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Daily Semiconductor News & Research • August 13, 2026 • 04:56 AM CST

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News items: 69 articles gathered
Company papers: 8 papers from major players
Technology papers: 15 research papers
Total sources: 19 feeds processed

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🔥 TOP NEWS

Samsung delays High-NA EUV adoption until 1nm production in 2030

DigiTimes (EN)Aug 13, 2026 Score: 0.70
Samsung Electronics plans to introduce high-numerical-aperture extreme ultraviolet (High-NA EUV) lithography into mass production at its 1nm node around 2030, according to South Korean media reports. ...
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SK Hynix expands EUV roadmap with High-NA tools and PSM adoption

DigiTimes (EN)Aug 13, 2026 Score: 0.58
SK hynix said it is advancing its use of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography for the mass production of next-generation DRAM, with high-numerical-aperture (High-NA) EUV equipment introduced in the s...

📰 News Items

Quanta raises 2026 capex to NT$40B as AI visibility runs to 2028

DigiTimes (EN)Aug 13, 2026
Quanta Computer told investors at its August 13 earnings call that customer AI product roadmaps and order visibility now extend into 2028, prompting the company to accelerate capacity expansion and raise its full-year 2026 capital expenditu...

Oracle's transformation from enterprise software to AI powerhouse

DigiTimes (EN)Aug 13, 2026
Oracle and quantum computing leader Quantinuum have entered a multi-year strategic partnership to bring Quantinuum's next-generation quantum computer, Helios, directly into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The collaboration aims to create...

Comparing Intel EMIB and Intel Foveros

SemiWikiAug 12, 2026
Intel EMIB and Intel Foveros are advanced semiconductor-packaging technologies designed to combine multiple silicon dies, or chiplets, within one processor package. Both support heterogeneous integration: manufacturers can build different f...

Boost Front-End SoC Design With Defacto’s AI-Powered Tool

SemiWikiAug 12, 2026
Front-end SoC design has always been a balancing act between speed, accuracy, and the large amount of manual work required to get RTL, IPs, and collaterals to be aligned. In a recent webinar, Defacto CEO and founder Chouki Aktouf joined by ...

Taiwan's carbon fee era begins, science parks roll out measures

DigiTimes (EN)Aug 13, 2026
Taiwan began charging companies for carbon emissions in 2026 as part of its push toward net-zero by 2050, with the initial filing deadline closing June 1. A total of 461 regulated factories and 240 companies have paid in full, generating NT...

Temperature Does Not Only Age Hardware — It Moves the System

SemiWikiAug 11, 2026
Temperature is often treated as a reliability clock. Increase the temperature, accelerate the failure mechanism, and estimate the equivalent field life. That approach can be useful—but only when the dominant failure mechanism is known, its ...

Siemens and NVIDIA tout Agentic AI

SemiWikiAug 11, 2026
Siemens has EDA tools and flows, NVIDIA has AI infrastructure, so what happens when these two companies collaborate? I’m at DAC 2026 and all the buzz this year is Agentic AI, so an came out on Sunday evening about how semiconductor and PCB ...

Roger Grace MEMS report validates the rising role of AI

FierceElectronics (All news)Aug 06, 2026
Dozens of thought leaders in the 2025 Roger Grace MEMS Commercialization Report Card described the dramatically increasing role of AI as MEMS technology has reached mature status after years of growth. The experts' aggregate grade was B-min...

Compal Opens Daxi AI Server Manufacturing Center

Semiconductor Digest (General)Aug 11, 2026
Compal Electronics today held the opening ceremony for its Daxi AI Server Manufacturing Center, officially launching next-generation AI server manufacturing capacity. The post Compal Opens Daxi AI Server Manufacturing Center appeared first ...

Qisda eyes AI infrastructure as fastest-growing business opportunity

DigiTimes (EN)Aug 13, 2026
Qisda Chairman Peter Chen said infrastructure is the foundation that must first be built as AI compute demand surges. He said Qisda will not be absent from the fast-growing race, as the company steps up work on AI servers, data centers, 1.6...

Why Edge AI Demands Companion Silicon

Semiconductor Digest (General)Aug 11, 2026
Lattice's Hussein Osman frames the next phase of edge AI as a reliability-at-scale problem rather than a raw-performance one. The post Why Edge AI Demands Companion Silicon appeared first on Semiconductor Digest.

Samsung delays High-NA EUV adoption until 1nm production in 2030

DigiTimes (EN)Aug 13, 2026
Samsung Electronics plans to introduce high-numerical-aperture extreme ultraviolet (High-NA EUV) lithography into mass production at its 1nm node around 2030, according to South Korean media reports. The move signals that the foundry giant ...

