qwant news | TSMC's Japan fab signals a turning point for overseas manufacturing

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TSMC’s new semiconductor plant in Japan has posted its first quarterly profit since beginning mass production, marking a key milestone in the company’s overseas expansion strategy and signalling a turning point for its foreign‑manufacturing operations. This profitability underscores the success of TSMC’s Japan venture amid broader efforts to diversify production capacity outside Taiwan.

Read more: https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20260518PD230/tsmc-fab-jasm-profit.html

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https://winbuzzer.com/2026/05/18/tsmc-cowos-yields-top-98-as-capacity-expands-xcxwbn/

TSMC reports CoWoS yield above 98 percent with a larger advanced-packaging and 2-nanometer capacity expansion plan.

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TetraMem says analog memory computing could help solve AI’s growing power problem

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US Top News and Analysis | What you need to know about Nvidia competitor Cerebras after wild IPO

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Cerebras Systems’ blockbuster IPO, which closed with a market cap just under $100 billion, underscores the exploding demand for AI chips that can serve as alternatives to Nvidia’s GPUs. The Silicon Valley firm builds massive custom ASICs—its WSE‑3 chip is the size of a dinner plate, about 57 times larger than the biggest GPU and contains roughly 50 times more transistors—designed for faster inference rather than the training tasks that Nvidia’s general‑purpose GPUs excel at. After the IPO, Cerebras began operating its chips inside its own data‑center cloud, positioning itself against hyperscalers and other ASIC specialists such as Groq, SambaNova, D‑Matrix and Rebellions. The offering made two of its co‑founders billionaires and paves the way for further ASIC‑focused startups to go public as the AI hardware market rapidly expands.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/15/nvidia-cerebras-stock-price-ipo.html

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