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Apple Signals Price Hikes Amid Memory Chip Shortage
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June 18, 2026
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Apple plans to raise prices on its products to offset soaring memory and storage chip costs, CEO Tim Cook told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published June 17, 2026. Cook sa
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Apple CEO Tim Cook tells WSJ that price hikes are "unavoidable" as AI-driven demand drains memory chip supplies. Here's what's behind the shortage and what it means for Apple's lineup.
Tim Cook Confirms It: iPhone Prices Are Going Up Because of a Global Chip Shortage
Get ready to pay more for your next Apple device. CEO Tim Cook has confirmed that Apple plans to raise prices across its product l
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Samsung Foundry’s MPW service allows multiple chip designs to share a single wafer for prototype production. Credit: Samsung
Samsung Electronics' foundry division plans to open its Multi-Project Wafer, or MPW, service to its 2nm process next year, giving South Korean fabless chip designers access to one of the most advanced foundry nodes being commercialized without having to pay...
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SEOUL, June 18 (Yonhap) -- SK hynix Inc. said Thursday it has begun shipping samples of its latest high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chip, the 12-layer HBM4E, to major global customers, marking another step in the race to supply next-generation memory for artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
"The company was able to deliver samples of the 12-stack HBM4E on schedule thanks to its advanced HBM deve
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A recent open letter from the UK-based fund Palliser Capital called Taiwanese printed circuit board (PCB) maker WUS Printed Circuit one of the most undervalued AI PCB companies in the capital market. This has once drawn industry attention to the current business cooperation between WUS and its subsidiary in China, WUS Printed Circuit Kunshan.
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Samsung Electronics has demonstrated a 3D stacked transistor structure with a 42-nanometer gate pitch, a research milestone that extends vertical integration, long used in memory chips, into logic semiconductors.
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SK Hynix has eliminated degree requirements from its regular recruitment process for new employees, as the memory chip giant seeks to strengthen its lead in high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and secure talent for the fast-changing AI semiconductor market. Industry watchers said the move reflects a greater focus on practical creativity and execution in the AI era rather than formal academic credentials.
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Taiwan's 2026 GDP growth is on track to exceed 10% as AI demand powers the island's economy, Minister of Economic Affairs Ming-hsin Kung said, adding that this level of growth may be achieved given current trends. He pointed to stronger-than-expected exports from the AI supply chain and traditional industries such as machinery.
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Samsung Electronics' foundry division plans to open its Multi-Project Wafer, or MPW, service to its 2nm process next year, giving South Korean fabless chip designers access to one of the most advanced foundry nodes being commercialized without having to pay for a full wafer run, according to ZDNet Koreaand iNews24.
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SK Hynix has begun shipping samples of HBM4E, its next-generation high-bandwidth memory, to major customers. The South Korean chipmaker said the 12-layer product was delivered on schedule.
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Taiwan's listed semiconductor manufacturers reported strong May revenue figures, with a sweeping recovery in DRAM prices and rising artificial intelligence infrastructure spending lifting most of the sector's 27 tracked companies to double-digit year-on-year gains.
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Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are each reviewing locations in South Korea's Honam region for new semiconductor packaging plants, according to The Elecand Hankyung, citing industry sources, as the two companies look for ways to add back-end capacity beyond their existing manufacturing hubs.
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A teardown of Huawei's latest Mate 80 Pro Max smartphone has put China's semiconductor progress back under scrutiny, after analysis showed the HiSilicon Kirin 9030 processor was made on SMIC's third-generation 7nm-class N+3 process with a local metal pitch narrower than that of Intel's 18A chip used in Panther Lake.
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As AI chip technology advances, larger chip sizes and heterogeneous integration packaging are driving bigger package dimensions, pushing semiconductor makers to adopt FOPLP over FOWLP and improve manufacturing efficiency by "replacing round with square." DIGITIMESbelieves that panel makers have an edge because their existing glass substrates are larger than those used by OSATs, making FOPLP develo
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Japanese capacitor manufacturer Nichicon has announced a broad price hike for aluminum electrolytic capacitors (e-cap), as order volumes for some products have exceeded the company's existing production capacity. The announcement comes amid another round of price increases in the passive components industry.
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2026-06-18
The global semiconductor and high-tech manufacturing landscape continues to undergo structural realignment. An increasing number of Chinese technology and semiconductor companies are adopting a dual-location strategy, establishing corporate entities in Singapore while locating manufacturing operations in Malaysia in an effort to reduce their association with the "Made in China" label.
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MPI Corporation, a major probe card supplier, said AI demand is tightening supply across the probe card market and extending order visibility, with the company considering a prepayment mechanism to guarantee customers priority access to capacity.
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Following the announcement in April 2026 that the AI5 chip design had been finalized, Tesla CEO Elon Musk introduced a new benchmark, stating that under yield considerations, the AI6 chip is expected to set a new record for maximum usable computing power per wafer.