#Semiconductors – The Milli Chronicle https://millichronicle.com Factual Version of a Story Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:08:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://media.millichronicle.com/2018/11/12122950/logo-m-01-150x150.png #Semiconductors – The Milli Chronicle https://millichronicle.com 32 32 Micron plans second Taiwan chip plant to expand AI memory supply https://millichronicle.com/2026/03/63551.html Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:08:18 +0000 https://millichronicle.com/?p=63551 Taipei_ Micron Technology said on Monday it plans to build a second semiconductor manufacturing facility in Taiwan at a site in Tongluo recently acquired from Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp.

The U.S. memory chipmaker said the new plant would expand production of advanced DRAM chips, including high-bandwidth memory (HBM), used in artificial intelligence systems and high-performance computing.

Micron also confirmed it had completed the acquisition of Powerchip’s Tongluo P5 facility, located in Miaoli County, where the new fabrication plant will be developed.

The company said the additional facility would be similar in scale to its existing fabrication plant at the Tongluo site and would strengthen supply of leading-edge DRAM products.

Demand for high-bandwidth memory has surged globally as technology companies invest heavily in infrastructure for artificial intelligence applications.

Micron said construction of the second facility is expected to begin by the end of its fiscal year 2026.

]]> ByteDance taps Nvidia’s top AI chips in $2.5 bln overseas compute push https://millichronicle.com/2026/03/63424.html Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:15:30 +0000 https://millichronicle.com/?p=63424 Beijing — ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, is building large-scale computing capacity using advanced chips from Nvidia outside China to support its global artificial intelligence development, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

According to the report, ByteDance is collaborating with Southeast Asian cloud provider Aolani Cloud to deploy around 500 Nvidia Blackwell computing systems in Malaysia, incorporating roughly 36,000 B200 chips.

The computing infrastructure project could cost more than $2.5 billion, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.

Aolani Cloud currently operates hardware worth about $100 million, according to the report, meaning the proposed deployment would represent a major expansion of its existing capacity.

ByteDance plans to use the new computing resources to advance AI research and development outside China and to meet rising demand from international customers for artificial intelligence services.

The arrangement reflects how global technology companies are structuring data infrastructure to comply with export controls governing the sale of advanced semiconductors.

An Nvidia spokesperson said current export regulations allow cloud infrastructure to be built and operated outside countries subject to restrictions.

“By design, the export rules allow clouds to be built and operated outside controlled countries. Winning the business of those clouds will bring tens of billions of dollars and high paying jobs home,” the spokesperson said.

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