Amid uncertainties surrounding Trump’s tariff policies, the question of whether production can be brought back to U.S. soil has drawn increasing attention. According to a report from Commercial Times, citing WIRED, the vast majority of American small and medium-sized enterprises say they remain he...

SK hynix saw its Q1 operating profit surging 158% year-over-year, fueled by booming AI chip sales and stockpiling ahead of potential U.S. tariffs, as per Reuters. Despite the upbeat results, the South Korean memory giant warns that elevated macro uncertainties like tariff policy could lead to demand...

As the HBM race heats up, TC (thermal compression) bonders, which stack chips onto processed wafers by employing thermal compression to bond, are in hot demand. Memory giants are scrambling to lock in orders, and according to Money Today, Hanmi Semiconductor is seeing a surge in overseas interest, e...

As per the latest issue of Nature Photonics, a research team from the University of Pennsylvania has developed the first programmable chip capable of using light to perform nonlinear neural network training. This breakthrough could significantly accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) training while...

China has recently introduced a new round of rare earth export controls. As reported by Reuters, Tesla CEO Elon Musk states on Tuesday that production of the company’s Optimus humanoid robots is being impacted by China’s restrictions on rare earth magnets. Musk previously states that he expects ...