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2026-07-02
digitimes.com
2026-07-02
Qualcomm recently launched its Dragonfly platform, signaling a deeper push into cloud artificial intelligence and intensifying competition with MediaTek. For global readers, the move highlights how chip suppliers are jockeying to win long-term contracts from major cloud providers, where design wins can shape revenue, supply chains, and future AI infrastructure.
2026-07-02
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2026-07-02
Fujifilm India said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Gujarat State Electronics Mission, under the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of Gujarat, to explore opportunities for manufacturing semiconductor materials in India and strengthening domestic supply chain capabilities.
2026-07-02
digitimes.com
2026-07-02
Apple is once again exploring Chinese memory suppliers as a prolonged shortage driven by artificial intelligence (AI) demand reshapes the semiconductor supply chain, according to a Bloombergreport.
2026-07-01
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2026-07-01
ET Telecom
2026-07-01
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2026-07-01
A crude oil shortage tied to the US-Iran war is raising concern about naphtha, a refinery byproduct used deep in industrial supply chains. While a direct semiconductor shortage is not yet seen, higher input costs are already spreading, and global manufacturers may face longer-term pressure if disruptions persist worldwide.
2026-07-01
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2026-07-01
South Korea is moving to build a complete semiconductor supply chain modeled on Taiwan's technology corridor, but Gudeng chairman Bill Chiu said the hardest part to replicate is not science parks or fabrication plants, but Taiwan's deeply rooted supply chain culture.
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.
2026-06-30
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2026-06-30
Arm Holdings says its chip architecture has crossed the 50% threshold in the hyperscale cloud market, a milestone in a segment long dominated by Intel and AMD. The SoftBank-backed chip designer is now pushing further into the hardware business itself, even as supply chains strain under the weight of the AI infrastructure buildout.
2026-06-30
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2026-06-30
China's silicon carbide (SiC) supply chain is finding a new growth engine as AI strains data-center power systems, extending a market long driven by electric vehicles.
2026-06-30
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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
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2026-06-30
Microcontroller customers are accelerating shipments into the first half of 2026 as higher production costs ripple through the supply chain, with global implications for electronics pricing and availability. Industry sources said buyers are seeking to secure supply before further increases, while weak demand and AI-related capacity pressure continue to shape the market.
2026-06-30
digitimes.com
2026-06-30
TSMC is accelerating CoWoS capacity expansion while also pushing ahead with next-generation panel-level packaging, CoPoS, aiming to use a new "round-to-square" architecture to break through cost and capacity bottlenecks in large AI chip packaging and build its next competitive moat.
2026-06-30
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2026-06-30
Qnity, the independent company spun off from US chemicals giant DuPont, is ramping up investment in Taiwan as the island cements its role at the center of the global AI hardware supply chain. Asia-Pacific president Dennis Chen said in an interview with DIGITIMESthat future spending will focus on three main battlegrounds: advanced packaging, co-packaged optics (CPOs), and thermal management.
2026-06-29
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2026-06-29
24/7 Wall St.
Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU | MU Price Prediction) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) just reported earnings that expose who holds the AI era’s supply chain leverage. Micron posted a record fiscal Q3 with an 84.9% non-GAAP gross margin. Apple delivered its best March quarter ever at $111.184 billion while flagging reliance on third parties for components as a core risk.
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2026-06-29
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2026-06-29
Yahoo Finance
Micron Extorts the Supply Chain to Leave Apple Carrying the Consumer Backlash
Alex Sirois
June 29, 2026 3 min read
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2026-06-29
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2026-06-29
Crypto Briefing
TSMC accelerates local DRAM supply chain with Winbond collaboration
The chip giant is teaming up with Winbond to build 3D wafer-on-wafer stacked DRAM in Taiwan, targeting edge AI workloads
2026-06-29
eetimes.com
2026-06-29
Pablo Valerio
As U.S. regulators focus on supply chain transparency, China's expanding presence in Latin America has emerged as a major strategic challenge.
2026-06-29
digitimes.com
2026-06-29
Kunlunxin, the semiconductor subsidiary of Chinese search engine giant Baidu, is targeting a US$50 billion valuation for its Hong Kong public offering. The company is also asking investors to commit to buying its chips as a condition of participation, according to The Information, underscoring the competitive dynamics shaping chip makers as Beijing moves to strengthen its domestic AI supply chain.
2026-06-29
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2026-06-29
Below are the most-read DIGITIMES Asiastories from the week of June 22-28, 2026:
2026-06-29
digitimes.com
2026-06-29
China is accelerating its push into fourth-generation semiconductors, with the country's first fully integrated industrial project for ultra-wide-bandgap semiconductor materials set to be built in Zhengzhou. The project aims to strengthen domestic capabilities in diamond-based semiconductor materials for AI chips, advanced communications and electric vehicles, while expanding China's presence beyo