IEKView : As AI Fuels Semiconductor Industry Expansion, Experts Call for a Dual-Track Approach to Process Innovation and Green Transformation
2026/03/31
From smartphones and electric vehicles to cloud computing and smart home devices, it is integrated circuits that keep everything in day-to-day life moving. Semiconductors have effectively become a core infrastructure of modern life – not only supporting technological advancement, but also reshaping the global economy and industrial structure. As the computing performance, energy efficiency, and system integration capabilities of chips directly influence the speed and breadth of technological innovation, the development of semiconductor technology has become a strategic priority on the national agendas of many countries.
With the rapid rise of emerging applications such as artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), autonomous vehicles, and advanced wearable devices, the requirements for chip performance and manufacturing precision have increased substantially. This wave of demand is accelerating the evolution of advanced process technologies, including sub-2-nanometer process nodes, chip stacking (3D IC), and heterogeneous integration. These innovations have taken center stage in the competition among semiconductor foundries, advanced packaging providers, and IC design companies. In the future, companies that possess advanced manufacturing capabilities and stable mass-production capacity are set to dominate global semiconductor competition.