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Tuesday 18 November 2025
Vingroup founder sets sights on the skies with aerospace startup VinSpace

Vietnam's richest man and founder of Vingroup, Pham Nhat Vuong, is pushing his business empire into its most ambitious frontier yet: aerospace. The billionaire founder has established a new company, VinSpace, marking the conglomerate's formal entry into aviation and space technology, an expansion that underscores how Vingroup is steadily evolving beyond its roots in real estate and EV

Tuesday 18 November 2025
Samsung, SK Hynix inventory drop signals AI memory supercycle
South Korea's top memory chip makers are entering what industry executives call a full-scale "supercycle," as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix report steep inventory reductions through the third quarter of 2025
Tuesday 18 November 2025
Huawei pitches a new vision for AI compute: one cluster, one software brain
Huawei will unveil a new unified AI compute-management technology on November 21 at the "2025 AI Container Application Implementation and Development Forum," a move widely viewed as an effort to speed up its software-layer catch-up with Nvidia in the global compute race
Tuesday 18 November 2025
Samsung reportedly achieves 60% yield rate for Exynos 2600 chip, plans competitive pricing
Samsung Electronics Co. has reportedly reached a 60% yield rate in producing its next-generation mobile application processor (AP), the Exynos 2600, using its 2nm GAA process technology. The company aims to price the chip US$20 to US$30 lower than Qualcomm's Snapdragon equivalent
Tuesday 18 November 2025
South Korean President and SoftBank's Son to discuss AI investment and Stargate
South Korean President Jae-Myung Lee is coordinating a meeting with SoftBank chairman Masayoshi Son, expected to take place in 2025. The discussion is speculated to focus on AI investments and collaboration on the Stargate Project
Tuesday 18 November 2025
Samsung revives P5 fab construction for memory supercycle
Samsung's P5 plant at the second campus in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, will begin construction, with operations expected to start in 2028. Due to the weak memory market, P5 was previously put on hold. With the memory supercycle emerging, analysts state that the start of P5 construction means subsequent investment plans have also begun to take shape
Tuesday 18 November 2025
Samsung's glass substrate samples fall short of requirements
Samsung Electronics has been in active discussions with Samsung Electro-Mechanics (Semco), Japan's Ibiden, and Shinko Electric Industries regarding collaboration on semiconductor glass substrates. However, reports indicate that they have not yet advanced to formal sample evaluation because of Samsung's assessment of the technology and market potential of glass substrates
Tuesday 18 November 2025
South Korean AI-powered memorial videos go global
South Korea-based JL Standard showcased its AI-driven video services for memorials, events, and digital content at the 2025 Pangyo Global Media Meet-Up. The presentation at Pangyo Techno Valley's startup campus highlighted the district's growing role as a launchpad for AI applications targeting niche markets across Asia
Tuesday 18 November 2025
India approves 17 ECMS projects worth US$810 million to boost component manufacturing
India has approved a second tranche of 17 projects under the Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme (ECMS), authorizing investments worth INR71.72 billion (US$810 million) and projected production of INR651.11 billion. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said the new approvals are expected to create 11,808 direct jobs and further expand domestic component manufacturing capacity. This follows an earlier set of seven applications worth INR55.32 billion cleared in the previous phase
Tuesday 18 November 2025
Samsung's customer list reshuffles as Alphabet returns and Tesla's $16.5bn chip deal goes on the books

Samsung Electronics has released its regulatory filing for the third quarter of 2025, revealing that Google—whose parent company is Alphabet—has once again reappeared on Samsung's list of top five customers. The company's report also formally incorporates the $16.5 billion chipmaking contract that Samsung was reported to have secured with Tesla in July

Tuesday 18 November 2025
Dynamic Holding plans major expansion to tap AI demand in networking and server markets
Dynamic Holding, a leading producer of automotive printed circuit boards (PCBs), is gearing up for a surge in artificial intelligence (AI) computing demand from application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) customers anticipated in the second half of 2026. The company projects that AI-related revenues will exceed 20% of total sales for the first time, with contributions from both GPU and ASIC sectors balancing equally
Tuesday 18 November 2025
Eric Schmidt warns global rise of Chinese AI models poses geopolitical risks
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has raised concerns about developing countries adopting Chinese AI models, mostly because of cost. According to Business Insider, Schmidt stated on a podcast that many US AI models are closed-source and expensive, pushing budget-conscious nations toward Chinese AI, which is often free and risks becoming the global standard
Tuesday 18 November 2025
South Korea's OLED giants forecast a strong 2025 on rising TV and monitor demand

The outlook for South Korea's two major display makers—LG Display (LGD) and Samsung Display (SDC)—is strengthening as both companies move toward improved performance in the large-size OLED market. LG Display's white-OLED (WOLED) business is expected to turn an annual profit for the first time, while SDC is narrowing losses in its QD-OLED operations by focusing on the high-margin monitor segment

Tuesday 18 November 2025
China's legacy chip dominance poses 'severe' threat, warns author of 'Chip War'
Chris Miller, the influential author of Chip War, is warning that while the West is focused on advanced AI, China is quietly weaponizing the market for older legacy semiconductors
Monday 17 November 2025
Taiwan labels DeepSeek, four Chinese AI models security threats
Taiwan's National Security Bureau (NSB) has issued an urgent warning about several China-developed generative AI language models, saying they contain severe security vulnerabilities and politically steered outputs that could compromise users and distort information across global technology ecosystems