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What Wall Street analysts are saying about Qualcomm’s next act
Analysts weigh in after private panels on Qualcomm's push into one of the fastest-growing markets
Qualcomm President and CEO Cristiano Amon, pictured during the Computex 2026 exhibition in Taiwan, discusses agentic AI a few weeks before he debuts Qualcomm's new datacenter product suite during Investor Day in Ne
2026-06-30
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2026-06-30
As AI demand continues to fuel global semiconductor investment, customers are keeping wafer starts strong, and TSMC is accelerating its push into 2nm-and-below nodes as well as advanced packaging technologies such as CoWoS. Industry sources said the AI-driven investment wave is now spreading beyond foundries into the equipment, materials, factory engineering, and inspection supply chains.
2026-06-30
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2026-06-30
Rumors in Taiwan's capital markets that United Microelectronics Corp. may deepen cooperation with Intel from 12nm to Intel 3 are drawing skepticism from DIGITIMESanalyst Luke Lin. He said the main obstacles are the technology gap and Intel's internal capacity allocation, which make a near-term move commercially difficult.
2026-06-30
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2026-06-30
China's silicon carbide (SiC) supply chain is finding a new growth engine as AI strains data-center power systems, extending a market long driven by electric vehicles.
2026-06-30
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2026-06-30
Nexchip Semiconductor has filed for a Hong Kong listing to fund expansion, following rapid revenue growth and a stronger market position. The prospectus highlights its scale in display driver chips and image sensors, while also warning investors about customer concentration, heavy capital needs, and exposure to shifting trade policy.
2026-06-30
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2026-06-30
Memory pricing pressure continues to intensify. Contract prices have already recorded substantial gains for two consecutive quarters in the first half of 2026. The pace of quarterly increases may now moderate as the pricing base climbs higher. Still, the memory industry remains firmly in a seller's market. Supply constraints have spread beyond high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and premium DRAM products
2026-06-30
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2026-06-30
Taiwanese prosecutors have reportedly expanded their investigation into the alleged illegal export of high-end AI servers to China, Hong Kong, and Macau, launching a second round of raids targeting Supermicro's Taiwan branch and two listed Taiwanese technology companies.
2026-06-30
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2026-06-30
SK Hynix said on June 29 it will spend KRW1,100 trillion (approx. US$710 billion) across three sites in South Korea over the coming decades, accelerating its Yongin cluster timeline by 12 years as it warned that even faster construction will not be enough to meet projected AI memory demand.
2026-06-30
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2026-06-30
Apple's next iPhone Pro lineup could be heading toward one of its sharpest pricing tests in years, as surging memory costs threaten to raise hardware expenses just as the company pushes deeper into on-device AI.
2026-06-30
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2026-06-30
Hurun Research Institute released its Hurun Global Unicorn List on June 25, a ranking covering 1,603 companies across 52 countries and 299 cities. The number of companies is up 5.3% from the prior year, while total global unicorn value has surged 43% year on year to US$8 trillion, far outpacing growth in the number of companies.
2026-06-30
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2026-06-30
Reports in South Korea that SK Hynix is slowing the pace of converting production lines to sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory, or HBM4, and shifting more capacity toward commodity DRAM have drawn market attention.
2026-06-30
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2026-06-30
South Korea's inventories of high-purity carbon dioxide, a critical material used in advanced semiconductor manufacturing, have fallen below normal buffer levels, raising procurement concerns across the chip industry, according to The Elec.
2026-06-30
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2026-06-30
Micron's latest earnings call pointed to a broader AI shift that could reshape memory demand far beyond data centers, with investors taking note of the company's comments on robots, autonomous vehicles, and other physical systems. The message suggested that the next leg of growth may come from devices that bring AI into the real world.
2026-06-30
digitimes.com
2026-06-30
The 2026 peak season for IC design firms remains unclear, with global readers likely to feel the effects through pricier smartphones, PCs, and other devices. Supply-chain costs are rising, demand is hard to gauge, and companies are preparing for customer stockpiling that could keep chip orders elevated into the third quarter.
2026-06-30
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2026-06-30
Japan's world-renowned Riken institute announced in late March 2026 that its homegrown superconducting quantum computer, "Ei-II," jointly developed with the University of Osaka, had officially gone online with 144 qubits and 99.9% fidelity. Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) said Riken will next work with Taiwan's academic community on research, including next-generation compo
2026-06-30
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2026-06-30
AI demand in 2026 is no longer confined to GPUs, but is broadening into ASICs, networking, PMICs, and a wide range of peripheral ICs, tightening capacity across both 8-inch mature processes and 12-inch advanced nodes. CoWoS's advanced packaging and HBM capacity are also set for a prolonged supply shortage, effectively rewriting the foundry industry's business cycle.
2026-06-30
digitimes.com
2026-06-30
Protecting patents around the world is a core value for any R&D-driven company. It is also a commitment to partnering with customers. In 2025, glass giant Corning filed nearly 400 patent applications and close to 1,000 international applications. Its active patent portfolio now totals around 11,400 patents worldwide.
2026-06-30
digitimes.com
2026-06-30
For more than a decade, Apple built one of the industry's most profitable business models by using its purchasing power to drive down memory and component costs before turning hardware upgrades into high-margin revenue. The AI-driven boom in HBM and DRAM is now challenging that strategy.