Tomoyasu Masayuki– Author –

Main News Tokyo Electron Expects AI-Driven Sales to Reach 40% by FY2026 Tokyo Electron (TEL) has announced that it expects sales from AI-related technologies to reach 40% of its total sales by FY2026. This is expected to help offset a sl...

For manufacturing executives and DX promoters, the week of November 30-December 6, 2025 was a period during which they experienced a rapid shift in the technology paradigm. This sequence of developments is not just a technological advanc...

Main News Micron to phase out the Crucial brand and exit the consumer market Micron Technology plans to exit the consumer market through the phasing out of its consumer memory brand, Crucial. The move comes against the backdrop of surgin...

Main News Micron to Exit Consumer Memory Market, Focus on EnterpriseMicron Technology plans to exit the consumer memory market by ending its consumer memory brand Crucial by February 2026. This is a strategic shift to focus management re...

Main News Marvell Acquires Optical Interconnect Technology Company for $3.25 Billion for AI Data Centers Marvell Technology has announced plans to acquire Celestial AI to accelerate the transformation to optical interconnect in AI data c...

The tech industry is currently at a pivotal turning point, with a battle for supremacy over AI (Artificial Intelligence) chips, a surge in prices due to supply constraints, and increasingly complex geopolitical risks. The major news obse...

Main News NVIDIA Invests 310 Billion Yen in Synopsys to Strengthen CUDA Ec osystem NVIDIA has acquired a $2 billion (approx. 310 billion yen) stake in Synopsys, a leading semiconductor design automation (EDA) software company, and entere...

Main News Severely Surging Memory Prices and Changes in Contract Structure Prices for DRAM and NAND flash memory are surging on the back of tight wafer supplies, with NAND in particular expected to rise by up to 60% or more, and warnings...

Main News Samsung nears December decision on Nvidia's HBM4 testing Samsung is reportedly nearing a December decision on the results of Nvidia's testing of its high-performance AI memory, HBM4 (High Bandwidth Memory 4). This decision will...

Introduction. This week, the artificial intelligence (AI) industry announced a series of significant innovations and business developments that have the potential to bring unprecedented change to the manufacturing industry. Between Novem...