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The AI boom is tightening an important but often overlooked part of the chip supply chain, with global readers likely to feel the effects through higher costs, delayed capacity, and uneven access to advanced processors. As demand for CPUs, GPUs, and ASICs rises, ABF substrate supply is tightening, and the squeeze is expected to last for years.
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Taiwan's AI hardware supply chain remained strong in June, as substrate and CCL makers posted sharp annual gains driven by demand for AI servers, ASICs, and high-performance computing. The latest sales data suggest the upgrade cycle is broadening beyond one segment, with advanced ABF substrates and high-end CCL benefiting from higher specifications, better pricing, and rising AI content. For inves
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Ion Electronic Materials reported June 2026 consolidated revenue of NT$51.852 million (US$1.61 million), up 30% from a year earlier, as demand for advanced gases continued to expand. First-half consolidated revenue reached NT$315 million, down 3% from the same period in 2025, mainly because equipment revenue was absent.
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Taiwan's silicon foundry industry posted a strong performance in June 2026, with aggregate revenue reaching US$15,131.2 million, up 5.9% from May and 54.0% from a year earlier — underscoring the sector's continued ride on AI and advanced-node chip demand.
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The AI race is expanding from computing power to data transmission, making optical interconnects a critical battleground for next-generation AI infrastructure.
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Samsung Electronics is developing advanced packaging technology that combines high-bandwidth memory (HBM), logic chips and silicon photonics (SiPh) as it seeks to address the rising power consumption and data-transfer bottlenecks facing AI data centers.
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US President Donald Trump recently claimed that Taiwan's TSMC will double the size of its Arizona fab project, reviving attention on his goal of raising the US share of the global chip market to 50% before the end of his term. TSMC declined to comment on the report, but investors may press the company on the issue at its second-quarter 2026 earnings call.
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Trusval Technology posted record revenue in the second quarter and first half of 2026, supported by demand tied to global AI infrastructure buildouts and continued expansion of advanced process and advanced packaging capacity by semiconductor makers. The company said order visibility has now extended through 2027.
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Six-inch silicon carbide (SiC) substrates, a third-generation semiconductor product that has faced oversupply and falling prices for the past two years, have clearly bottomed out and are even starting to recover as capacity remains constrained and demand emerges across multiple sectors. Semiconductor distributors say supply is now tight, and customers who want to buy more must pay more, with new o
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United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) is moving into silicon photonics, positioning itself to address one of the defining bottlenecks in artificial-intelligence data centers: the speed at which chips can talk to one another. In doing so, the mature-node specialist is turning Singapore into a manufacturing base for a technology that uses light rather than electrical signals to move data across AI clus
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2026-07-14
Reports that Meta is considering leasing out idle AI computing capacity have rattled investors. But treating Meta's predicament as a warning sign for the entire AI industry is a classic case of overgeneralization.
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2026-07-14
German automotive supplier and chipmaker Bosch has begun sample production at its first US semiconductor factory after finalizing an agreement for up to US$225 million in federal funding. Commercial production of silicon carbide chips at the Roseville, California, site is expected to begin in 2026.
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Liying said revenue reached a quarterly record of NT$108 million in the second quarter of 2026, crossing the NT$100 million (US$3.11 million) mark for the first time as strong demand for AI chips kept semiconductor utilization rates high. The company also reported record first-half revenue of NT$206 million, reflecting continued demand for its circular-economy services tied to waste hydrofluoric a
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South Korea's exports surpassed US$100 billion in a single month for the first time in June 2026, raising expectations that the country could exceed US$1 trillion in annual exports this year. While the milestone underscores the strength of South Korea's export sector, it has also renewed debate over the economy's growing dependence on semiconductors.
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2026-07-14
Rambus has introduced a new DDR5 9600 server RDIMM chipset aimed at faster, denser data center memory systems. The move matters beyond one supplier because higher bandwidth and better power efficiency are becoming essential for AI inference, cloud computing, and HPC platforms used by businesses and consumers worldwide.
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Integrated Service Technology Inc. (iST) reported June 2026 consolidated revenue of about NT$426 million (US$13.24 million), up 10.47% from May and down 1.56% year on year. The Taiwan-based chip validation and analysis provider said the result reflected stronger demand tied to AI chip validation and a spillover effect from capacity constraints at packaging and testing plants.
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