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At the recent Plug and Play Silicon Valley May Summit, the semiconductor and supply chain sessions highlighted a critical shift toward hardware-level security, energy efficiency for AI, and AI-driven quality engineering. Startups, including Enclave Semiconductor, Bedrock Semiconductor, and Lattice, presented solutions aimed at securing and optimizing the global electronics ecosystem.
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InPsytech, the intellectual property unit of Egis Technology Group, announced on May 21 that it hired a former Altera CEO and ex-Intel executive as a senior strategy adviser to support global market expansion and large-scale growth. The firm said the appointment aims to leverage the adviser's semiconductor leadership experience to guide worldwide strategy and help scale the company's business in i
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Taiwan's semiconductor industry and the military implications of a potential cross-strait conflict dominated the aerospace and defense track on the second day of the Plug and Play Silicon Valley May Summit, as investors and defense technology executives described a geopolitical environment that is fundamentally reshaping where capital flows and why.
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AMD CEO Lisa Su appeared in Suzhou on May 20 to attend the launch ceremony for the second-phase expansion of Suzhou TF-AMD Semiconductor Co. (also known as Suzhou Tongfu Advanced Microelectronics), underscoring AMD's growing focus on advanced packaging capacity as AI and high-performance computing demand accelerate globally.
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Samsung Electronics and its union signed a provisional agreement late at night, about an hour before a scheduled May 21 strike, averting an industry estimate of more than KRW100 trillion (approx. US$66.8 billion) in supply chain disruption. The deal eases an immediate labor crisis but leaves unresolved structural conflicts and rising personnel costs.
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Forcelead Technology said it expects stable operations through 2026 as it rolls out a touch-TDDI product and pursues new automotive display opportunities, a development with implications for global suppliers and aftermarket channels as automakers adopt more advanced cockpit features. The company aims to protect margins while expanding beyond its core display business.
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Tata Group's semiconductor facility in Assam is expected to begin production soon, marking a significant milestone in India's push to build a domestic semiconductor manufacturing industry and strengthen its standing in global technology supply chains.
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On May 20, 2026, DIGITIMES held its Tech Forum, where senior analyst Jim Hsiao delivered a presentation, "AI server market outlook and trends amid the explosion of agent applications." In it, Hsiao explained that demand is rising sharply not only for x86 server CPUs from Intel and AMD, but also for Arm-based CPUs, which are expected to see explosive growth in 2026.
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Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Jae-yong quietly visited Taiwan on May 21 and met with MediaTek CEO Rick Tsai, according to semiconductor supply chain sources, in a move aimed at expanding Samsung's foundry business by securing another major customer after deals with Tesla and renewed work with AMD. Samsung declined to comment, and MediaTek had not issued an official response by press time.
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AMD said it plans to invest more than US$10 billion in Taiwan's technology ecosystem to accelerate AI infrastructure development, while also revealing a new strategic direction centered on anelevated fanout bridge(EFB)packaging ecosystem.
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Lam Research has opened a Panel-Level Packaging (PLP) Innovation Excellence Center in Salzburg, Austria, underscoring the company's move deeper into advanced packaging as customers explore panel-based processes. Aaron Fellis, corporate VP and GM of dielectric atomic layer deposition (ALD) products at Lam Research, said leading chip firms are testing PLP in R&D or alliances and that several custome
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BOE Technology, China's leading display panel maker, is expanding its push into new businesses beyond panels. The company said on the evening of May 20 that it had signed a three-year memorandum of understanding with US glass materials supplier Corning to cooperate in glass-based packaging substrates, foldable glass, perovskite glass substrates and optical interconnects.
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China AMOLED panel maker EverDisplay Optronics completed a board reshuffle and senior management overhaul after a board meeting on May 20, appointing a former Hua Hong Semiconductor executive as chairman and naming a new general manager as it builds a new leadership team. The changes included a slate of shareholder-representative directors and retained an existing director, the firm announced.
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Microsoft is in early discussions to provide AI servers powered by its in-house Maia chips to Anthropic, deepening ties between the two companies as cloud providers race to reduce dependence on Nvidia hardware and secure a stronger position in the AI infrastructure market.
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AMD CEO Lisa Su said the company is satisfied with its current CoWoS supply from TSMC, while noting that memory has become another pressure point in the AI chip supply chain.
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Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is reshaping the chipmaker's engineering culture and foundry strategy, confirming that 14A remains on track while revealing that early development has begun on next-generation 10A and 7A nodes.
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Nvidia has positioned its specialized LPX accelerator as a niche product designed specifically for low-latency, high-speed token generation rather than broad-market enterprise workloads. The hardware targets a narrow segment of service providers that operate premium, high-velocity token applications for select customer bases. While the architecture excels at rapid text decoding, its broader market
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Samsung Electronics is reportedly preparing to shift more of its gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductor strategy toward foundry services after struggling to secure customers for its own GaN devices and modules, according to The Elec.
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AMD CEO Lisa Su arrived in Taiwan on May 20, 2026, on a private jet and largely followed the same itinerary as her April 2025 visit, including a meeting with TSMC, a technology forum and dinner with Taiwan supply chain partners, and an about one-hour summit forum. This time, AMD also made the rare announcement that it will invest more than US$10 billion in Taiwan's industrial ecosystem to accelera