Recently, ROHM announced that it will integrate its own R&D and manufacturing expertise in gallium nitride (GaN) power devices with the process technologies of long-term partner TSMC. The company plans to establish a dedicated production system at its Hamamatsu facility by 2027 to meet surging d...

NVIDIA’s GPUs and SK hynix’s HBM currently dominate the AI computing landscape. But the industry is already looking beyond HBM as new memory technologies emerge to address the growing bottleneck of data movement. According to South Korean outlet Global Economic News, as large-scale AI models exp...

Memory isn’t the only segment seeing sharp price increases amid AI-driven supply constraints. Ijiwei, citing a client notice, reports that Texas Instruments (TI) is set to implement a new round of price hikes starting April 1, with adjustments ranging up to 85%. The report notes that the new pr...

Amid the ongoing global memory shortage, Chinese memory makers are pushing aggressively to capture a bigger slice of the market. According to Tom’s Hardware, YMTC, the nation’s NAND heavyweight, has officially entered the PCIe 5.0 SSD arena with its first commercial offering, the PC550. Accor...

Conflict in the Middle East triggered by tensions between the U.S. and Iran is rattling energy markets, raising concerns for the semiconductor industry. According to Commercial Times, as demand for AI chips surges, the industry’s reliance on stable power supplies continues to grow. For example, TS...