ARTERY Technology is gearing up for a Taipei Exchange listing in late January 2026. The MCU supplier is pivoting to performance-driven applications like drones and edge AI to escape margin pressure in China’s crowded low-end market. Its strategy hinges on developing more advanced 28nm chips.
Foxconn is replicating its massive Chinese factory-city model in India, hiring tens of thousands for iPhone production. At the same time, Japanese semiconductor firms Rohm and AOI Electronics are forming key manufacturing partnerships with Indian companies like Tata and Kaynes.
A rumor claimed Asus would start selling its own RAM by the second half of 2026 to combat ongoing shortages. The company has now flatly denied those plans, stating that building a memory chip factory is a multi-year, high-risk endeavor that wouldn’t solve the current supply crisis.
The story of a covert Chinese lab building a working EUV lithography machine is falling apart. A new analysis reveals the prototype is a nonfunctional collection of mismatched parts, incapable of making a single chip.
TSMC is struggling under the weight of overwhelming AI demand from clients like NVIDIA and AMD. The chip giant faces severe labor shortages and skyrocketing capital spending as it races to expand capacity. This “one-man show” in the foundry market is creating major bottlenecks.
Samsung’s chip fabrication business is on a serious hot streak. After landing deals with Apple and Tesla, it’s now reportedly in talks to manufacture Google’s most powerful AI chips. This could be a game-changer for the semiconductor industry’s balance of power.
According to a Reuters report, scientists in Shenzhen have completed a prototype extreme ultraviolet lithography machine. The development, led by former ASML engineers, could put China on a path to producing its own advanced chips years ahead of some projections.
Chip interconnect specialist Arteris is moving to acquire security startup Cycuity. The deal aims to give engineers better tools to protect data as it flows through complex semiconductors, a growing concern for everything from data centers to cars.
Intel has lost its latest legal challenge in a long-running EU antitrust case and must pay a €237 million fine. The penalty stems from “naked restrictions,” where Intel paid PC makers to delay AMD-powered products between 2002 and 2006. This closes a major chapter in a legal saga that began in 2009.
The US has uncovered a major smuggling operation that moved over $160 million in restricted Nvidia AI chips to China. The scheme used falsified documents to bypass export controls, with funds traced back to China.
