaging, and inspection equipment. The shift toward high-end process and packaging capabilities for AI memory has driven new con
2026-06-15
semiengineering.com
2026-06-15
Ed Sperling
Chip and system designers scramble to leverage existing and future standards as edge AI...
2026-06-15
digitimes.com
2026-06-15
Tata Electronics' planned US$11 billion semiconductor fab in Dholera, Gujarat, has become the anchor of India's front-end chip manufacturing ambitions. The project, supported by technology from Taiwan's PSMC, has also drawn a strategic partnership with Dutch lithography equipment supplier ASML.
2026-06-15
digitimes.com
2026-06-15
China has allowed the release of a fresh supply of indium phosphide (InP) substrates, which are under export controls. A first 2026 batch shipped at the end of May following an earlier release in 2025, easing a capacity bottleneck in the optical communications market. Taiwanese compound semiconductor suppliers including Visual Photonics Epitaxy (VPEC) and Global Communication Semiconductors (GCS)
2026-06-15
digitimes.com
2026-06-15
Taiwan's listed semiconductor and electronics companies posted robust revenue growth in May 2026, with the latest monthly data revealing a widening split between AI infrastructure beneficiaries and legacy consumer electronics players. The five-month cumulative picture through May underscores a structural reordering of the sector's top earners, led by server and AI hardware demand.
2026-06-15
digitimes.com
2026-06-15
Taiwan's fabless semiconductor design sector posted its strongest year-over-year growth figures in years as of May 2026, with a cluster of memory-adjacent and storage chip makers leading a recovery that is both remarkable in scale and strikingly uneven in distribution. Of the 105 companies tracked, 69 reported positive accumulated year-over-year growth through May, but the top performers are lappi
2026-06-15
www.digitaltrends.com
2026-06-15
Digital Trends
Making chips smaller has dominated the semiconductor conversation for years, but TSMC’s next big leap may come from how those chips are packaged instead. According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the company is developing a new Chip-on-Panel-on-Substrate, or CoPoS, technology that promises lower manufacturing costs while delivering better performance for future AI processors.
TSMC’s CoPoS packaging coul
2026-06-15
simplywall.st
2026-06-15
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Japan/Semiconductors/TSE:8035
Is Tokyo Electron (TSE:8035) Quietly Redefining Its Chiplet Strategy With Teradyne Test Integration?
June 14, 2026
Simply Wall St
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In June 2026, Teradyne announced an integrated test cell solution for AI and data center chips that combines its UltraFLEXplus platform with Tokyo Electron’s Prexa SDP prober to enable high-qualit
2026-06-14
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2026-06-14
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NVIDIA STOCK HOLDS NEAR $5 TRILLION AS CHINA VERA CHIP PUSH AND AI BENCHMARK PUT NVDA IN FOCUS
BY MATEUSZ KACZMAREK
New York, June 14, 2026, 11:03 EDT
Nvidia ended Friday at $205.19, up 0.16%, leaving its market value at about $5.0 trillion and its price-to-earnings ratio near 31, a valuation measure comparing sha
2026-06-14
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2026-06-14
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2026-06-14
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Capacity Expansion Focus: Social media conversations center on TSMC's aggressive plans to construct multiple new fabrication facilities each year. Analysts note the firm's target of six-figure monthly wafer output by 2029 amid sustained high demand.
Supply Constraints Persist: Recent commentary emphasizes that TSMC's Arizona plant remains fully booked through 2027, with big tech clients continuin
2026-06-14
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2026-06-14
Yahoo Finance
Forget the Chip Itself. Nvidia’s Own CEO Says the Real Moat Is Somewhere Else
Jeremy Phillips
Sun, June 14, 2026 at 5:44 AM PDT 4 min read
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NVDA posted $81.6B in Q1 revenue, led by Data Center Networking up 199% YoY. This serves as proof that customers buy full platform ecosystems, not just silicon.
CFO Colette Kress noted softwar
2026-06-14
247wallst.com
2026-06-14
24/7 Wall St.
Jensen Huang spent most of NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA | NVDA Price Prediction)’s Q1 FY27 earnings call on May 20, 2026 doing something unusual for a chip CEO: arguing that the chip itself is no longer the company’s most important asset.
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His core line: “Agentic AI has arrived, doing productive work, generating real value and scaling rapidly across companies and industries. NVIDIA is uniquely