ACM Research Expands Ultra C Tahoe into a Wet Processing Platform

Semiconductor Digest (General)Aug 10, 2026
Adds advanced wet etch and monitor wafer reclaim applications for logic and memory manufacturing. The post ACM Research Expands Ultra C Tahoe into a Wet Processing Platform appeared first on Semiconductor Digest.

Asus projects up to 150% server growth as AI demand lifts results

DigiTimes (EN)Aug 13, 2026
Asustek Computer said growth in its AI server and PC businesses pushed revenue, operating profit, and net profit to record highs in the second quarter of 2026. The Taiwan-based hardware maker also projected continued third-quarter growth ac...

Conference Report: System Level Thinking Needed in AI Era

Semiconductor Digest (General)Aug 10, 2026
Progress on Perf/Watt and Perf/TCO now depends on co-optimizing compute, memory, and interconnect as a system, not as separate scaling problems The post Conference Report: System Level Thinking Needed in AI Era appeared first on Semiconduct...

SK Hynix expands EUV roadmap with High-NA tools and PSM adoption

DigiTimes (EN)Aug 13, 2026
SK hynix said it is advancing its use of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography for the mass production of next-generation DRAM, with high-numerical-aperture (High-NA) EUV equipment introduced in the second half of 2025 and related research ...

Emergence Appoints Ian Eslick as Chief Executive Officer

Semiconductor Digest (General)Aug 07, 2026
Ian Eslick will lead Emergence's commercial growth, while Co-Founder Dr. Satya Nitta assumes the role of Executive Chairman to advance the company's long-term research vision and next-generation safe autonomous AI strategy. The post Emergen...

Intel Announces Leadership Appointment

Semiconductor Digest (General)Aug 07, 2026
Intel Corporation today announced the appointment of Dean Jarnac as executive vice president and chief sales officer. The post Intel Announces Leadership Appointment appeared first on Semiconductor Digest.

ChipMOS lifts capex for 2026-2027 on memory and AI ASIC growth

DigiTimes (EN)Aug 13, 2026
ChipMOS said strong demand for automotive panels and memory products drove revenue and profit to record highs in the second quarter of 2026. Chairman Shih-Jye Cheng said the company will raise capital expenditure (capex) for two consecutive...

TFLN: A Material Platform Reaches an Inflection Point

Semiconductor Digest (General)Aug 07, 2026
Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) has spent years confined to defense applications and lab demonstrations; G&H's Stratos Kehayas argues it's now graduating into mainstream commercial photonics, driven by a straightforward electrical advantag...

AlixLabs Expands Footprint at RISE ProNano in Lund by 400 Square Meters

Semiconductor Digest (General)Aug 06, 2026
AlixLabs AB, a Swedish semiconductor technology company pioneering Atomic Pitch Splitting, APS, today announced that it is expanding its cleanroom space at the Lund-based RISE ProNano lab by 400 square meters. The post AlixLabs Expands Foot...

Pegatron sees 2026 server growth beat expectations

DigiTimes (EN)Aug 13, 2026
Pegatron said its server business had posted significant growth in shipments and revenue so far this year, giving it strong confidence that it will meet—and likely exceed—its original goal of raising 2026 server revenue to ten times its 202...

🏢 Company Papers

Eigenstate Preparation Through Near-Optimal Eigenprobability Filtering

Company Research Papers (SMH)Published: 2026-08-12
Quantum simulation is expected to be a main application of quantum computers with realistic utility in quantum chemistry, materials science and beyond. However, preparing excited or general eigenstates is a central challenge, particularly w...

Explicit Bicanonical Models of Eight Fake Quadrics

Company Research Papers (SMH)Published: 2026-08-12
We compute explicit defining equations for eight fake quadrics arising as $\mathbb Z/2\times\mathbb Z/4$-covers of two singular $\mathbb Z/2$-Godeaux surfaces obtained in earlier work of the second author. Starting from explicit equations f...

Beyond Trial-and-Error: Agentic Optimization for Image-to-Video Adherence

Company Research Papers (SMH)Published: 2026-08-12
Modern black-box Image-to-Video (I2V) models offer powerful capabilities in automated content creation, yet their lack of fine-grained control and reliability presents significant challenges in professional workflows. Their inherent stochas...

📄 Technology Papers

Probing Impurity Quantum Criticality with Entanglement Witnesses

6. Memory & StoragePublished: 2026-08-12
Entanglement is a defining feature of quantum mechanics, and its relation to quantum criticality is of considerable current interest. Here we show that measurable spin and charge fluctuations provide an entanglement witness of quantum criti...

AVA-Encoder: Towards Agent-Native Video Representation Learning

10. Data Center Architectures & InterconnectsPublished: 2026-08-12
Creative agents still lack an effective way to learn from high-quality human films, limiting their ability to produce cinematic-grade videos. A key challenge is the absence of a structured video representation that is both faithful to film ...