The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) released the Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for July on August 1st. The report indicated that the Manufacturing PMI was 46.8 in July, down from 49.3 in June and below the market expectation of 48.8. This marks the fourth consecutive month of ...

As the battle of HBM intensifies between memory giants, the competition of NAND is also heating up. According to a report by Korean media outlet etnews, SK hynix is developing 400-layer NAND flash memory, aiming to get the technology ready for mass production by the end of 2025. Citing sources fa...

On July 31, IQE plc, the global supplier of compound semiconductor wafer products and advanced material solutions, announced the planned initial public offering (IPO) of the Group’s Taiwanese operating subsidiary (IQE Taiwan) on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE). The Group intends to list IQE Ta...

Japanese NAND flash giant Kioxia announced today (August 1st) that the building construction of Fab2 (K2) of its Kitakami Plant in Iwate Prefecture was completed in July. As demand is recovering, the company will gradually make capital investments while closely monitoring flash memory market trends....

According to a report from Commercial Times, IC design giant MediaTek is making its move into the AI accelerator sector. MediaTek CEO Rick Tsai emphasized that MediaTek aims to be the best partner for edge AI, focusing on advanced technologies and 3nm process to optimize the power consumption and e...