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↺4½d Infineon Techno…0.0%

2¼h: Research Bits: Aug. 10

2½h: Empowered Funds LLC Invests $754,000 in Tower Semiconductor Ltd. $TSEM

2½h: Volatile Corrosion Inhibitor Packets Market to Reach 160 Index by 2035 on Semiconductor Demand

2¾h: Here's Why Tower Semiconductor Stock Is Rocketing Higher Today

2¾h: Oxygen Purity Probes Market Semiconductor Purity Demands Drive 5.7% CAGR to 2035

2¾h: Assenagon Asset Management S.A. Acquires New Position in Lattice Semiconductor Corporation $LSCC

2¾h: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Reports Rise in July's Revenue

3h: Fire-Resistant Joint Systems Market to Reach 2035 on Semiconductor Fab Demand

3¼h: President Lee Jae Myung Demands Speed in Honam Semiconductor Project

3¼h: SuperAlloy boosts profit and expands into semiconductor green supply chains

3½h: Why TSMC Remains Indomitable

3½h: CKD: Strong 1Q FY2027 growth led to raised forecasts and higher dividends, fueled by semiconductor demand

3½h: Can KLA's Advanced Packaging Strength Support $1B Revenue Target?

3½h: Brewer Science strengthens US semiconductor supply chain with Heraeus Epurio acquisition

3¾h: CKD: Profits and sales soared on semiconductor demand, prompting an upward revision of full-year guidance

3¾h: Lee orders relocation of Gwangju air base by mid-2028 for chip hub

3¾h: DNB Carnegie raises its price target for Nordic Semiconductor to 250 Norwegian kroner (235), reiterates buy

3¾h: Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM) Reports Strong July Revenue Growth Am

5h: Building a resilient semiconductor supply chain | Hindustan Times

5h: Semiconductor Stocks Are Down 22%. Here's the 1 Chip Stock I'd Buy Right Now.

5h: Why is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing stock gaining today? By Investing.com

5h: Why is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing stock gaining today?

5¼h: South Korea Balances US-China Tech Competition with AI, Semiconductors

5¼h: Pipe Joint Sealant Compound Market to Reach Index 160 by 2035 as Semiconductor Fab Investments Drive High-Purity Demand

6h: Citric Acid Antiscalant Market Growth to 2035 Driven by Semiconductor Ultrapure Water Needs - News and Statistics

6½h: Sodium Formate Brine Market Semiconductor Wet-Etch Demand Drives 4.8% CAGR Through 2035

7h: Sony and TSMC to invest ¥1 trillion in joint chip plant in Japan

7¾h: LX Semicon supplies automotive semiconductor to Hyundai, Kia

7¾h: Cambricon’s 1,764% Gain Shows What Musk Missed—and How AI Chip Competition Is Broadening

7¾h: Riken Keiki : Strong sales and profit growth driven by semiconductor demand; outlook remains stable

7¾h: Isinglass Powder Market to Reach 158 Index by 2035 as Semiconductor Node Miniaturization Drives Electronics-Grade Demand

8h: Optical Parallel Plates Market Sub-5nm Chip Demand Drives Premium Flatness Specifications Through 2035

8¼h: Sony, TSMC to invest $6.3bn in advanced image sensor plant in Kumamoto

8¼h: AP Memory Strengthens Global Leadership Team with Appointment of Former Qualcomm Vice President Jian Zhang

8½h: Cleanroom Sliding Doors Market 2035: Semiconductor Fab Expansion Drives 8.5% CAGR - News and Statistics

8½h: Gyeonggi Governor Pressures Samsung, SK Hynix to Reduce Semiconductor Wastewater Discharge

 Component and layout rules for USB-C, PD, and CMTI  - Here are the essential design clues regarding USB component choices, layout constraints, and rule-of-thumb design practices. The post Component and layout rules for USB-C, PD, and CMTI appeared first on EDN .

