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Foundry & Fabrication

Reporting on wafer fabs, foundry capacity, process nodes, yield progress, equipment adoption, fab construction and manufacturing partnerships.

FocusCapacity, nodes and yield
Foundry & Fabrication
Watch pointRamp timing and utilization
Foundry & Fabrication

Can Intel 18A truly shake TSMC's foundry dominance?

In-depth analysis of Intel's 18A process technology advantages, capacity bottlenecks, and its potential impact on TSMC's global foundry landscape.

David Sterling5 min read
Foundry & Fabrication

SK Hynix surpasses Samsung: AI memory era reshapes Korea's semiconductor landscape

SK Hynix, leveraging the success of its HBM chips in the AI field, has surpassed Samsung Electronics in market capitalization for the first time, becoming the most valuable listed company in South Korea. This article provides an in-depth analysis of the industrial significance of this milestone from the perspectives of the supply chain, technology roadmap, market competition, and supply chain.

Hiroshi Chen7 min read
Foundry & Fabrication

Google May Join Hands with Samsung: Supply Chain Differentiation Signal for Next-Generation TPU "Icefish"

Google is discussing with Samsung to produce the I/O Die for its tenth-generation AI chip "Icefish," using Samsung's 2nm process, while the main compute chip will still be manufactured by TSMC's 1.4nm process. This move marks a shift in the AI chip supply chain from sole reliance on TSMC to diversification, having a profound impact on the wafer foundry landscape, advanced packaging technology, and global semiconductor industry competition.

Sofia Al-Said7 min read
Foundry & Fabrication

Taiwan's green energy industry shifts from manufacturing competition to resilience strategy: implications for the semiconductor supply chain

Taiwan's green energy industry has undergone more than two decades of development, with its strategic focus shifting from hardware manufacturing to industrial resilience and financial discipline. This transformation has a profound impact on the semiconductor wafer foundry and advanced packaging supply chains that are highly dependent on green electricity. Companies such as TSMC and UMC face new challenges in the stability and cost of energy supply.

Hiroshi Chen6 min read
Foundry & Fabrication

NVIDIA brings AI into the wafer fab, signaling that advanced process competition is shifting toward "computing power-driven manufacturing"

NVIDIA and TSMC announced that they will apply NVIDIA’s accelerated computing, CUDA-X, cuLitho, cuEST, cuML, Metropolis, TAO, and Omniverse to wafer fabrication and yield optimization. This is not only a corporate partnership, but also reflects how advanced process nodes, advanced packaging, and fab operations are entering the “AI-native manufacturing” stage, and will reshape semiconductor equipment, software, yield management, and the way the industry supply chain competes.

Sofia Al-Said10 min read