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Broadcom, Applied Materials, GlobalFoundries, Meta, and Synopsys are partnering with UCLA Samueli to create a US$125 million Semiconductor Hub to accelerate research and workforce development in AI-driven chip technologies, promising global impacts on computing speed, energy efficiency, and applications from healthcare to transportation while strengthening US competitiveness and innovation globall
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AMD CEO Lisa Su pushed back against concerns of an AI bubble on May 22, saying demand is "absolutely real" and that the industry remains in an early phase of growth.
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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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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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Nanya Technology plans to raise 2026 capital expenditure above NT$52 billion (US$1.64 billion), with chairman Tzou Ming-jen saying the DRAM maker will accelerate new fab construction to capture AI-led memory demand. Equipment installation is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2027, followed by mass production in the second half.
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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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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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Specialty memory design company AP Memory is positioning itself to capture growth momentum from stack silicon capacitors (S-SiCap). The company said its discrete S-SiCap products, also known as discrete silicon capacitors (IPD), will begin small-volume shipments in the second quarter of 2026, making it the first supplier qualified for Intel's embedded multi-die interconnect bridge (EMIB) advanced
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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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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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Alliance Material Co. (AMC), a Taiwan-based advanced semiconductor materials supplier, said its balance film anti-warpage material has entered customer validation and is expected to begin mass production in the second half of 2026, as AI chip demand drives a new wave of advanced packaging expansion.
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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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2026-05-22
Advanced packaging designs are approaching the physical limitations of wafers as AI, HPC, and heterogeneous integration rapidly evolve. Subsequently, Panel Level Packaging (PLP) technology has drawn significant industry attention. Global semiconductor equipment manufacturer Lam Research announced the official establishment of its PLP Center of Excellence (CoE) in Salzburg, Austria, aimed at streng
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2026-05-22
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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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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2026-05-22
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Washington signals its intent to lead the quantum computing revolution with a $2 billion investment and equity stakes.
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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 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
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2026-05-22
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.