Amid China’s push to consolidate its semiconductor industry and strengthen chip self-sufficiency, AMEC—the country’s leading domestic supplier of etching and thin-film deposition tools—announced on December 18 plans to acquire a controlling stake in Sizone Technology, according to chinastart...

As memory giants ramp up HBM production at full throttle, they are eager to find strong allies in the supply chain. Fujifilm Holdings, a Japanese semiconductor materials supplier, is said to build a new facility in South Korea to meet the booming demand from local memory chipmakers, including SK hyn...