After Texas Instruments (TI) announced its latest round of price increases, another major chipmaker has also announced price hikes. According to ijiwei, NXP Semiconductors has issued a price adjustment notice stating that certain products will see price changes starting April 1, 2026. The notice st...

As traditional copper-based electrical transmission reaches physical limits, the semiconductor industry is increasingly turning to optical transmission technologies, with UMC joining the trend. HyperLight and UMC, along with the foundry’s wholly owned subsidiary Wavetek, announced a strategic part...

Shortly after securing major chip supply deals with NVIDIA and AMD in February, Meta Platforms unveiled a roadmap for four internally developed chips through 2027. The company plans to introduce them at roughly six-month intervals, with each designed for an expected lifespan of more than five years,...

Recently, a research team led by Prof. Ouxin at the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with the team of Prof. Tobias J. Kippenberg at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Prof. Christian Koos at Karlsruhe In...

As US-China tech tensions escalate, Beijing’s controls on strategic minerals like tungsten are rattling the supply chain. Among these, tungsten hexafluoride (WF₆), made from high-purity tungsten powder and fluorine gas, spiked in early 2026, with Korean and Japanese suppliers hiking prices 70–...