 SK hynix workers move to merge three unions into one over bonus fight  - SK hynix workers move to merge three unions into one over bonus fight More than 4,000 SK hynix employees are organizing a single independent union after management reopened a profit-sharing deal that had united office and production workers in protest. 8/10/2026 - 02:34 AM News Team

 EU scales up IRIS² satellite constellation  - The European Commission and SpaceRISE consortium have signed an implementation agreement moving the EU’s IRIS² secure satellite…

 Beyond Chips: Washington Expands Semiconductor Security to Polysilicon  - Original Article By SemiVision Research [Reading time: 10 mins]

 EP 187: Inside the Future of Memory Summit & AMD’s "Boring" Bullishness  - n this episode of The Circuit, Ben and Jay unpack a busy week of tech earnings and the buzzing Future of Memory Summit. The hosts kick things off by analyzing AMD’s latest earnings, discussing why the street had a mixed reaction to a quarter that demonstrated solid, reliable execution and surprisingly...

 ChipAgent Raises $130 Million and Why it Matters  - In my 45 years experience in the semiconductor industry, 43 of that in EDA and IP, I have never seen such a meteoric rise of an EDA company. I do remember money being raised for EDA in the early days but never have I seen such a customer success in such a short amount of time.

 Mind-bending self-replicating GIF code prints an exact copy of itself, is both a program and its own visual output — champion coder shows off 'Piet Quine' technique  - A champion coder's latest confection is a Piet Quine – a GIF image that prints itself byte-for-byte.

 Wolfbox MF60 Compressed Air Duster is nearly 40% off in a limited-time deal — powerful rechargeable device's propulsion fan runs at up to 110,000 RPM

 Modder pumps liquid directly over bare GPU silicon via 3D-printed block — drops RTX 2060 Super load temps to 28°C despite initial leaks

 Musk’s Terafab projected to be larger than the Pentagon, Apple Park, Mall of America, and Giga Texas, combined — all-in-one chip manufacturing facility visualized to show the project’s massive footprint

 Noctua finds more than half of tested PC cases misstate CPU cooler clearances — hands-on checks reveal errors ranging from -3.5mm to +10mm, internal compatibility team conducted measurements of more than a hundred cases

 Micron reportedly offers pennies on the dollar for Crucial RAM return, only offers to reimburse original MSRP despite it being only 37% of market value — chipmaker later reverses course with a better solution

 Owner of original Intel 8080 pre-production layout seeks restorer — handcrafted Rubylith mask shows 5,000 transistors and interconnect patterns of the fabled 2 MHz CPU

 Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive — 'Phantom Drive' appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data

 Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D faceoff — battle of the upper mid-range CPUs

 Two variants of Nvidia's RTX Spark show up on Geekbench, revealing a cut-down 18-core model — Full 20-core beats most x86 mobile chips across multi-core and single-core tests

 FMS 2026 Signals the Next AI Memory War: Tiered Memory, zHBM, and Advanced Packaging  - Original Article By SemiVision Research [Reading time: 16 mins]

 Sequoia Capital's $10 Billion Plan for the AI Economy  - Sequoia Capital has backed many of the defining companies of the last half-century, from Apple and Google to Nvidia and SpaceX. Now, co-stewards Alfred Lin and Pat Grady join Bloomberg to discuss the firm's next chapter, why it made a franchise-defining investment in Anthropic, its renewed focus on semiconductors,...

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↺4½d Western Digital7.1% beat 🟢

↺4½d Everspin Techno…150% beat 🟢

↺86h Microchip Techn…3.4% beat 🟢

↺4¾d Globalfoundries3.1% beat 🟢

↺6½d ON Semiconducto…2.8% beat 🟢

 London still dominates Britain's datacenter map, but the regions are powering up  - The capital holds two-thirds of capacity, while multimegawatt projects gather beyond the M25

 半導體事業躍進!崇越7 營收首破80億元大關 連二 衝歷史新高  - 半導體關鍵材料整合服務領導廠商─崇越科技(5434)今 公布7 營收,受惠半導體廠產能滿載及強勁拉貨需求,今 7 合併營收首度衝破80億元大關,以81.7億元刷新單 歷史新高,較上 增加6.7億元, 增8.9%,與去 同期相比 增率高達42.6%;累計今...

 Research Bits: Aug. 10  - Thin chip stacking; analog CAM with MoS2; sensor-level processing and memory. The post Research Bits: Aug. 10 appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering .

 President Lee Jae Myung Orders 2028 Military Airport Relocation for Semiconductor Cluster  - To support the three mega projects, including the Honam Semiconductor Cluster, a legal basis is needed.

