China's domestic AI chipmakers are making fast progress in closing the gap on international leaders, according to SenseTime Group Inc. co-founder Xu Bing

Chinese CPU maker Loongson Technology Founder and Chairman Hu Weiwu, who is also a Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Computing Technology researcher, told Xinhua News Agency that Loonson's next-generation CPU will match the performance of Intel's 12th-generation Core i5

Samsung Electronics is keenly exploring "hafnia ferroelectrics" as a next-generation NAND flash material, with the hope that this new material will enable stacking over 1,000 layers of 3D NAND and achieving petabyte-level SSDs

Samsung Electronics has successfully stacked the next-gen 3D DRAM to 16 layers, twice as many as its competitor Micron

South Korean media outlets Money Today and Yonhap News reported that the Industrial Technology Security Investigation Team of the South Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency arrested a former SK Hynix employee in her 30s, a Chinese national, in April 2024 on suspicion of violating the Industrial Technology Leakage Prevention and Protection Act. The prosecution initiated the indictment process in early May

Recently, analysis within South Korea's securities industry suggests that Samsung Electronics may secure orders for 3nm chips from AMD. Apart from factoring in TSMC's production capacity, hints from AMD's presentation at the ITF World 2024 event also provide clues

As the spotlight on AI-powered PCs intensifies and market competition heats up, Lenovo Executive Vice President Luca Rossi reveals the company's strategic move to offer differentiated products tailored for both Chinese and international markets. Rossi claims this will secure Lenovo a "unique position" in the burgeoning global AI PC arena

Micron, which has a DRAM factory in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, is reportedly planning to construct a new plant adjacent to the existing Hiroshima factory as early as 2026

China's Huawei claims to have successfully achieved domestic substitution of using its self-developed 7nm and 5nm chips in its smartphones and has boosted market standings of HiSilicon and SMIC

Qualcomm is now sweeping the AI PC and smart cockpit chip markets

Foreign media reports indicate that China is considering imposing a 25% tariff on large-engine fuel vehicles imported from Europe, specifically targeting cars with engines larger than 2.5 liters

Chinese Premier Li Qiang, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida recently held a trilateral summit in South Korea to deepen economic, trade, and digital cooperation

Battery maker LG Energy Solution will enhance its plant in Michigan to strengthen the facility's role as the mother factory in North America. The South Korean company is building another plant with General Motors in the same US state. The industry has been paying attention to whether the project will delay volume production or have a different focus

Vasily Shpak, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, was quoted by Ijiwei, a Chinese media focusing on semiconductor news that Russia will soon produce chips with a 350nm process with its first domestic lithography machine

As Chinese display industries dominate the LCD industry, they are now capable of controlling not only the availability but also prices, meanwhile affecting the capabilities of supply to various brands, which highlights their significance