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2026 Trends: Memory for New AI Inference Demand | TrendForce

2026 Trends: Memory for New AI Inference Demand

Jun 12, 2026 | PDF

In January 2026, NVIDIA introduced the CMX Context Memory Storage Platform, managed by the BlueField‑4 DPU, to extend the memory hierarchy between local SSD and shared storage and address the massive...

Power Integrity Upgrades in AI Servers: Evolving Roles of Silicon Capacitors and MLCCs | TrendForce

Power Integrity Upgrades in AI Servers: Evolving Roles of Silicon Capacitors and MLCCs

Jun 11, 2026 | PDF

The need for power integrity in AI servers is extending from the board level directly into the package. This shift is driving a transition in capacitor technology, moving beyond a sole reliance on tra...

AI Servers Absorbing LPDRAM Capacity, Signaling Tight Supply as the New Norm | TrendForce

AI Servers Absorbing LPDRAM Capacity, Signaling Tight Supply as the New Norm

Jun 05, 2026 | PDF

Beyond full-rack solutions, NVIDIA is also actively promoting its standalone Vera CPU to capture the AI inference market. However, given the LPDRAM supply bottleneck, NVIDIA has decided to reduce the...

Mature Memory Structural Shortage: Price Plateau Era Arrives - 2H26 | TrendForce

Mature Memory Structural Shortage: Price Plateau Era Arrives - 2H26

Jun 02, 2026 | PDF

Capital shifts to high-performance chips have squeezed mature processes, triggering structural shortages in high-reliability memory. As value revaluation outpaces volume growth, market revenue surges....

ASIC Design and Service Competition Shifts from Chip Scale to Rack/POD Level | TrendForce

ASIC Design and Service Competition Shifts from Chip Scale to Rack/POD Level

May 28, 2026 | PDF

On February 16th 2026, MediaTek CEO Rick Tsai stated in his ISSCC 2026 keynote that the basic unit for measuring AI compute efficiency will no longer be just the AI chip, but the entire AI system, inc...

HBM Market Outlook:HBM Suppliers Seize Pricing Power as AI Demand Fuels Explosive Contract Price Surge | TrendForce

HBM Market Outlook:HBM Suppliers Seize Pricing Power as AI Demand Fuels Explosive Contract Price Surge

May 27, 2026 | PDF

Since 2H25, accelerated AI infrastructure buildouts by CSPs have surged HBM demand and crowded out conventional DRAM capacity, pushing the broader DRAM market into shortage. Constrained by annual pric...

AI Memory Demand Surge: HBM Memory and GPU Memory Bandwidth Transformation | TrendForce

AI Memory Demand Surge: HBM Memory and GPU Memory Bandwidth Transformation

May 18, 2026 | PDF

This report first explains why HBM plays a key role in the evolution of LLM and AIGC applications. It then examines the HBM upgrade roadmap and explores how heterogeneous memory integration strategies...

DeepSeek-V4: China's AI Hardware-Software Co-Design Strategy | TrendForce

DeepSeek-V4: China's AI Hardware-Software Co-Design Strategy

May 08, 2026 | PDF

As technical iteration narrows the capability gap between models, Chinese open-source models are expanding their global presence by compensating weaker hardware with software optimization and scale. U...

CPO Testing Challenges: TSMC COUPE & Taiwan Supply Chain | TrendForce

CPO Testing Challenges: TSMC COUPE & Taiwan Supply Chain

May 04, 2026 | PDF

On April 23, 2026, TSMC unveiled at the 2026 North America Technology Symposium its Compact Universal Photonic Engine (COUPE) platform built on Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) technology, with mass productio...

Optical Interconnect Supply Chain Restructuring and Opportunities in Response to Expanded US Export Controls | TrendForce

Optical Interconnect Supply Chain Restructuring and Opportunities in Response to Expanded US Export Controls

Apr 30, 2026 | PDF

As U.S. export controls extend from chips to AI infrastructure, the traditional optical interconnect industry is undergoing supply chain restructuring. While optical modules are not subject to blanket...

The 2026 Semiconductor Inflection Point: Scaling from 2nm GAA to the Era of ASIC Sovereignty | TrendForce

The 2026 Semiconductor Inflection Point: Scaling from 2nm GAA to the Era of ASIC Sovereignty

Apr 29, 2026 | PDF

The semiconductor industry is undergoing a structural shift in 2026, with competition moving beyond process node scaling toward system-level architecture. On the technology front, 2nm gate-all-around...

Defense Tech Transformation: Software-Defined Systems & Taiwan's Supply Chain Positioning | TrendForce

Defense Tech Transformation: Software-Defined Systems & Taiwan's Supply Chain Positioning

Apr 24, 2026 | PDF

Intensifying global geopolitical conflicts are driving up defense spending, and warfare is pivoting toward asymmetric and information warfare, making low-cost unmanned vehicles (UAVs) crucial. China i...

Crossing AI Memory Wall: Storage Layer Reallocation and HBF Analysis | TrendForce

Crossing AI Memory Wall: Storage Layer Reallocation and HBF Analysis

Apr 23, 2026 | PDF

In AI inference, MoE architectures and long-context processing have sharply increased memory-capacity requirements for model weights and KV cache, shifting the bottleneck from insufficient compute to...

The CPO Paradigm Shift in the AI Era: Strategic Opportunities for Taiwan’s Ecosystem and the Future of Interconnect Architecture | TrendForce

The CPO Paradigm Shift in the AI Era: Strategic Opportunities for Taiwan’s Ecosystem and the Future of Interconnect Architecture

Apr 22, 2026 | PDF

With the generative AI market expanding at a CAGR of over 35%, data throughput for a single large language model (LLM) training task has reached the exabyte (EB) level. As transmission speeds evolve t...

Deconstructing PLP Warpage: Low-Temp PSPI, Balance Films, and Supplier Analysis | TrendForce

Deconstructing PLP Warpage: Low-Temp PSPI, Balance Films, and Supplier Analysis

Apr 17, 2026 | PDF

For the current year of 2026, TSMC plans to establish a trial production line CoPoS through its subsidiary, VisEra, with trial production scheduled for 2027. Consequently, this year will be a critical...

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