As TSMC accelerates its U.S. expansion with progress on its third Arizona fab, it still has to ship cutting-edge chips—like those for NVIDIA—back to Taiwan for advanced packaging. But that’s set to change. According to MoneyDJ, the foundry giant plans to break ground on two advanced packaging ...

On July 8, Cadence officially announced via its WeChat account that the U.S.-based company has recently decided to expand its collaboration with Samsung Foundry. The two parties have signed a new multi-year IP agreement to extend the deployment of Cadence® memory and interface IP solutions on Samsu...

BelGaN’s GaN power semiconductor plant in Belgium was shut down last year. According to a report from eeNews Europe, three consortia are reportedly interested in acquiring the facility, primarily for photonics applications. The report also notes that the plant had previously focused on automotive ...

According to TrendForce's latest memory spot price trend report, regarding DRAM, while DDR4 spot prices have experienced intermittent rises, this mainly reflects a correction of previously excessive increases, rather than an indication of oversupply. As for NAND flash, demand from the consumer marke...

Trump’s plan to slap a 50% tariff on copper imports sent Comex futures soaring as much as 17% on Tuesday, as per Reuters. But the impact goes beyond price spikes—copper is crucial to electric vehicles, semiconductors, defense systems, and consumer electronics, Reuters notes. According to Reut...