Amid a rebound in memory and foundry performance, Samsung Electronics said Tuesday its third-quarter operating profit likely jumped 32% year-on-year to 12.1 trillion won ($8.5 billion), far exceeding market expectations of roughly 10 trillion won, according to Reuters, ZDNet and the Chosun Daily. ...

Chip packaging and testing giant Amkor Technology has officially broken ground on its new advanced packaging campus in Peoria, Arizona, marking a major expansion of its U.S. manufacturing footprint. Amkor initially planned to invest USD 2 billion to build a packaging and testing plant in the Fiv...

With semiconductor giants gearing up for 2nm-class mass production, SEMI, announced in its press release that worldwide spending on 300mm wafer fab equipment is set to exceed $100 billion for the first time in 2025, rising 7% to $107 billion. Meanwhile, investment in 300mm wafer fab equipment is pro...

Amid mounting speculation of a coming memory supercycle driven by tight supply, ADATA Chairman Simon Chen said on October 13 that the market has become “so strong it’s almost a headache,” TechNews and Liberty Times report. Notably, he also refuted rumors that the top memory makers plan to resu...

With Samsung set to report its third-quarter earnings on October 14, industry sources expect the company is poised to post its strongest Q3 profit since 2022, potentially crossing the 10 trillion won ($7.11 billion) mark, according to Reuters and Business Korea. Reuters attributes Samsung’s str...