Taiwan's Intellectual Property and Commercial Court sentenced former TSMC engineer Chen Li-ming to 10 years in prison on April 27, 2026, for leaking 2-nanometer chip secrets to Tokyo Electron's Taiwan…
China's exports surged 27% in June to a record $412 billion, driven by a 57% jump in electronic components and AI hardware trade, the General Administration of Customs reported. The AI infrastructure …
Intel is investing €5bn ($5.7bn) to upgrade its Leixlip campus in Ireland, adding leading-edge equipment and automated track systems to boost production of Intel 3 silicon for Xeon 6 processors and fu…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is expected to report a fifth consecutive record quarterly profit of T$632.6 billion ($19.65 billion) for the second quarter, a 59% surge from a year earl…
TSMC and ASML, the two companies that form the foundational infrastructure layer of the AI boom, report Q2 2026 earnings on July 15 and 16 respectively, with TSMC posting NT$442.68 billion in June rev…
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has started mass-producing 12-inch silicon photonics wafers from its Fab 12i facility in Singapore, marking a commercial milestone for AI data center intercon…
TSMC is on track for a fifth consecutive quarter of record profit, driven by surging demand for AI chips, with Q2 2026 revenue expected at roughly $39.6 billion, up nearly 36% year-over-year. The Taiw…
TSMC is building two new advanced packaging plants at Chiayi Science Park in southern Taiwan, bringing the total to four facilities that are projected to generate over 300 billion Taiwan dollars ($9.3…
AI chip expectations are impossible to satisfy, said Gina Martin Adams, chief equity strategist at HB Wealth, as the sector's 83% surge earlier this year gives way to volatility and a reality check. T…
Dongfang Suanxin, a Shanghai chip startup founded in 2024 and led by Tsinghua professor Wei Shaojun, emerged from stealth with the DF1000 series, a 14nm AI processor delivering 520 teraflops of BF16 p…
TSMC reported a record monthly revenue of 442.68 billion NTD ($13.75 billion) in June 2026, a 67.9% increase year-over-year driven by AI data center expansion. The company also began high-volume manuf…
TSMC shares climbed ahead of its Q2 2026 earnings report on July 16, while SK Hynix shares pulled back after its Nasdaq debut on July 10, where the IPO raised between $26.5 billion and $28 billion and…
Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs warn that AI chip revenue forecasts for 2026 and 2027 have outpaced realistic capacity and demand trajectories, with sustained annual growth exceeding 30% seen as unsu…
South Korea's Kospi index plunged 9% on Monday, deepening a 27% loss over three weeks, as AI stock jitters collided with a retail debt crisis that saw brokerages liquidate over $100 million in retail …
Intel is spending €5 billion ($5.7 billion) to retool its Leixlip campus in County Kildare, Ireland, for AI chip production, upgrading the site to manufacture Xeon 6 and next-generation Xeon processor…
Intel invests $5.5 billion in a semiconductor factory in Ireland, part of its strategy to expand foundry operations and compete with TSMC, according to Intel vice president Naga Chandrasekaran. Irish …
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) reported a nearly 36% revenue increase in the first half of 2026, reaching 2.4 trillion new Taiwan dollars ($75 billion), driven by strong demand for …
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) reported a 36% year-over-year increase in second-quarter revenue to a record high, driven by AI demand from Nvidia and Apple, with AI chips now accoun…
A joint analysis from SEMI, McKinsey & Co. and the National Science Foundation warns that the US semiconductor industry could fall 88,000 to 157,000 workers short of the 189,000 needed by 2030, as eng…
TSMC posted a 36% year-over-year Q2 revenue surge to $39.6 billion, driven by sustained AI demand, and is expanding advanced packaging capacity in Chiayi, Taiwan with a $9.35 billion investment to add…