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Samsung Kicks Off Early Prep For Second Taylor Foundry Fab In Texas — Aug 27, 2026 — Samsung Electronics has asked equipment suppliers to complete SEMI safety certification for a second foundry fab in Taylor, Texas months before ground...Samsung And Broadcom Ink $200B MOU To Power AI Silicon Through 2030 — Aug 25, 2026 — Samsung Electronics and Broadcom expanded their multi-year collaboration to more than $200B across memory, 2nm foundry and advanced packaging, positio...TSMC's 1.6nm A16 Node Slated For Q4 2026 Mass Production, Roadmap Holds — Aug 24, 2026 — TSMC confirmed its 1.6nm-class A16 process is on track for high-volume manufacturing in the fourth quarter of 2026, targeting datacenter AI accelerato...Nvidia In Early Talks With South Korea's Rebellions For Deal Or Buyout — Aug 22, 2026 — Jensen Huang met Rebellions CEO Sunghyun Park at Nvidia HQ to discuss investment, partnership or acquisition of the $2.3B Korean AI inference chip sta...Samsung Foundry Hikes 4nm and 5nm Prices Up To 15% As AI Demand Fills Its Lines — Aug 19, 2026 — Samsung is raising prices on advanced chipmaking by up to 15% as customers cut off from TSMC's booked-out AI capacity turn to Pyeongtaek's SF4 line.SK Hynix Approves $38B Fab Push For Yongin Y2 And Cheongju M17 — Aug 17, 2026 — The Korean memory giant commits 54.3 trillion won through 2031 to build a next-gen DRAM/HBM fab at Yongin and a NAND flash plant at Cheongju.Sony And TSMC Ink $6.4B Image Sensor JV In Kumamoto — Aug 16, 2026 — Sony Semiconductor Solutions and TSMC signed a definitive agreement to form Advanced Vision Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, a ~1 trillion yen...SMIC Lifts Chip Prices As AI Demand Pushes Fabs To 93.7% Utilization — Aug 14, 2026 — China's SMIC posts first-ever $3B quarter, triples profit to $479M, and raises Q3 wafer prices as AI-fuelled demand keeps its factories running near c...South Korea Rolls Out $3.5B Chip Fund To Back Materials, Fabless Firms — Aug 11, 2026 — Seoul will launch a 5 trillion won ($3.52B) fund targeting chip materials, parts, equipment and fabless companies, plus 5 trillion won in trade financ...TSMC July Revenue Jumps 44.7% To $14.5B As AI Chip Demand Roars — Aug 11, 2026 — Taiwan Semiconductor disclosed July 2026 revenue of NT$467.58 billion ($14.5B), up 44.7% year-on-year, sending TSMC ahead of its own 40% full-year gro...Stanford-Spun Source Foundry Bags $400M From Situational Awareness At $5B Valuation — Aug 10, 2026 — Bloodied but not broken, Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness hedge fund poured $400M into stealth chip-lithography startup Source Foundry, t...Tesla And SpaceX Break Ground On $16.8B Terafab Chip Complex In Grimes County, Texas — Aug 10, 2026 — Elon Musk's two flagship companies formally committed $16.8B to Terafab, a vertically integrated 100M-sq-ft semiconductor complex north of Houston tha...Samsung And Broadcom Sign $200B Chip Pact For AI Memory And 2nm Foundry Through 2030 — Jul 30, 2026 — Samsung Electronics and Broadcom signed an MOU at San Francisco's AI Summit to jointly deliver HBM memory and 2nm foundry capacity for AI infrastructu...IonQ Closes $1.8B SkyWater Acquisition To Own U.S. Quantum Chip Fab — Jul 30, 2026 — IonQ received final FTC clearance and will complete its $1.8 billion acquisition of SkyWater Technology on July 31, 2026, becoming the only quantum ha...TSMC To Lift Chip Prices Up To 10% From 2027, HPC Orders Face Extra 10-15% Surcharge — Jul 26, 2026 — TSMC has told Nvidia, Apple, AMD, Qualcomm and other lead customers it will raise wafer prices by 5-10% across advanced and mature nodes starting Janu...Intel Explores Ohio Fab Operating Partner, SK Hynix Named Among Candidates — Jul 25, 2026 — Intel is seeking outside operating partners for its delayed Ohio semiconductor project, with reports naming SK Hynix among the candidates being consid...IBM to Acquire HRL Laboratories to Add Silicon-Spin Qubits to Anderon Foundry — Jul 24, 2026 — IBM has signed a definitive agreement to acquire HRL Laboratories from Boeing and General Motors, bringing silicon-spin qubit engineering and quantum...AMD Opens Advancing AI 2026 With EPYC Venice, MI455X And Helios Rack — Jul 23, 2026 — AMD kicked off Advancing AI 2026 in San Francisco with EPYC Venice — the first x86 server CPU on TSMC's 2nm N2 process — plus the Instinct MI455X GPU...Intel Ships First High-NA EUV Logic Chips With ASML On Panther Lake — Jul 18, 2026 — Intel became the first foundry to mass-produce logic chips built on ASML's 0.55 NA High-NA EUV scanners, with Panther Lake layers on 18A now dual-qual...TSMC Adds $100B To Arizona Bet, Pushing US Investment To $265B For 10 Fabs — Jul 18, 2026 — TSMC announced on July 16 an additional $100 billion investment to build four more 2-nanometer or more advanced fabs in Arizona, lifting its total US...