According to a report by the Commercial Times, while TSMC, the global foundry leader, has established a plant in Kikuyo, Kumamoto City, Kyushu. ASE Technology Holdings (ASE), a giant in packaging industry, is setting up a plant in Kitakyushu as well. With these developments, Japan's semiconductor ...

Semiconductor giants like Intel, TSMC, Samsung and Micron have received huge amount of grants from the U.S. government, funded through the CHIPS and Science Act. However, chip making equipment maker Applied Materials is said to be in a different scenario. According to reports by Bloomberg and Tom’...

Intel not only reported earnings and forecasts that fell short of Wall Street expectations but also announced plans to cut more than 15% of its workforce, halt dividend payments for Q4 2024 (October-December), and reduce its full-year capital expenditure forecast by more than 20%. According to In...

As the battle of HBM intensifies between memory giants, the competition of NAND is also heating up. According to a report by Korean media outlet etnews, SK hynix is developing 400-layer NAND flash memory, aiming to get the technology ready for mass production by the end of 2025. Citing sources fa...

On July 31, IQE plc, the global supplier of compound semiconductor wafer products and advanced material solutions, announced the planned initial public offering (IPO) of the Group’s Taiwanese operating subsidiary (IQE Taiwan) on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE). The Group intends to list IQE Ta...