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Thursday 9 October 2025
GLT shutters China plant, eyes Vietnam trial and biomedical expansion
Global Lighting Technologies (GLT) has liquidated its Zhongshan factory in Guangdong, China and has plans to start trial production at its new facility in Vietnam facility in the...
Thursday 9 October 2025
China's humanoid robot industry grows, but core processors remain foreign-controlled
As the US-China tech rivalry intensifies, China has ramped up its robot+ strategy in recent years, targeting humanoid robots as a next-generation strategic technology. However, behind...
Wednesday 8 October 2025
China and Taiwan chart diverging paths in the 12-Inch SiC market
In the high-stakes arena of silicon carbide (SiC) innovation, a quiet transformation is underway. While much attention has focused on non-Chinese supply chains entering advanced packaging...
Wednesday 8 October 2025
Beijing's K-visa policy sparks domestic debate over job opportunities for youth
China's new K-visa program, designed to attract foreign STEM professionals, has triggered domestic backlash amid soaring youth unemployment. Critics argue the policy, which allows...
Wednesday 8 October 2025
Samsung China targets premium market with W26 high-end foldable smartphone
Samsung Electronics is set to release a new high-end foldable smartphone designed specifically for the Chinese market, aiming to break into China's price-competitive smartphone landscape...
Wednesday 8 October 2025
US rebuilds rare earth supply chain to cut China dependence
The global rare earth market has long been dominated by China, encompassing everything from ore extraction to separation and refining, and even magnet manufacturing. Although the...
Wednesday 8 October 2025
China accelerates DUV lithography breakthroughs with patents and testing
China is enhancing its DUV lithography technology amid US export restrictions. Yuliangsheng's 28nm immersion DUV machine is being tested at SMIC, while SMEE has patented a method...
Wednesday 8 October 2025
YMTC eyes HBM market entry to disrupt top three
Chinese NAND Flash giant Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp. (YMTC) is preparing to enter the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) market and is anticipating a technological breakthrough. As...
Tuesday 7 October 2025
CATL extends global lead as Korean battery utilization drops to 50%

South Korea's once-dominant battery manufacturers are losing their footing in the global electric vehicle (EV) supply chain, as Chinese...

Tuesday 7 October 2025
Malaysia denies talks with China on rare earth refinery but reaffirms long-term ambitions for sector
Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional has denied reports that it is in talks with a Chinese state-owned firm to build a rare earth processing plant, after Reuters cited...
Tuesday 7 October 2025
TSMC, Samsung components still found in Huawei's Ascend 910C
Semiconductor intelligence firm TechInsights has concluded, following a teardown of Huawei Technologies' Ascend 910C chip, that some of the components still come from Taiwan Semiconductor...
Tuesday 7 October 2025
China's SiC industry finds high-value exit in Meta's AR supply chain

As the global semiconductor industry eyes the rise of 12-inch silicon carbide (SiC) wafers as potential game-changers in advanced packaging,...

Tuesday 7 October 2025
Weekly news roundup: Intel and TSMC pour billions into Arizona; Memory chip prices soar, Hanmi expands to Singapore to support Micron
Below are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from the week of September 29–October 5.
Sunday 5 October 2025
Apple adds third supplier for folded zoom OIS actuators in iPhone
LG Innotek and Jahwa Electronics have been the sole two suppliers for folded zoom optical image stabilization (OIS) actuators in Apple's iPhone lineup in recent years. However, Luxshare...
Sunday 5 October 2025
PlayNitride bets on microLED tools to drive its next growth phase
PlayNitride is positioning its mass transfer process equipment as a key "microLED 3D printer" to accelerate mass production and expand applications beyond current panel customers...