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Friday 28 March 2025
Japan allocates US$665.8M budget for drones, Taiwan-Japan alliance targets disaster relief missions
The collaboration between Taiwan and Japan in the drone sector is taking shape. The Taiwanese Excellence Drone Alliance (TEDIBOA) has recently formed a new partnership with the Japan...
Friday 28 March 2025
Semiconductor business like DeepSeek may emerge in China, says former TSMC R&D VP
Chinese semiconductors may avoid engagement in traditional advanced process competition, potentially fostering a domestic chip manufacturer similar to "DeepSeek," according to Burn-Jeng...
Friday 28 March 2025
South Korean firms overtake Japanese rivals in high-end auto display market for the first time
South Korean display makers have surpassed Japanese manufacturers in the global high-end automotive display market for the first time. In the future, LG Display (LGD) and Samsung...
Friday 28 March 2025
Mundus Smart Energy enters Japan with 2MW grid-scale storage coming online by year-end
Mundus Smart Energy, a subsidiary of Taiwan's Lealea Group, is expanding into Japan's high-voltage battery storage market with seven approved projects totaling 14MW. The installations...
Friday 28 March 2025
Samsung and SK Hynix profits set to soar with memory chip market recovery
As the memory chip market re-enters a favorable cycle, industry forecasts predict that Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix's operating profits in 2025 could surge by 40% compared to...
Friday 28 March 2025
AI bubble brewing? Alibaba chair warns of data center frenzy
Alibaba Group Chairman Joe Tsai warned that the ongoing AI data center boom risks creating a market bubble. Speaking at the HSBC Global Investment Summit, he said construction is...
Friday 28 March 2025
DeepSeek sparks AI appliance gold rush in China—with commitment still elusive
Since January 2025, the open-source large language model (LLM) DeepSeek has sparked a surge of product launches across China's enterprise AI sector. Nearly 100 vendors—including...
Thursday 27 March 2025
China's self-driving car push spurs safety concerns as BYD leads market
Chinese automaker BYD plans to dominate the world's largest car market in 2025 by making smart driving technology accessible in vehicles below CNY100,000 (approx. US$13,780), triggering...
Thursday 27 March 2025
Humanoid robot race between US and China heats up
A series of major advancements in humanoid robot technology in China and the US has reignited talk of imminent mass production.
Thursday 27 March 2025
China's DeepSeek V3 ups stakes in AI arms race—on Apple's Mac Studio
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has quietly launched its latest large language model, V3, with no big announcement or white paper—just a simple upload to Hugging Face. The low-key...
Thursday 27 March 2025
Rapidus partners with Quest Global to advance 2nm chip development
Japanese semiconductor foundry Rapidus has signed an MoU with Singapore-based IC design contractor Quest Global to collaborate on the design and production of its upcoming 2nm chips...
Thursday 27 March 2025
TCL CSOT's Guangzhou plant acquisition threatens Korean DDI suppliers
TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology (TCL CSOT) is taking over LG Display's (LGD) LCD factory in Guangzhou, China, which may affect the LCD display driver IC (DDI) orders of...
Thursday 27 March 2025
AI, smart devices lift Goertek to CNY100B revenue milestone in 2024
Goertek, a leading Chinese supplier of precision components and smart hardware, bucked the downturn in the global consumer electronics market with a strong 2024 earnings report. Annual...
Thursday 27 March 2025
Chinese TV exports defy US tariffs with growth from emerging markets and supply chain shifts
Since returning to the White House, US President Trump has imposed a cumulative 20% tariff on imports from China. However, looking at the export volume of Chinese TV for January and...
Thursday 27 March 2025
Alibaba debuts AI model that can process video, audio on phones
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has released a new artificial intelligence model in its Qwen series that the company says can process text, pictures, audio and video, and is efficient...