With silicon carbide (SiC) offering superior heat resistance, voltage tolerance, and power efficiency over traditional silicon, global leaders like Infineon and Wolfspeed are racing ahead. Now, South Korea is stepping up too—Maeil Business Newspaper reports that Busan has opened the nation’s fir...

According to The Elec, citing industry sources, Samsung is outsourcing the production of photomasks — vital components in chipmaking — for the first time. As the report indicates, Samsung is said to be outsourcing lower-end photomasks for memory chips, signaling a strategy to channel resources ...

According to TrendForce's latest memory spot price trend report, regarding DRAM, although DDR4 supply remains tight, the price surge has made it difficult for buyers to keep up, leading to limited trading volumes despite the price hikes. In NAND, the spot market is seen with price increases, recover...

According to EE Times China, during a report on China Unicom’s Sanjiangyuan data center, China’s CCTV News unexpectedly revealed a table titled “Comparison of Key Parameters Between Domestic and NV Cards.” The table highlighted how homegrown AI chips deployed at the data center — including...

As China pushes through semiconductor independence by ramping up domestic AI chips to counter NVIDIA, the country is reportedly taking another major step toward self-reliance as SMIC is said to be testing a deep-ultraviolet (DUV) lithography machine developed by local start-up Yuliangsheng, as revea...