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Techzone Technology Materials, a provider of one of Taiwan's few integrated waste treatment, renewable energy, and recycling solutions, is actively addressing the waste treatment demand driven by semiconductor capacity expansion. Together with its subsidiaries Han-Yang Technology Renewable Energy and Sunlight Environment, the company has a combined annual treatment capacity of 239,000 tons.
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MediaTek is reportedly strengthening its partnership with Google in ASICs, a move that could increase the scale of future orders and carry implications for AI infrastructure worldwide. Market talk suggests the company may build an upgraded triggerfish product for Google, underscoring how global chipmakers are vying for influence in TPU development.
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ByteDance's reported plan to purchase at least 50,000 AI inference chips from Shanghai-based GPU developer Iluvatar CoreX could become one of the most significant commercial wins yet for China's domestic AI chip industry.
2026-06-25
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National Silicon Industry Group, China's leading 12-inch silicon wafer maker, has announced a CNY11.45 billion (US$1.6 billion) capital injection into its core subsidiary Shanghai Xinsheng Semiconductor Technology, in a restructuring aimed at easing losses in its wafer business.
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AI chipmaker SambaNova could raise between US$800 million and US$1 billion in a new funding round, according to its executive chairman and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan. This would raise SambaNova's value to US$10 billion as increasing inferential AI workloads spur a search for alternatives to Nvidia's expensive GPUs.
2026-06-25
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2026-06-25
Global helium supply is under renewed strain. Nippon Sanso, Japan's largest industrial gas supplier, announced it will raise prices across its helium product line by an average of more than 30% starting July 2026, citing persistent tightness in global supply driven in part by rising geopolitical risks in the Middle East.
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Sigurd is expanding testing and packaging capacity as AI demand and steady customer orders keep its facilities fully utilized. For global readers, the move underscores how supply chains for silicon photonics (SiPh), AI servers, and advanced chips are tightening, while new capacity is expected to ease bottlenecks and shape revenue growth in 2026 and 2027.
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As demand for AI chips surges, the battle for foundry orders is heating up. South Korean industry sources say the next 2-3 years will be a critical period for Samsung Electronics' foundry business, with its 2028 turnaround target hinging on stable operations at the Taylor plant and landing major orders.
2026-06-25
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The global semiconductor packaging and testing race is heating up as TSMC recently signed a 10-year agreement with Amkor to expand advanced packaging collaboration in Arizona, drawing close market attention to how the rivalry with ASE and Amkor will reshape market share. ASE Chief Operating Officer Tien Wu said he is "optimistic," stating that strong demand from US customers and the need to divers
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2026-06-25
Co-packaged optics (CPO) is rapidly emerging as a foundational architecture for next-generation AI infrastructure. With Nvidia's latest Scale-Up CPO switch roadmap now taking shape, bandwidth per AI rack is set to increase from approximately 130 TB/s in the Blackwell generation to more than 1 PB/s in the Feynman era, spanning Blackwell, Rubin, Rubin Ultra, and Feynman platforms. As a result, the g
2026-06-25
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2026-06-25
The European Commission has given the green light to a EUR76 million (approx. US$86.3 million) German subsidy supporting QuantumDiamonds' plan to build a new semiconductor testing equipment facility in Munich, the Commission announced. The approval is the latest step in Brussels' push to reduce Europe's reliance on foreign chip technology and strengthen its industrial autonomy.
2026-06-25
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2026-06-25
Rising demand for AI server builds is tightening the global supply of high-end MLCCs, driving steep price increases in China's electronics distribution market and exposing how quickly infrastructure demand can affect component costs worldwide. The rally underscores a structural mismatch that could keep pressure on buyers across technology supply chains for years, according to industry sources.
2026-06-25
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2026-06-25
ADATA Technology is stepping up discussions in Thailand amid rising global demand for AI computing centers. Chairman Simon Chen's visit highlights how Southeast Asia could benefit from expanding AI infrastructure, supporting industrial policy, and strengthening regional cooperation. The company sees Thailand as a possible hub for future growth and technology investment.
2026-06-25
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2026-06-25
Micron Technology expects the global memory market to remain supply-constrained beyond 2027, driven by surging artificial intelligence demand and structural limits on new manufacturing capacity, while unveiling a new long-term supply model backed by strategic customer agreements.
2026-06-25
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2026-06-25
Optical lens manufacturer Calin Technology stated at its shareholders' meeting on June 24 that global market growth has been weakened by economic volatility and US tariff policies. It reported consolidated revenue of NT$1.02 billion (approx. US$32 million) in 2025 and a net loss after tax of NT$261 million. Although profitability fell short of expectations due to production volumes remaining below
2026-06-25
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2026-06-25
Hua Hong Grace Semiconductor (HHGrace) is seeing gains from both process technology and capacity expansion, with industry research showing its 40nm ultra-low-power specialty process has entered stable mass production while its Wuxi 12-inch line continues to ramp.
2026-06-25
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2026-06-25
ASE Holdings COO Dr Tien Wu said the global semiconductor industry is growing faster than expected on the back of AI investment, with demand so strong that the capacity the company had built over the past few years was absorbed almost immediately.
2026-06-25
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2026-06-25
Micron Technology is turning the AI memory boom into a new Wall Street story: not just record DRAM, NAND and HBM demand, but stronger free cash flow, long-term customer commitments and a clearer path to shareholder returns.
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Qualcomm used its June 24 investor day to unveil a data center chip portfolio and a multi-generation CPU agreement with Meta, a strategic bid to diversify beyond a shrinking smartphone business and challenge Nvidia's dominance — while courting Chinese demand and leaning on manufacturing partner TSMC.
2026-06-25
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2026-06-25
OpenAI on June 24 unveiled "Jalapeño," its first in-house AI accelerator, co-developed with Broadcom and manufactured by TSMC — the clearest sign yet that leading model developers want to design their own chips and broaden a supply chain long dominated by Nvidia.