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2026-07-10
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2026-07-10
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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2026-07-10
China's graduate job market is shifting toward semiconductors, materials, and manufacturing, with global implications for supply chains, AI development, and critical minerals. Fresh salary data show computer science and software engineering losing ground as strategic industries draw more talent, while hard tech majors gain pay advantages across the country.
2026-07-10
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2026-07-10
For most of its modern history, India's Northeast — the eight states anchored by Assam — has sat at the margins of the country's industrial economy. That is beginning to change, as a mix of federal industrial incentives, a flagship semiconductor packaging plant in Assam, and deepening ties with Japan give the region a modest but real foothold in India's electronics ambitions.
2026-07-10
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2026-07-10
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.
2026-07-10
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2026-07-10
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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2026-07-10
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will travel to Japan for an event celebrating the US chipmaker's three-decade relationship with Sega, revisiting a partnership that helped Nvidia survive its difficult early years as semiconductor competition expands from data centers to personal computers.
2026-07-10
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2026-07-10
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.
2026-07-10
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2026-07-10
Alan Patterson
Apple’s $30B Broadcom bet drags AI data centers and U.S. chipmaking into its orbit… and may hand Intel a lifeline.
2026-07-10
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2026-07-10
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.
2026-07-10
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2026-07-10
GlobalWafers and Micron have signed a 10-year supply agreement, alongside US$500 million in strategic financial support, in a move that underscores how artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), data centers, and advanced memory demand are reshaping semiconductor sourcing. The deal extends US supply chain localization beyond wafer production and into upstream critical material
2026-07-10
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2026-07-10
Apple and Broadcom have extended their custom-chip partnership through 2031 under agreements expected to exceed US$30 billion, reinforcing Broadcom's position as a critical Apple chip supplier.
2026-07-10
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2026-07-10
China moved on July 10 to wall off its domestic supply of helium, a gas with no substitute in chipmaking and medical imaging, in a step that suggests Beijing does not expect Middle East supply risks to ease quickly — and one that could tighten an already strained global market.
2026-07-10
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2026-07-10
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.
2026-07-10
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2026-07-10
E&R Engineering says AI demand and faster-than-expected glass substrate adoption are tightening equipment supply and advancing investment plans across Asia and the US. For global chip makers, the shift could accelerate next-generation packaging capacity, reshape supplier spending, and bring advanced process tools into volume production sooner than expected.
2026-07-10
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2026-07-10
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.
2026-07-10
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2026-07-10
Meta Platforms plans to begin manufacturing its Iris AI accelerator in September 2026 while securing long-term supplies of memory, storage and optical equipment for a computing expansion expected to reach 14 gigawatts in 2027.
2026-07-10
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2026-07-10
As cloud service providers (CSPs) continue to ramp up capital expenditures, demand for high-speed interconnects within data centers is accelerating. Multiple research firms forecast that leading CSPs will sustain high double-digit capex growth in 2026, with roughly half of the increase driven by data center expansion.
2026-07-10
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2026-07-10
SK Hynix has priced a US$26.5 billion Nasdaq offering, giving the world's leading supplier of high-bandwidth memory fresh capital to expand DRAM wafer production, advanced packaging and leading-edge manufacturing equipment at the same time.
2026-07-10
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2026-07-10
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.
2026-07-10
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2026-07-10
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.