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Semiconductors
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TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, reported July revenue of NT$467.58 billion ($14.5 billion), up 44.7% year-on-year, driven by sustained demand for AI-related chips and high-performance computing components. The surge…
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Semiconductors
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Samsung Electronics has raised prices on new orders across its most advanced foundry processes by as much as 15%, according to two people familiar with the matter, as surging demand for AI chips eats up available manufacturing capacity…
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Semiconductors
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South Korea's Hanmi Semiconductor is betting roughly $91.4 million on the idea that advanced packaging — not just chipmaking — is where the next AI crunch will bite. The company announced Tuesday it will buy an existing factory in…
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Semiconductors
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Nokia Buys NXP's Arizona Fab to Make Indium Phosphide Chips for AI Data Centers Nokia has signed a deal to take over NXP Semiconductors' fab in Chandler, Arizona, and convert it into a production site for indium phosphide (InP) optical…
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Semiconductors
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Intel chief executive Lip-Bu Tan has spent $10 million of his own cash on company shares at the exact price ordinary investors paid in Intel's freshly completed $20 billion stock offering — a personal stake that says more about the foundry…
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CHIPS Communities United and the Sierra Club filed suit on Friday against the US Environmental Protection Agency, arguing the agency cleared two new substances for semiconductor manufacturing even though it admits it never measured how…
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ChangXin Memory Technologies has become the most valuable Chinese company in the world, three weeks after its blockbuster Shanghai debut. The DRAM maker ended Thursday's session with a market capitalization of US$524 billion, nudging past…
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Semiconductors
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China's SMIC Posts Profit Surge as AI Demand Fuels Foundry Race BEIJING — China's largest contract chipmaker reported Thursday that second-quarter profit more than tripled from a year earlier, blowing past analyst estimates as artificial…
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Semiconductors
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Samsung Pushes High-NA EUV Adoption to 1nm Node Around 2030 as Intel Races Ahead Samsung Electronics has confirmed it will delay the commercial deployment of ASML's High-NA EUV lithography until its 1nm process node, expected around 2030…
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Semiconductors
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SEOUL — The world bought $403.3 billion worth of semiconductors in the second quarter of 2026, up 35.1% from the first three months of the year, according to fresh figures from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). June alone…
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Semiconductors
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TSMC set another monthly sales record in July, with revenue up 44.7% from a year ago, as AI chip orders keep filling its newest production lines. The world's largest contract chipmaker said consolidated revenue reached NT$467.58 billion…
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Taiwan's government has restarted work on the long-delayed Longtan Science Park expansion in Taoyuan, a project that could clear the way for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co to build five new fabrication plants for its most advanced…