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2026-07-10
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A veteran chip engineer turned venture capitalist used a panel at Taipei's Asia VC Summit on Wednesday to challenge two of the semiconductor industry's most fashionable narratives: that AI will solve chip design, and that co-packaged optics (CPO) is ready for prime time.
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Nanya Technology posted record quarterly profit after a more than 60% rise in average DRAM selling prices lifted its gross margin to 79.5%, with the Taiwanese memory chipmaker expecting prices and margins to improve further in the second half.
2026-07-10
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Kioxia and SanDisk have begun shipping samples of 332-layer BiCS10 NAND, giving the Japanese memory maker a concrete technology milestone as CEO Hiroo Ota works to pull the company back toward the top of the NAND industry.
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GigaDevice Semiconductor expects first-half 2026 net profit to reach about CNY6.9 billion (US$960 million), a 1,099% increase from a year earlier, after tight memory chip supply lifted both shipment volumes and prices.
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Mitsubishi Chemical and Japan Steel Works are preparing a fresh capacity expansion in gallium nitride (GaN) substrates, aiming to capture growing demand from next-generation power semiconductors used in EVs, inverters and data center power systems.
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SK Group, which hosts the annual SK AI Summit as its flagship technology event to showcase its latest AI and semiconductor developments, is reportedly postponing the 2026 edition. Originally scheduled for the second half of 2026, the event is now expected to take place in the first half of 2027. Industry sources believe the move is intended to better align the summit with Nvidia GTC, which is held
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Micron Technology's decision to lift its planned US investment to more than US$ 250 billion through 2035, unveiled July 9 alongside the first concrete pour at its Clay, New York, site, is fundamentally a bet on where the AI era's most contested commodity, memory, will be manufactured.
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For years, India's electronics manufacturing has clustered in a handful of states — mobile-phone assembly around Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh, and a broad electronics and EMS base across Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, where the iPhone was first built in Bengaluru. India's semiconductor push is now redrawing that map, pulling the center of gravity westward to Gujarat.
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Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron Technology are taking different manufacturing paths for the logic base die in HBM4, opening a new front in the competition over advanced memory performance, yield and supply.
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Global Mixed-mode Technology reported June revenue of NT$743 million (US$23.16 million), down 0.71% from May but up 7.19% from a year earlier. The Taiwanese PMIC maker said second-quarter revenue reached NT$2.238 billion, up 5.99% from the first quarter and down 0.46% year on year, while first-half revenue totaled NT$4.349 billion, a 1.30% decline from a year earlier.
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Topco Scientific (TSC) posted June 2026 revenue of NT$7.51 billion (approx. US$233.49 million), an increase of NT$970 million from May and 32.9% from a year earlier, setting a new single-month record. Cumulative revenue for the first half of 2026 reached NT$39.32 billion, up 20.2% year-over-year and setting a record for the period.
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ASML, Imec and TSMC are collaborating in southern Taiwan to develop manufacturing equipment for two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor materials, marking a significant step toward commercializing technologies widely viewed as essential for extending Moore's Law beyond the limits of conventional silicon scaling.
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Largan said on July 9, 2026, that it will formally begin sampling fiber array (FA) products for a mass-production customer in July, while chairman En-Ping Lin outlined the company's advantages in common packaging optics (CPO) amid market attention on Corning's Glass Bridge technology.
2026-07-10
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New figures from Counterpoint Research estimate that the bill of materials (BOM) for the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro Max could rise nearly US$300 compared with the iPhone 17 Pro Max released in September last year. Ballooning memory costs largely account for this increase, although Apple may be better placed than most other smartphone brands to weather such price hikes.
2026-07-10
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Samsung Electronics' preliminary earnings have shaken financial markets. Drawing on a report from a US brokerage, DIGITIMES Intelligence analyst Luke Lin examined the actual progress of advanced-node capacity expansion at TSMC, Intel, and Samsung, arguing that market expectations in several areas have run ahead of reality.
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JCET plans to invest about CNY10 billion (approx. US$1.4 billion) in fixed assets in 2026, sharply increasing spending on AI-driven advanced packaging, automotive electronics and selected mainstream packaging capacity while its major Chinese plants run on strong orders.
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TSMC is accelerating advanced packaging capacity expansion as supply remains tight, with market chatter indicating its CoWoS monthly output will reach at least 200,000 wafers in 2027. Equipment makers are still waiting for TSMC to finalize order allocation, a delay that is raising fears of price-cutting competition and delivery delays, as lead times run at least seven to nine months.
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Realtek Semiconductor reported June 2026 revenue of NT$12.31 billion (approx. US$383.67 million), down 1.7% from the previous month but up 20.6% from a year earlier. Second-quarter 2026 revenue totaled NT$37.55 billion, rising 3.11% sequentially and 17.68% year-over-year, while first-half 2026 revenue reached NT$73.98 billion, up 10.52% from the same period last year. Both second-quarter and first