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2026-07-02
digitimes.com 2026-07-02
China's display makers, led by BOE Technology (BOE), are pushing deeper into semiconductors, with BOE advancing glass substrates, and a 12-inch wafer fab reportedly slated to begin mass production in the second half of 2026. Industry analysts say China is extending display technologies built up with strong government backing into semiconductors as the US tightens restrictions, adding pressure on S
2026-07-02
digitimes.com 2026-07-02
LG Electronics has begun offering application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design services to outside chip companies, drawing on system-on-chip (SoC) development work the company has done for its own products since the early 2000s, according to industry sources cited by ZDNet Korea. LG declined to confirm the report when contacted.
2026-07-02
digitimes.com 2026-07-02
Despite rising concerns over memory price hikes, Apple's PCB supply chain has seen little change to the company's 2026 order pull-in schedule as of the second quarter, according to people familiar with the PCB industry.
2026-07-02
global.morningstar.com 2026-07-02 Morningstar
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2026-07-01
www.odaily.news 2026-07-01 odaily.news
In a research note released on June 26, UBS provided a more detailed picture of the spreading demand within China's AI hardware chain: demand for AI infrastructure remains robust, and the pull factors now extend beyond GPUs to include PCBs, optical interconnects, liquid cooling, SiC substrates, and optical communication materials.
2026-07-01
tomshardware.com 2026-07-01 Jowi Morales
A research firm says that PC deliveries for the first quarter of 2026 fell by 7%, with the entire industry expected to ship 14.4% less units for the entire year.
2026-07-01
www.benzinga.com 2026-07-01 Benzinga
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2026-07-01
www.odaily.news 2026-07-01 odaily.news
In a research note released on June 26, UBS provided a more detailed picture of the spreading demand within China's AI hardware chain: demand for AI infrastructure remains robust, and the pull factors now extend beyond GPUs to include PCBs, optical interconnects, liquid cooling, SiC substrates, and optical communication materials.
2026-07-01
digitimes.com 2026-07-01
Cloud AI demand is reshaping the seasonal cycle of the semiconductor industry, with capacity tightness spreading from front-end manufacturing to back-end packaging and testing. Since late 2025, outsourced semiconductor assembly and test, or OSAT, capacity has tightened steadily. New capacity added in 2026 has also been filled quickly, prompting multiple IC design houses to lock in capacity and pus
2026-07-01
digitimes.com 2026-07-01
SK Hynix's latest senior hiring drive has reignited debate in South Korea's semiconductor industry, with the move seen as more than routine R&D reinforcement and as a sign that competition in the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) market has entered a new stage. As AI chips demand more from memory, logic design, advanced process nodes, and packaging integration, talent with system semiconductor and found
2026-07-01
digitimes.com 2026-07-01
GigaDevice Technology Group has warned investors of heightened stock trading risks following its share price surge in recent weeks. The Chinese chipmaker said the move has lifted valuation levels well above industry averages, while cyclical swings in the memory market could later pressure earnings, a concern with potential relevance for global semiconductor investors.
2026-07-01
digitimes.com 2026-07-01
As the AI wave drives rapid growth across the global semiconductor industry, the upstream electronic materials supply chain has become a key bottleneck for AI-related shipments. To keep pace with AI investment, Qnity was spun off from US chemical giant DuPont and listed independently in November 2025.
2026-07-01
digitimes.com 2026-07-01
South Korea's plan to send Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix into a new memory hub in Gwangju and South Jeolla is drawing scrutiny from Taiwan and China, as Seoul defends the project against political criticism at home and questions over whether another major memory buildout could test the industry cycle.
2026-07-01
mashable.com 2026-07-01 Mashable
Home > Tech Nvidia resurrects older graphics cards as RAM demands impact tech prices The RTX 3060 is back.  By  Alex Perry  on  June 30, 2026 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Flipboard Well that's nice, I suppose. Credit: VCG/VCG via Getty Images Nvidia has reintroduced some old hardware to the market, but not at an especially agreeable price. Tom's Hardware reported that Nvidia has q
2026-06-30
www.digitimes.com 2026-06-30 digitimes
AI demand in 2026 is no longer confined to GPUs, but is broadening into ASICs, networking, PMICs, and a wide range of peripheral ICs, tightening capacity across both 8-inch mature processes and 12-inch advanced nodes. CoWoS's advanced packaging and HBM... Some subscribers prefer to save their log-in information so they do not have to enter their User ID and Password each time they
2026-06-30
digitimes.com 2026-06-30
AI demand in 2026 is no longer confined to GPUs, but is broadening into ASICs, networking, PMICs, and a wide range of peripheral ICs, tightening capacity across both 8-inch mature processes and 12-inch advanced nodes. CoWoS's advanced packaging and HBM capacity are also set for a prolonged supply shortage, effectively rewriting the foundry industry's business cycle.
2026-06-30
digitimes.com 2026-06-30
Memory pricing pressure continues to intensify. Contract prices have already recorded substantial gains for two consecutive quarters in the first half of 2026. The pace of quarterly increases may now moderate as the pricing base climbs higher. Still, the memory industry remains firmly in a seller's market. Supply constraints have spread beyond high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and premium DRAM products
2026-06-30
digitimes.com 2026-06-30
For more than a decade, Apple built one of the industry's most profitable business models by using its purchasing power to drive down memory and component costs before turning hardware upgrades into high-margin revenue. The AI-driven boom in HBM and DRAM is now challenging that strategy.
2026-06-30
digitimes.com 2026-06-30
As AI demand continues to fuel global semiconductor investment, customers are keeping wafer starts strong, and TSMC is accelerating its push into 2nm-and-below nodes as well as advanced packaging technologies such as CoWoS. Industry sources said the AI-driven investment wave is now spreading beyond foundries into the equipment, materials, factory engineering, and inspection supply chains.
2026-06-30
digitimes.com 2026-06-30
Memory price inflation has emerged as one of the biggest challenges facing the consumer electronics industry, with Apple, Microsoft, and Nintendo all having signaled product price increases as widening supply-demand gaps continue to drive up memory costs.