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2026-06-22
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2026-06-22
Crypto Briefing
Memory-chip shortage drives up consumer prices as AI devours supply meant for your devices
Apple raises MacBook prices by up to $400 as data centers consume an ever-growing share of global memory prod
2026-06-22
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2026-06-22
Crypto Briefing
South Korea’s early exports rise 50% in June on semiconductor demand
AI-fueled chip demand is turning South Korea into the world's semiconductor ATM, with early June exports hitting $28.6 billion
2026-06-22
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2026-06-22
TrendForce
[News] MIT Announced Breakthrough in GaN-on-Single-Crystal Diamond Thermal Management Technology
2026-06-22 Semiconductors editor
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On June 8, 2026, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced that its researchers had successfully embedded gallium nitride (GaN) transistors into an ultra-thin single-crystal diamond layer, overcoming a major thermal bottleneck in high-power
2026-06-22
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2026-06-22
High-speed transmission IC design company ASMedia Technology held its annual shareholders meeting on June 17, completing a full board reshuffle. ASMedia president Che-Wei Lin stated that 2025 revenue surpassed NT$10 billion (approx. US$316.5 million) for the first time, while earnings per share (EPS) reached NT$72.7. However, amid structural changes in the industry driven by the continued expansio
2026-06-22
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2026-06-22
Amid growing localization efforts across China's supply chain, FineMat Applied Materials has seen its metal mask business continue to shrink and is accelerating its transition into AI cooling, semiconductors, and drones. The company's liquid-cooling cold plates for AI applications have already been sampled by end customers and are expected to begin shipping in the second half of 2026. Once volume
2026-06-22
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2026-06-22
Semiconductor testing and analysis service provider Hongkang held its annual shareholders' meeting on June 18. Chairperson Hsieh Yung-fen said the company has begun investing in a silicon photonics wafer-and-chip optoelectronic analysis platform in anticipation of growing demand for silicon photonics. The first system is expected to be installed before August 2026, followed by a second and third s
2026-06-22
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2026-06-22
AI data centers are driving growth in demand for power management and power semiconductor components. Hot swap products, in particular, require a wide safe operating area (SOA) to prevent excessive surge current when a redundant power supply is inserted and activated, interacting with the system's large capacitors.
2026-06-22
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2026-06-22
Below are the most-read DIGITIMES Asiastories from the week of June 15-21, 2026:
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2026-06-22
AI-driven memory price spikes are presenting a challenge for Samsung's smartphone business, with rising component prices eroding the affordability of its budget phones. At the same time, Samsung is seeking to use its new AI features to encourage new device purchases as memory prices dampen smartphone sales globally.
2026-06-22
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2026-06-22
TSMC is accelerating its CoPoS rollout, replacing traditional round wafers with larger rectangular glass panels to support packaging demand for AI GPUs and HPC chips over the next several years. Supply chain sources said the first wave of demo equipment has already been installed at VisEra, a TSMC subsidiary.
2026-06-22
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2026-06-22
China's memory makers are moving from technology catch-up to capital-market expansion, with ChangXin Memory Technologies' (CXMT) parent and Yangtze Memory Technology (YMTC) both preparing initial public offerings (IPOs) to fund future capacity growth and technology upgrades. South Korean industry players are paying particularly close attention to YMTC, which focuses on NAND Flash and is closing in
2026-06-22
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2026-06-22
SK Hynix briefly overtook Samsung Electronics on June 22 to claim the top spot by common-share market capitalization on South Korea's KOSPI exchange, a milestone that reflects how high-bandwidth memory (HBM) has redefined the value of Korea's semiconductor industry.
2026-06-22
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2026-06-22
Nvidia's planned US$20 billion strategic deal with Groq is built on a simple logic: as compute gets cheaper, demand keeps expanding. In a recent interview, Groq co-founder and CEO Jonathan Ross explained why Nvidia is expected to combine Groq's LPU with its latest Vera Rubin platform and how GPU and LPU can work as complementary engines in LLM inference.
2026-06-22
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2026-06-22
Japanese bathroom fixture maker Toto is deepening its commitment to the semiconductor industry, unveiling plans to invest JPY80 billion (approx. US$495.3 million) over the next five years to expand production of advanced ceramic materials used in chip manufacturing. According to a Nikkei Asiareport, the company aims to support future-generation semiconductor processes in the 1nm range, extending a
2026-06-22
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2026-06-22
The race to commercialize glass core substrates in advanced semiconductor packaging is heating up — but the technology is moving faster in headlines than in production lines. DIGITIMEShas been tracking the latest developments in TSMC's CoPoS advanced packaging technology, with glass core substrates emerging as the most closely watched variable in that story.
2026-06-22
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2026-06-22
The memory industry is entering a super cycle as prices keep soaring, with industry sources saying third-quarter 2026 contract price gains show no sign of slowing amid tight supply from upstream vendors. Overall increases could reach 30% to 40%, after second-quarter 2026 contract prices already climbed 40%. As market prices continue to stack higher in the second half, profits at the top three memo
2026-06-22
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2026-06-22
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2026-06-22
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2026-06-22
Dr. Robert Castellano's Semiconductor Deep Dive Newsletter
Why Revenue Alone Misleads Semiconductor Equipment Investors
Applied Materials has the industry's broadest equipment portfolio, but ASML and KLA show that leadership depends on dominating the right segments, not simply selling into more of them.
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2026-06-22
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21 JUNE 2026
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MICRON STOCK FACES JUNE 24 EARNINGS TEST AFTER AI MEMORY RALLY AND RECORD CLOSE
BY SHAN AHMED KHAN
NEW YORK, June 21, 2026, 17:03 EDT
Micron closed Thursday at $1,133.99, up 8.7%, before Nasdaq’s Friday Juneteenth closure extended the market break into the weekend.
The June 24 fiscal third-quarter report is being tr
2026-06-22
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2026-06-22
Startup Fortune
Micron goes into its June 24 earnings report with a memory business Wall Street no longer knows how to value. The old commodity-cycle playbook doesn't explain 81% gross margin guidance, HBM contracts signed years ahead, or a stock that has already run hard into the print.
Micron's next earnings call is not a routine update. It is a test of whether investors should still treat the company like a b