According to its press release, imec announced a leadership transition, appointing Patrick Vandenameele as its next CEO effective April 2026, while sharpening its focus on the rising demands of AI chipmaking. At the same time, the institute reported breakthroughs in single-patterning High-NA EUV lit...

Amid circulating rumors that NVIDIA may drop SOCAMM1 (Small Outline Compression Attached Memory Module) in favor of SOCAMM2 due to technical challenges, Etoday and DealSite indicate that the U.S. AI chip giant has placed next-year SOCAM module orders with Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron, likely distri...

According to Bloomberg, Kioxia expects NAND storage demand to grow by about 20% annually, fueled by rising AI data center demand. To address this growth, the company announced the start of operations at Fab2 (K2) in the Kitakami Plant, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. As its press release highlights, Fab2�...

With top memory makers reportedly raising prices amid tight supply, The Chosun Daily, citing TrendForce, highlights that by the end of Q3 2025, global DRAM inventories averaged just 3.3 weeks—matching the lows of 2018 and signaling a supercycle in the memory market could be on the way. The repo...

According to South Korean outlet The Bell, Samsung has reportedly begun mass production of its next-generation application processor, the Exynos 2600, ahead of expectations—the company’s first chip built on the SF2 (first-generation 2nm) process. As the report notes, a key reason Samsung bega...