Shanghai AI Laboratory announced a breakthrough in the stable production of photoresists — one of the core materials used in semiconductor manufacturing. As a critical material in chip fabrication, the quality of photoresists directly determines chip performance and manufacturing yield. Backed ...

Intel’s turnaround appears to be gaining momentum. According to CNBC, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan said the company’s foundry business is making progress, with 18A process yields now improving by 7% to 8% per month, signaling advancement from earlier challenges. More significantly, Tan said the impro...

As AI accelerator leaders such as NVIDIA continue rolling out chips with increasingly larger compute die sizes, panel-level packaging is gaining momentum. Notably, Germany-headquartered SCHMID — an equipment provider for printed circuit board (PCB) and IC substrate manufacturing — said in an Inv...

China’s semiconductor equipment ambitions are gaining ground, with AMEC reportedly capable of producing some of the world’s most advanced chipmaking tools. Founder Gerald Yin Zhiyao said in an interview with state broadcaster CCTV that the company’s plasma etching technology has become an indu...

As per reports from TheElec, South Korean AHF producers including Solbrain, ENF Technology, and Huseong have begun sourcing anhydrous hydrogen fluoride from China starting this month, with prices rising roughly 40% compared with the beginning of the year. After processing the material into electroni...