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In October 2020, Intel agreed to sell its NAND memory and storage business to SK Hynix for $9 billion, with the final closing completed in March 2025. This move marked a strategic shift by Intel from traditional memory business to focusing on chip manufacturing. However, with the rise of artificial

Intel sold its NAND memory and storage business to SK Hynix for $9 billion in 2020, with the final transaction closing in March 2025. This move marked a strategic pivot by Intel away from commodity memory business toward its foundry operations. However, the rise of AI has dramatically reshaped the m

Micron Technology's Taiwanese employees are increasingly supporting a strike over bonus payment issues. A preliminary survey found that 80% of workers back the action, with the labor union demanding a shift from the current bonus system to a profit-sharing model similar to that of SK Hynix employees

As the AI hardware market continues to expand, the semiconductor industry is entering a pivotal quarter-end earnings window. In the upcoming month of September, NVIDIA, Broadcom, and Micron are set to report their results, drawing significant market attention. NVIDIA, leading in the data center GPU

Photronics reported a record proportion of high-end integrated-circuit photomask revenue in Q3 2026, accounting for 44% of total IC sales, driven by ongoing industry-wide migration toward advanced manufacturing nodes and sustained high fab utilization rates. Total revenue rose 2.7% year-over-year to

As semiconductor devices advance toward higher integration and smaller process nodes, power and thermal management challenges are becoming increasingly critical. This article highlights a novel microscale heat flow measurement technique developed by a research team at MIT, which combines ultrafast X