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In power electronics engineering, Silicon Carbide (SiC) companies are competing to achieve the absolute lowest thermal resistance (Rth), with the mindset that lower heat signature equates a superior system. However, at PCIM Europe 2026, a collaborative project between Rohm Semiconductor, Schweizer Electronic, and eMoveUs GmbH exposed a revolutionary counter-intuitive shift in design philosophy: wi
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Chinese PC major Lenovo is reportedly set to raise prices across its entire product line from July 2026, with increases broadly in line with its first round of adjustments in March. Retail prices for some models could rise by as much as CNY1,000 (approx. US$148).
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Power semiconductors are taking on a central role as AI data centers move from 800V high-voltage input down through multiple power-conversion stages to the ultra-low voltages used by chips. After the post-pandemic inventory correction, industry players say power semiconductors have shifted "from a supporting role to the lead" under the new AI high-voltage direct current (HVDC) power architecture.
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Breaking the inference barrier requires a rethink of the whole system architecture, not just faster compute. This was the key takeaway from a recent panel discussion at SuperAI Singapore, which brought chip makers and an AI model accelerator together to address how to overcome inference bottlenecks at a time when compute workloads are hitting up against physical limits.
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Elon Musk's planned Terafab chipmaking project has taken an early equipment-sourcing step, with South Korean equipment maker HPSP reportedly receiving a purchase order for high-pressure hydrogen annealing equipment.
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China's two leading memory chipmakers, CXMT and YMTC, are moving closer to the capital market, putting the country's memory industry back under the semiconductor spotlight.
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Cadence and Intel Foundry are expanding their collaboration on advanced chip design, a move that could affect future semiconductors used in devices and data centers worldwide. The agreement aims to improve performance, power efficiency, and design readiness as chipmakers race to bring next-generation technologies to market.
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Samsung Electronics is regaining ground in high-bandwidth memory and foundry services, but advanced packaging remains a weak point in its bid to capture a larger share of the AI chip supply chain, according to industry sources and Korean media reports.
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Broadcom has acknowledged it will not win all of Google's TPU orders, highlighting how tensor processing units have become a competitive arena for multiple chipmakers. For global readers, the shift signals a broader race for cloud AI supply, capacity, and influence, as more firms vie for a share of high-value custom chip demand.
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The global push for AI and HPC chips is tightening advanced packaging capacity and lifting orders for outsourced semiconductor assembly and test providers. For international customers and supply chains, the shift suggests stronger demand for Taiwan's packaging and testing firms, alongside a broader rebalancing of semiconductor production.
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TSMC has been drawn into a patent infringement complaint in the US by Ireland-based patent licensing firms Longitude Licensing and Marlin Semiconductor. The companies have claimed that the US government could block imports to the US of chips made by TSMC as a result of the case, and have enlisted several members of Congress to support their position, drawing market attention.
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The artificial intelligence (AI) industry is expanding at a pace that the physical world cannot match, and the gap between digital demand and real-world supply is widening across every layer of the infrastructure stack, from power generation to chip manufacturing to data center construction. That was the assessment of Sachin Hindupur, global strategy and operations leader at AMD, in a presentation
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2026-06-12
SK Hynix's latest fire at its Cheongju, South Korea, campus has again disrupted operations at a key memory-chip site and prompted evacuations of thousands of workers. The incident adds to a series of recent accidents, raising fresh safety concerns for semiconductor plants worldwide that depend on hazardous gases and chemicals.
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United Nova Technology (UNT) is expanding from automotive and industrial chips into AI server power management and optical interconnects through a CNY20 billion (US$3 billion) 12-inch mixed-signal fab project.
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Taiwanese power management IC supplier Global Mixed-mode Technology (GMT) will follow peers in seeking price increases from customers as tight chip supply continues to reshape capacity allocation across the industry.
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India's official think tank NITI Aayog has outlined a 2035 roadmap for India to become a more central part of the global semiconductor industry, warning that continued reliance on imports leaves the country exposed to cost, supply, and security risks.
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As wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors like silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) take the lead in electric vehicle (EV) powertrains, electronics packaging engineers are facing a thermodynamic reckoning. To extract maximum performance from these high-frequency, high-efficiency chips, the industry is driving an architectural shift: shrinking inverter volumes, eliminating heavy copper basepl
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Google is considering using Samsung Electronics to manufacture part of a future artificial intelligence (AI) chip, a move that would mark a notable shift in the US tech group's supply chain as demand for advanced AI silicon strains capacity at TSMC.