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2026-05-21
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2026-05-21
Nvidia continues to exclude Chinese data center compute revenue from its outlook, with CFO Colette Kress citing uncertainty around whether H200 imports will be allowed into the country despite recent US export license approvals.
2026-05-21
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2026-05-21
GigaDevice said tight supply and rising prices across DRAM, NOR Flash, and SLC NAND Flash continued to fuel strong first-quarter 2026 earnings growth, supported by recovering demand from AI, server, and industrial applications.
2026-05-21
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2026-05-21
SK Hynix is reportedly moving to reshape part of its Cheongju campus around wafer testing, a shift that underscores how high-bandwidth memory, or HBM, is putting new pressure on the back end of the chipmaking process.
2026-05-21
semiengineering.com
2026-05-21
Gregory Haley
Inspection limits, curvilinear adoption, data volumes, and high-NA EUV are converging t...
2026-05-21
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2026-05-21
AI is shifting the semiconductor supply chain's next bottleneck from wafer fabrication and HBM memory to ABF substrates — a lower-profile but critical packaging material used in high-end CPUs, GPUs, ASICs, and networking chips.
2026-05-21
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2026-05-21
Bloombergreports that Texas Instruments (TI) has sued former vice president Kannan Soundarapandian, alleging he joined GlobalFoundries without fully disclosing his new employer and may bring proprietary power semiconductor knowledge into competitive use. TI is seeking to block his role, arguing it could expose confidential process "recipes, roadmaps, and know-how," with broader implications for co
2026-05-21
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2026-05-21
LG Innotek has secured substrate supply terms with major technology customers that increasingly resemble long-term agreements used in the memory-chip sector, boosting the South Korean supplier's revenue visibility and reducing profit volatility, according to reports.Hankyungand Yonhap, citing a KB Securities report, said the proposed contracts include large upfront payments, binding multi-year sup
2026-05-21
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2026-05-21
Bryon Moyer
Costs can rise with chiplets. Will that change? Will it matter?
2026-05-21
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2026-05-21
In a press release on May 20, Japan-based Tokuyama Corporation said it will build a second high-purity isopropyl alcohol plant in Kaohsiung through its joint venture with Formosa Plastics, a move aimed at strengthening global semiconductor supply chains by increasing capacity and quality assurance for electronic manufacturing chemicals and improving stability for customers worldwide through enhanc
2026-05-21
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2026-05-21
May 20, Nvidia reported first-quarter fiscal 2027 revenue of US$81.6 billion, up 85% year over year and 20% sequentially. GAAP diluted EPS reached US$2.39, up 214% year-on-year, and non-GAAP EPS was US$1.87, up 140% year-on-year. Both topped consensus estimates, with revenue near US$79 billion and non-GAAP EPS of US$1.77, S&P Global Market Intelligence reported.
2026-05-21
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2026-05-21
During a keynote discussion session at Tech Forum 2026, DIGITIMES senior reporter Monica Chen and semiconductor analyst Andrew Lu shared their views on current AI server technology transformations, concerns over capital expenditure bubbles among global cloud giants, changes in application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and chip architectures, and TSMC's global expansion strategy.
2026-05-21
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2026-05-21
Nvidia used its first quarter of fiscal year 2027 earnings call on May 20, 2026 to lay out a three-tier silicon cadence that should make any rival roadmap look thin: a Blackwell ramp the company calls the fastest in its history, the first production silicon of Vera Rubin in the second half of this year, and a brand-new Arm CPU, Vera, that opens a US$200 billion TAM Nvidia has never touched.
2026-05-21
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2026-05-21
Samsung Electronics has launched silicon photonics foundry services and entered pilot production, signaling during its latest earnings call that optical communication modules will soon move to mass production — backed by aggressive investment. Yet compared with TSMC, which has already achieved breakthroughs in co-packaged optics (CPO) through Taiwan's well-established supply chain ecosystem, Samsu
2026-05-21
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2026-05-21
Jake Roach
They’ll show up in Ryzen AI Halo boxes “soon,” and pre-orders for Ryzen AI Halo with Strix Halo open in June, starting at $3,999.
2026-05-21
eetimes.com
2026-05-21
Pablo Valerio
Gartner defines autonomous business systems, with 8 in 10 executives expecting them to become the primary business model by 2030.
2026-05-21
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2026-05-21
Surging demand for AI data center infrastructure has already pushed the memory market into a structural shortage. Now, Samsung Electronics' labor dispute is adding another layer of uncertainty for DRAM and NAND Flash prices.
2026-05-21
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2026-05-21
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) CEO Lisa Su stated that the company plans to invest more than US$10 billion in Taiwan's industrial ecosystem to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. The announcement was made during her visit to Taiwan, where she also disclosed the latest progress in collaborations with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), backend pac
2026-05-21
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2026-05-21
Nvidia introduced a new segment reporting framework on its first quarter of fiscal 2027 call, splitting data center revenue into Hyperscale and ACIE (AI Clouds, Industrial, Enterprise) and breaking out Edge Computing as a separate platform.
2026-05-21
semiengineering.com
2026-05-21
Laura Peters
Warpage, heat, and brittleness can cause huge reliability problems for expensive designs.
2026-05-21
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2026-05-21
With less than an hour remaining before a planned strike was set to begin, Samsung Electronics and its labor union reached a tentative agreement late on May 20, narrowly avoiding what industry observers estimated could have triggered supply-chain disruptions worth more than KRW100 trillion (US$66.8 billion).