The U.S. Department of Commerce announced on June 24 the expansion of SelectTalentUSA, a joint initiative with the Departments of Labor and Education. The program, designed to provide technical assistance to foreign businesses in delivering recruitment and training programs for their U.S. workforce,...

Orders for thermal compression (TC) bonders from South Korean semiconductor equipment manufacturers are experiencing a surge, fueled by Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix ramping up their high-bandwidth memory (HBM) production. TC bonders play a pivotal role in HBM production by employing thermal comp...

On June 21, ASE Group announced that ASE Semiconductor will collaborate with Hung Ching Construction to build a K28 plant in Kaohsiung. The project is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2026 and will focus on end testing of advanced packaging processes, and high-performance computing ...

According to a report from Reuters, it’s rumored that ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is collaborating with American chip designer Broadcom to develop an advanced AI processor, which could provide ByteDance with a steady supply of high-end chips. On June 24th, Reuters’ report cited s...

According to a report by Korean media outlet Business Korea, SK Hynix recently shared its latest breakthrough on its 3D DRAM at VLSI 2024 last week, announcing that the manufacturing yield of its 5-layer stacked 3D DRAM has reached 56.1%. This means that out of roughly 1,000 3D DRAM units manu...