DuPont spin-off Qnity invests US$61.5M to expand advanced chip material production in Taiwan  - US semiconductor and electronic materials company Qnity Electronics announced a US$61.5 million investment in Taiwan by acquiring the N9 plant in Zhunan, Miaoli, from Ennostar, aiming to accelerate the expansion of advanced semiconductor material R&D and manufacturing capacity. The new facility is expected...

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 Realtek to Showcase Advanced Comprehensive Multimedia and Communication Network Solutions at Embedded World 2026

 [News] NAND Giant YMTC Reportedly Debuts First Commercial PCIe 5.0 SSD Using In-house Xtacking Flash  - Amid the ongoing global memory shortage, Chinese memory makers are pushing aggressively to capture a bigger slice of the market. According to Tom’s Hardware, YMTC, the nation’s NAND heavyweight, has officially entered the PCIe 5.0 SSD arena with its first commercial offering, the PC550. Accor...

+4 from  trendforce

 EV magnet market set to reach $9.5 billion by 2030  - The global electric-vehicle (EV) magnet market is on a strong growth trajectory as electrification accelerates across the…

 Lock in the RTX 5070 for $599 before prices skyrocket even further — custom overclocked model is only $50 above MSRP  - The RTX 5070 offers strong 1440p performance, 12GB of GDDR7 memory, and support for Nvidia’s latest features like DLSS 4 and Reflex 2.

+1 from  tomshardware

 Chinese SSD maker YMTC lists first commercial PCIe 5.0 SSD as worldwide shortage intensifies — Xtacking 4.0 NAND powers speeds of up to 10,500 MB/s  - The newly listed PC550 SSD targets AI PCs and commercial systems and features PCIe 5.0 x4 connectivity, NVMe 2.0 support, and a four-channel design.

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 半導體風雲／台積電帶動供應鏈赴美 投資上看1兆美元？  - 台灣跟美國在今 初兩個 內，簽署了兩份文件：分別是1 15 和美國商務部的《投資合作備忘錄（MOU）》、及2 12 跟美國貿易代表署的台美《對等貿易協定》（ART）。其中，前者「我方同意以兩類性質不同的資本承諾投資美國」，可以視為由台積電領銜帶領供應鏈赴美投資最終金額，究竟可能最多會是多少？...

 Elektor Releases March/April 2026 Issue Focused on Embedded Systems and AI  - The March/April 2026 edition of Elektor Magazine is now available, focusing on the latest developments in embedded systems…

 From Middle East War to Taiwan\u2019s Semiconductor Fabs: Why a Regional Conflict Could Shake the Entire World  - Original Article By SemiVision Research [Reading time: 15 mins]

 Fujitsu and DT-Axis collaborate to advance digital health

 Beijing warns of more chip supply worries after Nexperia China claims it was cut off from SAP  - PLUS: Indonesia joins kids social media ban; China frets about AI job impacts; India’s PC market fails to launch, again; And more

 Nvidia halts China-bound H200 production, shifts TSMC capacity to Vera Rubin  - Nvidia has halted production of artificial intelligence (AI) chips intended for the Chinese market and redirected manufacturing capacity at TSMC to its next-generation Vera Rubin platform, as regulatory barriers in both the US and China continue to cloud prospects for sales to Chinese customers, the Financial...

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 Memory bit flips cause up to 15% of Firefox crashes, asserts Mozilla engineer — figure inferred from 470,000 auto-submitted crash reports  - A Mozilla engineer has shared survey data and calculations suggesting that up to 15% of Firefox crashes are due to a bit flip.

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 Unpacking the deceptively simple science of tokenomics  - feature Inference at scale is much more complex than more GPUs, more tokens, more profits

 [Marvell 3/5/2026 Earnings] Hilarious Short Squeeze  - Matt Murphy Redemption Arc?

 Rapidus gets its first customer  - Rapidus, Japan’s government-backed leading-edge chip startup , has got its first customer – Canon. Canon is going to order 2nm test chips designed by Synopsys to be fabbed at Rapidus’ Chitose site. Last month the company announced that it had raised $1.7 billion from 32 private-sector companies...

+4 from  electronicsweekly

 Gartner Forecasts Information Security Spending in India to Total $3.4 Billion in 2026

 TR 44: Claude Code (Again), ASML (briefly), Qwen Crazyness  - TR 44: Claude Code (Again), ASML (briefly), Qwen Crazyness Today, the Slop Sons talk SemiAnalysis' obsession with Claude Code, ASML's 3 shot thing, and the Qwen turbulence.

 ​BluGlass enters A$1.25M development program with Tier 1 defence prime; receives first A$560k order  - Highlights Customer is a tier-1 defence prime supplying advanced systems and services across commercial, military and business aviation sectors Order…

 Broadcom CEO sees copper interconnects viable through 2028  - Broadcom reported strong results for the first quarter of fiscal 2026, driven by robust demand for cloud application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), and issued an upbeat outlook. During the earnings call, however, industry attention centered less on the company's financial performance and more on...

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 PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon — AMD hit marketing gold with its 1 GHz Athlon, beat Intel by a nose  - Today in the year 2000, AMD shipped an undisputable milestone processor, its 1 GHz Athlon CPU. Thus, the Gigahertz PC era was born on Monday, March 6, 2000.

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 ASE Drives AI and Green Transformation for a Sustainable Future in Kaohsiung