TOPPAN and Broadcom open Singapore plant for AI substrates
The 95,000-square-meter facility in Jurong marks TOPPAN’s first overseas FC-BGA base and Broadcom’s push to secure critical packaging materials for high-speed AI processors.
Semiconductors & AI Hardware
RSSMemory, foundry, equipment and materials across Korea, China and Japan — and the export rules that bound them.
OCI anchors Jeonbuk chip materials hub with acid expansion
The chemical maker will lift Gunsan phosphoric acid capacity to 30,000 tons as South Korea commits 45 billion won to anchor an…
TSMC weighs second US chip hub in Texas as orders expand
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is evaluating up to six wafer fabs in Dallas to serve American customers that generated…
China Gallium Export Controls Deplete Western Chip Stockpiles
Prolonged licensing friction under Beijing's trade notices leaves compound chipmakers and defense radar programs facing tight raw…
SK hynix validates HBM5 with TSMC on next-generation CoWoS
The South Korean chipmaker secured TSMC's partner award after completing thermal and electrical trials on eighth-generation…
TSMC plans to lift wafer foundry prices by 3% to 6% from 2027
Leading-edge 2-nanometer and 3-nanometer lines face the steepest increases as AI chip demand fills foundry capacity through 2030…
Synopsys certifies TSMC A14 EDA flows and tapes out 64G UCIe
The milestone expands 2-nanometer IP libraries for HBM4 memory and CoWoS packaging, locking fabless chipmakers into angstrom-era…
TSMC raises 2nm wafer target to 120,000 units as orders surge
The foundry lifted internal production goals by pulling forward capacity additions after Apple, Nvidia and three other anchor…
TSMC adds five packaging fabs in Chiayi to ease AI crunch
Taiwan's consultation for a 198.65-hectare Chiayi Science Park expansion clears the path for TSMC to construct five more advanced…
Vanguard and NXP open Singapore fab, weigh second chip plant
The $6.7 billion joint facility begins risk production at 40nm to 130nm nodes, offering Western automotive and AI hardware…
Evolution Metals expands Korea magnet plant to 10,000 tons
The US firm is scaling its Pohang facility ten-fold to 10,000 metric tons ahead of a January 2027 Pentagon ban on Chinese rare…
Qualcomm keeps TSMC for 2nm processors, shutting out Samsung Foundry
The mobile chipmaker affirmed its exclusive production tie to TSMC despite wafer costs topping $30,000, leaving Samsung with…
China Substrate Makers Speed Glass Core Lines for AI Chips
BOE and domestic suppliers deployed automated through-glass via tools to challenge Korean rivals for next-generation…
US and Japan coordinate on yttrium to counter China chip bottleneck
Bilateral talks target alternative refining and recycling channels after Chinese export curbs sent high-purity oxide prices from…
TSMC begins 1.4nm pilot wafer runs ahead of 2028 volume rampMembers
The foundry accelerated trial activity across Hsinchu and Taichung as it pre-empts rival nodes from Intel and Samsung for…
Korean power gear makers book grid orders on US fab growth
Surging battery storage deployments and grid bottlenecks across North America lift combined order backlogs at South Korea's three…
Commerce exempts South Korean biopharma from import tariffs on Sept. 29
New BIS rules grant zero-tariff entry for antibody-drug conjugates and cell therapies from 19 allied jurisdictions, shielding…
Nvidia locks up 37% of global HBM supply for AI accelerators
Surging procurement commitments reach $279 billion as the chip designer and cloud rivals absorb 85% of advanced DRAM lines,…
KKR deploys record $3 billion into South Korea AI hardware
The private equity firm is targeting data center platforms, enterprise services and clean generation capacity tied to advanced…
SK hynix weighs Intel alliance for U.S. memory productionMembers
Preliminary talks explore front-end wafer fabrication at Intel's Ohio site alongside SK hynix's $4 billion Indiana packaging…
Taiwan breaks ground on TSMC packaging base to relieve CoWoS limits
The 88.7-hectare Baipu park will host tool-validation labs and supplier lines to ease advanced chip packaging constraints for AI…
SK hynix taps HanmiGlobal for $4B Indiana HBM packaging fab
The project management contract solidifies construction of America's first advanced AI memory facility in West Lafayette ahead of…
TSMC and Samsung set High-NA EUV roadmaps for sub-2nm nodes
The foundries committed to ASML's next-generation lithography tools to bridge patterning limits, facing machine costs near $400…
Chinese rare earth suppliers halt shipments to US customers
Hold-ups of yttrium and indium cargo follow Beijing's blacklisting of the Responsible Business Alliance, leaving aerospace and…