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2026-05-27
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2026-05-27
Taiwan-based Daxin Materials posted stronger revenue and profitability in 2025 as rapid growth in semiconductor materials offset a still-cautious display market recovery, with AI- and HPC-driven demand emerging as the company's primary growth engine.
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2026-05-27
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who is visiting Taiwan for two weeks, stated that the island's manufacturing sector is developing rapidly and needs more electricity.
2026-05-27
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2026-05-27
Wah Lee Industrial said it has formally moved into investments in standard gases and other supplies needed by wafer fabs, with its Tainan logistics center set to open in the second half of 2026 to support future growth. Chairman Gary Chang also confirmed that the company will pass on higher costs for semiconductor and PCB products quarterly as raw material prices climb.
2026-05-27
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2026-05-27
The agreement between Qualcomm and ByteDance positions the former for large-scale AI ASIC demand from the latter, as reported by Bloomberg, but market viability remains uncertain amid intense AI chip competition, evolving China procurement preferences, and regulatory pressures affecting cross-border semiconductor adoption.
2026-05-27
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2026-05-27
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2026-05-27
Gregory Haley
As high-NA EUV approaches, mask makers need new metrics, model-based checks, and curvil...
2026-05-27
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2026-05-27
China has formally brought AI chips into its national security and reliability evaluation framework for the first time, marking a further expansion of the country's Information Technology Application Innovation procurement policy into AI computing infrastructure.
2026-05-27
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2026-05-27
Samsung Electronics' tentative 2026 wage agreement has cleared a union vote with 73.7% approval, moving a months-long labor dispute closer to settlement while exposing a deeper divide between workers in the company's chip and consumer electronics businesses, according to Korean media reports.
2026-05-27
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2026-05-27
Computex 2026 is set to officially open in Taipei, and Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) Chairman James C.F. Huang has stated that the combined market capitalization of foreign companies participating in forums and keynote sessions at this year's event exceeds US$10 trillion. He also said that TAITRA has allocated the entire Taipei International Convention Center (TICC) exclusivel
2026-05-27
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2026-05-27
WinWay Technology's orders are already booked out five to six months in advance, says company Chairman Mark Wang. He expects new production capacity coming online at the company's Kaohsiung facilities to gradually ease supply shortages and help drive record monthly and quarterly revenue growth throughout the second half of 2026.
2026-05-27
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2026-05-27
Nvidia held an "employee town hall" on the morning of May 27 at the T17 and T18 sites in Beitou-Shilin Technology Park (BSTP), where CEO Jensen Huang met staff, gave away Dom Pérignon, and framed Taiwan as central to the company's AI expansion. Taipei Mayor Wayne Chiang attended only as a "guest."
2026-05-27
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2026-05-27
Huawei's Tau Law proposal is rapidly redirecting attention across China's semiconductor industry away from pure lithography competition and toward advanced packaging, 3D stacking, optical interconnects, and system-level architecture design.
2026-05-27
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2026-05-27
US efforts to rebuild its semiconductor supply chain are exposing a critical gap in domestic packaging and testing capacity, a bottleneck that industry sources expect to ease only after 2028 as the US OSAT ecosystem gradually takes shape.
2026-05-27
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2026-05-27
SmartSens and Unisoc have formed a strategic partnership to develop Micro LED high-speed optical interconnects, aiming to deliver domestic, low-power, high-bandwidth solutions for short-reach AI cluster links. The collaboration could accelerate the commercialization of Micro LED co-packaged optics (CPO) technology and strengthen China's role in global AI infrastructure supply chains, according to
2026-05-27
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2026-05-27
Samsung Electronics plans to invest VND39 trillion (approx. US$1.5 billion) in a new semiconductor testing facility in northern Vietnam, according to documents reviewed by Reuters,marking the company's first chip testing plant in the country as global memory demand surges amid the AI boom.
2026-05-27
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2026-05-27
Qualcomm has reached a deal to supply AI data center chips to ByteDance, giving the US smartphone processor designer a potentially high-volume customer as it tries to expand into AI infrastructure and custom silicon.
2026-05-27
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2026-05-27
First Micron, then SK Hynix, join the trillion-dollar club, capping an extraordinary repricing of an industry once dismissed as a commodity play. The milestone is more than a valuation story: it crystallizes a structural debate about whether AI has permanently transformed memory's earnings profile, a bubble concern as Chinese rivals ramp capacity, and a sharpening geopolitical contest over who con
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2026-05-27
Global DRAM revenue climbed sharply in the first quarter of 2026, approaching the US$100 billion threshold as artificial intelligence demand and tight supply conditions pushed prices higher across the memory market, according to Counterpoint Research.
2026-05-27
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2026-05-27
Gary Hilson
University of Saskatchewan will leverage quantum computing for health, defense, energy, and agriculture research.