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Equipment maker Manz recently announced the successful delivery of the world's first 310mm x 310mm panel-level packaging (PLP) electrochemical deposition (ECD) mass-production tool, further expanding its footprint in advanced packaging process equipment and demonstrating integrated capabilities spanning in-house R&D, process and system integration, and mass-production deployment.
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Below are the most-read DIGITIMES Asiastories from the week of June 8-14, 2026:
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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
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Taiwan-based UBright Optronics is accelerating its transformation from an LCD optical film specialist into a diversified technology supplier, expanding into semiconductor materials, passive components and smart acoustics. The new businesses are expected to begin generating revenue in 2026 as product certifications advance, but the company has not yet offered guidance on their revenue impact.
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SK Hynix is bringing additional back-end equipment into its Cheongju P&T6 facility as it steps up mass-production preparations for HBM4, a move that underscores mounting pressure on advanced memory suppliers to keep pace with demand from AI infrastructure.
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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.
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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)
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Google's push to diversify its Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) supply chain is increasingly reaching into the foundry side, adding pressure on ASIC makers such as MediaTek. Recent reports indicate that Google is not only set to adopt Intel's embedded multi-die interconnect bridge (EMIB) packaging for its next-generation product, but is also planning to bring in Samsung Electronics for front-end waf
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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.
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Wus Printed Circuit is pressing ahead with an AI-driven transformation, with its chairman and president outlining plans to move toward profitability as demand builds across high-performance computing and emerging technology markets.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's recent trip to South Korea put the spotlight on the rivalry between Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, while memory giant Micron crossed the US$1 trillion market-cap mark for the first time. That shift has also drawn global attention to Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra, whose rise began with a string of dramatic visa rejections 50 years ago.
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INPAQ Technology, a unit of PSA Walsin Technology, reported that revenue and profit in the first quarter of 2026 fell year on year, citing a supply-demand imbalance in the memory market and sharp raw material price increases. The company said it expected a gradual recovery in the second half of 2026 as industry inventories normalized and new products and customers began contributing. INPAQ also ou
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Galatek Technologies has opened a manufacturing, assembly, and delivery center in Penang, marking the AI-enabled automation and semiconductor equipment supplier's first manufacturing site in Malaysia.
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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.