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Total DRAM industry revenue rose 59.5% QoQ in Q2 2026, reaching nearly USD 154.73 billion, driven by sharp increases in contract prices and sustained AI server demand. Supply expansion continues to lag demand growth, with supplier inventories at historic lows, according to TrendForce.

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DRAM and NAND Flash combined will account for 47% of major cloud service providers' total capital expenditure in 2026, rising to 68% in 2027, according to TrendForce. The shift reflects both soaring memory contract prices and surging procurement demand for AI infrastructure.

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Combined revenue for the top five publicly listed NAND Flash brands rose 77% QoQ in Q2 2026 to USD 68.87 billion, driven by sustained AI server demand for enterprise SSDs and significant contract price increases. Micron posted the strongest growth of the group and moved up to third place, according to TrendForce.

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Earlier this year, several discussions at Evertiq Expo pointed to the same conclusion: while the semiconductor industry continues to grow, that growth is far from evenly distributed. AI, memory and data centres have driven record revenues, while other parts of the electronics industry continue to face a very different reality.

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Koh Young, the industry leader in True 3D measurement-based inspection solutions, will serve as the Premier Sponsor of IPC APEX EXPO 2026, March 16 to 19 at the Anaheim Convention Center. At Booth 1824, Koh Young will demonstrate how AI-powered inspection and software solutions help electronics manufacturers improve stability and productivity amid tighter tolerances, higher mix production, and rising quality expectations.

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The latest edition of the TOP500 ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers has brought a change at the top. China's LineShine has overtaken the United States' El Capitan, while the number of exascale systems has increased to five. Europe has maintained its position among the world's leading high-performance computing regions.

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The unprecedented wave of investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure is transforming the global electronics supply chain, with growing consequences for PCB manufacturers, material suppliers and OEMs worldwide. According to new research from in4ma and EMSNOW, demand generated by hyperscale data centre operators is driving up PCB prices, stretching lead times and redirecting manufacturing capacity towards AI applications.

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In late June I spent a full day in Brussels, moderating a room full of speakers, panelists, policymakers and manufacturers, all there to talk about the future of European electronics. By the end of it, one thing was obvious. Everyone in that room agreed the industry matters. Almost nobody disagreed about the stakes. And yet agreement is not the same as alignment, and the gap between "we support you" and "here is what we will actually do" is exactly where good intentions tend to disappear.

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A decade after the UK voted to leave the European Union, the EMS and CEM sector is still adapting to the consequences. Brexit realised many fears around supply-chain disruption, labour shortages and regulation, but it also accelerated structural change and pushed companies to modernise operations.

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Two months ago, at Evertiq Expo Zürich, Nikolaos Florous left little room for optimism. Tight memory market conditions would persist, he said — and things would likely get worse before they got better.

Europe has long been regarded as a manufacturing powerhouse. Yet in electronics manufacturing services (EMS), the continent faces an increasingly difficult challenge: keeping pace with competitors in Asia.

Semiconductor revenue grew 27% QoQ in Q1 2026 to reach USD 319 billion – the highest quarterly growth Omdia has recorded since it began tracking the market in 2002. It marks the third consecutive quarter of double-digit growth, putting the market on track to surpass USD 700 billion in the first half of 2026.

At Evertiq Expo Zürich, Claus Aasholm of Semiconductor Business Intelligence delivered a data-driven examination of a semiconductor industry in structural transition – and the picture looked considerably different from what most quarterly reports suggest.

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The DRAM industry posted revenue of USD 97 billion in the first quarter of 2026, up 81% quarter-on-quarter, driven by a rapid surge in contract prices for conventional DRAM. Contract prices rose approximately 93 to 98 percent compared to the previous quarter, according to TrendForce.

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EMS companies have been recently publishing mainly positive headlines related to growth and improving profitability. Even the most struggling companies, Lacroix and TT Electronics, are indicating a comeback after serious restructuring in the Americas region. This is very welcome news for the industry after all the recent crises impacting demand and supply chain.

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The combined revenue of the world's five largest NAND Flash suppliers jumped 83.7% quarter-on-quarter in the first quarter of 2026, surpassing USD 38.9 billion. Surging demand for enterprise SSDs from AI infrastructure buildout, combined with constrained supply, pushed prices well above expectations, according to TrendForce.

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57.5%. That is the share of the entire Swedish EMS market held by just ten individual production sites. Not ten companies – ten factories.

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Global semiconductor materials market revenue increased 6.8% year-over-year to USD 73.2 billion in 2025, SEMI reports

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Nikolaos Florous of Memphis Electronic delivered a data-heavy, at times bluntly honest overview of the global memory market at Evertiq Expo Zürich – and his central message was uncomfortable: the rules have changed, and most of the industry is still playing by the old ones.

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A structural shift in the global mature-node foundry market is underway, according to research from TrendForce. Capacity cuts, surging demand for AI power components, and TSMC's planned reallocation are combining to push utilisation rates toward 90% — and set the stage for price increases.

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Rising demand for AI infrastructure is driving a sharp increase in capital expenditure among the world’s largest cloud service providers (CSPs), according to new data from TrendForce.

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Global semiconductor sales reached USD 298.5 billion during the first quarter of 2026, an increase of 25% compared to Q4 of 2025, reports SIA.

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Worldwide silicon wafer shipments increased 13.1% year-on-year to 3,275 million square inches (MSI) from the 2,896 MSI recorded during the same quarter of 2025, reports SEMI.

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During Evertiq Expo Zurich on April 23, 2026, Claus Aasholm, founder of Semiconductor Business Intelligence, offered a pointed assessment of a semiconductor industry growing rapidly — but not evenly. In his keynote and a follow-up conversation, Aasholm argued that while headline figures suggest unprecedented expansion, underlying dynamics point to structural imbalances across the supply chain.

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Omdia has significantly raised its 2026 semiconductor revenue forecast, now projecting growth of 62.7%, citing sustained AI-driven demand and tightening supply conditions in memory markets.

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The global EMS/ODM industry continues to expand, but scale and growth remain unevenly distributed, with Asian players flexing their dominance while Europe lags behind, according to new research from in4ma and EMSNOW.

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In many projects, electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) is still treated as a final-stage verification step. In practice, this approach increasingly leads to delays, costly redesigns and errors that are difficult to eliminate — particularly in complex defence systems. As Dominik Kowalczyk, an explosion protection specialist at Dacpol, told Evertiq, EMC analysis should cover the entire lifecycle of a project — from concept to deployment. He also pointed out where signal integrity is most often lost and why the traditional approach to EMC is no longer keeping pace with growing system complexity.

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We often speak about the performance of modern GPUs in abstract terms — trillions of operations, ever-increasing compute power. What remains less visible is the structure that makes it possible.

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Extended lead times for key semiconductor and hardware components are increasingly shaping supply conditions in the server market, according to TrendForce.

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On April 23, Zurich will host the inaugural edition of Evertiq Expo Zurich, bringing together industry professionals for a day that moves between technology, manufacturing and market realities — often without clear boundaries between them.

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Europe is investing heavily in semiconductors. New fabs are being planned, public funding is flowing, Chips Act 2.0 is on its way and long-term initiatives are taking shape. But there’s a more basic question that doesn’t seem to get asked enough: Even if all of this gets built, who is going to run it?

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Market research firm Gartner forecasts that global semiconductor revenue will exceed USD 1.3 trillion in 2026, representing 64% growth – the strongest growth in more than two decades – driven by continued strong demand related to AI, data centers and rising memory prices.

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How often do we really think about the scale of the technologies we use? How small are the elements that make up a single device — and how far does that scale extend beyond what we can see?

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