 台積電把廠搬去海外也沒差?外媒揭露台灣矽盾真相 點名「這關鍵」最難偷  - 【中時新聞網 賴宇萍】當全球各國政府投入鉅資,希望把台灣半導體產業的成功經驗複製到海外時,能不能蓋出先進晶圓廠,或許並不是唯一關鍵。從新竹的發展來看,台灣半導體產業背後還存在一套長期累積的人才、教育、產業關係與地方文化,而這些無形資產,可能才是其他國家最難複製的部分。...

 SOITEC - Should you buy?  - A global investor aspiring to declutter the investments and stock markets like a local

 Korea urged to tighten risky ETF rules  - Korea urged to tighten risky ETF rules After a sharp Kospi sell-off tied to single-stock leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETF), Korea needs stronger disclosures, tougher safeguards and faster regulatory action. 8/9/2026 - 11:01 AM Opinion Desk

 SK hynix weighs stake sale in China packaging plant: report  - SK hynix weighs stake sale in China packaging plant: report The chipmaker is reviewing options including a partial sale of its Chongqing packaging plant, though it says no decision has been made. 8/8/2026 - 11:54 PM News Team

 South Korea, Taiwan top Japan in exports for first time on AI boom  - Both economies benefit more from surging demand for semiconductors in 2026 first half

 South Korea to reconsider plan for ammonia use in coal plants: energy minister  - Policy shift could hinder global production and supply chains of new energy source

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↺4½d Foxconn Technol…-33% miss 🔴

 Multiplexed OCT Captures Corneal Biomechanical Events as They Unfold  - In a step toward more accurate assessment of corneal biomechanics, an international research team developed an OCT system that measures dynamic corneal deformation at one central and eight peripheral points in the cornea simultaneously, following a multi-spot air-puff stimulus. The new system could allow...

 South Korea Growth Seen Accelerating to 3.3% on Chip Boom  - South Korea’s economic growth for this year is expected to accelerate further on strong global appetite for semiconductors, according to a Bloomberg survey of analysts, ahead of a Bank of Korea interest rate decision later this month.

 Can AI Command Earth-to-Orbit Operations?  - The aerospace and defense sector is facing a confluence of geopolitical instability, rapid technological advances, evolving security requirements, and complex global supply chains. The post Can AI Command Earth-to-Orbit Operations? appeared first on EE Times .

 High current and sense SPST switching family  - Pickering Interfaces of Clacton-on-Sea, the supplier of modular signal switching and simulation solutions for electronic test and verification, has introduced the 60-191 LXI high current & sense SPST switching family. […] The post High current and sense SPST switching family appeared first on Electronics...

 King Slide confident in next 3 years, aiming for US production in September  - Taiwanese server rail manufacturer King Slide expressed strong confidence in its operations for the second half of the year and the next three years, following the release of its second-quarter 2026 financial results on August 6 and an earnings call on August 7. The company expects second-half operations...

 Sony, TSMC to invest $6.3bn in advanced image sensor plant in Kumamoto  - Japanese and Taiwanese duo targets 2029 production with new joint venture

 Korea urged to tighten risky ETF rules (KOR)  - Korea urged to tighten risky ETF rules (KOR) After a sharp Kospi sell-off tied to single-stock leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETF), Korea needs stronger disclosures, tougher safeguards and faster regulatory action. 8/9/2026 - 08:28 PM Opinion Desk

 Scientists Catch a Hidden Electronic State Forming Almost Instantly  - Researchers observed a hidden state triggered by light forming within 30 femtoseconds. A pulse of light sent a metal-organic framework into a hidden electronic state in just 30 femtoseconds. By watching the transformation almost as it happened, researchers uncovered a fleeting intermediate stage that...

 Moore Threads plans Hong Kong listing after posting 147% jump in first-half revenue  - The Chinese AI chip developer plans a listing in Hong Kong to deepen its ‘international strategic footprint’

 Jung Chung-rae Confuses Lee Myung-bak, Lee Jae Myung in Semiconductor Remarks  - On that day, Jung said, “The Honam Semiconductor Cluster can be done best,” and added, “I will push for a speedy licensing system and prepare living conditions to ensure the Gwangju Semiconductor Cluster