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Hangzhou Silan Microelectronics said its first-half 2026 profit is set to rise sharply, driven by revenue growth, product upgrades, and fair-value gains on financial assets. The outlook matters for global semiconductor markets because it points to resilient demand across automotive, industrial, and energy applications despite rising costs and competition.

Beyond AI: Resilient consumer demand widens semiconductor supply crunch

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digitimes.com 2026-07-16

Reports of lengthening semiconductor lead times have become increasingly common in recent months, highlighting that the imbalance between chip supply and demand has not eased but is instead spreading across a broader range of end markets. Taiwanese IC design companies believe that while booming cloud AI investment remains the primary driver behind today's capacity constraints across semiconductors

CXMT IPO filing reveals Micron and Samsung alumni at heart of China's DRAM push

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digitimes.com 2026-07-16

The IPO prospectus of Changxin Memory Technologies (CXMT), filed ahead of a planned listing on Shanghai's STAR Market, lays bare the international talent base the company has assembled to compete against the established leaders of the global DRAM industry — and raises a subtler question about the residency arrangements of its founder.

Korean prosecutors raid Rambus, Montage, and Renesas as memory-interface chip probe goes global

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digitimes.com 2026-07-16

South Korean prosecutors have opened a criminal front in a widening international investigation into alleged price-fixing of the small but critical chips that link AI processors to high-speed memory, raiding the local operations of three global suppliers on July 15.

Nvidia doubles down on the land of the rising GPU, wiring Blackwell into Japan's science, banks, factories and cars

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digitimes.com 2026-07-16

Nvidia has laid out a sweeping expansion of its Japanese footprint. The company is moving beyond one-off supercomputer wins to embed its Blackwell-generation chips and software across the country's research labs, banks, hospitals, factories, and automakers. The breadth signals that Japan is being positioned as a full "AI ecosystem" for Nvidia, not a single-sector customer. It's a hedge that spread

MCU lead times stretch, but industry holds the line against a pandemic-style order rush

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digitimes.com 2026-07-16

Microcontrollers (MCUs), widely used across industrial automation, medical devices, and consumer electronics, are experiencing longer delivery times as both wafer fabrication and semiconductor packaging lead times continue to extend. Industry suppliers said customers accelerated orders and pulled in shipments during the first half of 2026 amid rising prices across the supply chain, with urgent ord

CXMT IPO raises fresh capital, but its own prospectus map shows distance still to close

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digitimes.com 2026-07-16

The IPO prospectus filed by Changxin Memory Technologies (CXMT) ahead of its planned listing on Shanghai's STAR Market offers an unusually candid portrait of the global DRAM industry it is entering, including detailed profiles of the three incumbents it must eventually displace, and a frank accounting of how far behind it still sits.

India trims chip subsidies but widens their reach as it courts electronics supply chain away from China

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digitimes.com 2026-07-16

India approved two large incentive packages on July 15 that together recast how New Delhi subsidizes electronics manufacturing: learner-per-project chip subsidies spread across a much broader slice of the value chain, paired with a new smartphone scheme designed to reward domestic components and homegrown brands rather than assembly alone. The twin moves signal a shift from simply attracting fabs

Commentary: CXMT IPO binds China's DRAM supply chain into one ecosystem

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digitimes.com 2026-07-16

CXMT's STAR Market IPO has become more than a fundraising exercise. The strategic placement roster shows how China's largest DRAM maker is using the capital market to connect semiconductor suppliers, AI cloud providers, device brands, automakers, and state-backed investors, reinforcing a domestic memory ecosystem.

ASML signals pricing power and a two-year capacity sprint as AI tightens the lithography bottleneck

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digitimes.com 2026-07-16

During the question-and-answer session of ASML's second-quarter 2026 earnings call on July 15, executives at the world's only maker of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography systems signaled that they now have room to raise prices and are preparing to expand output of their most important machines by roughly 30% in each of the next two years — all without building new cleanrooms. The tone confirmed

AI chips are running hotter — and Niching is betting its future on keeping them cool

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digitimes.com 2026-07-16

As AI chips and HPC chips continue to draw more power, major advanced packaging orders at ASE, Powertech Technology, and Amkor remain strong, lifting demand for heat spreaders. Semi-conductor materials supplier Niching incorporated heat spreader maker Ming Chun Yuan Micro Precise Technology into the group on July 1, 2026, and analysts expect the merger to lift revenue by 30% and gross margin by 10

CXMT outspends all peers on R&D as a share of revenue, IPO filing shows

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digitimes.com 2026-07-16

Across almost every competitive metric disclosed in its STAR Market IPO prospectus, Changxin Memory Technologies (CXMT) trails the established leaders of the global DRAM industry. There is one conspicuous exception: the share of revenue the company devotes to research and development has exceeded every peer in the comparison group for three consecutive years — and by a wide margin.

ASML Earnings: Long-Term Prospects Vastly Improved - Morningstar

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global.morningstar.com 2026-07-16 Morningstar

ASML Earnings: Long-Term Prospects Vastly Improved - Morningstar

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ASML Earnings: Long-Term Prospects Vastly Improved - Morningstar

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