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Friday 15 May 2026
Broadcom loses South Korea appeal over fine for alleged coercive Samsung supply deal
Broadcom lost its appeal in South Korea on May 13, 2026, when the Seoul High Court upheld a KRW191 billion (approx. US$130 million) fine for allegedly coercing Samsung Electronics...
Friday 15 May 2026
OpenAI and Apple partnership frays as legal threat looms

Tensions are escalating between OpenAI and Apple, threatening what was once seen as one of the most important alliances in the generative...

Thursday 14 May 2026
US court cleared Apple to seek documents from Samsung's Korea HQ in DOJ antitrust case
A US federal court in New Jersey granted Apple the right to pursue internal records from Samsung Electronics' South Korea headquarters as part of Apple's response to the Department...
Tuesday 12 May 2026
GaN patent fight between China and Europe extends beyond courtroom

As the global patent battle over gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductors intensifies, a recent ruling by the US International Trade Commission...

Wednesday 6 May 2026
Analysis: The US$2.5 billion smuggling case hanging over Supermicro's US$40 billion year
Supermicro CEO Charles Liang used the opening of his fiscal third quarter of 2026 earnings call to address a topic unrelated to revenue or margins: the DOJ indictment of former employees...
Thursday 30 April 2026
SpaceX's IPO gives Musk unchecked control via 'Texas fortress' strategy
As SpaceX prepares for a public debut at a valuation targeting US$1.75 trillion, new regulatory filings have revealed a corporate governance structure that positions Elon Musk as an...
Monday 27 April 2026
TSMC trade secret theft ends in 10-year sentence, $4.6M fine against Tokyo Electron
A Taiwanese court handed down its harshest ruling yet in a semiconductor trade secret case on Monday, sentencing a former TSMC engineer to 10 years in prison and fining Japanese equipment...
Monday 27 April 2026
Singapore-washing is dead: China cuts off US tech investment
"Singapore-washing" — the tactic of Chinese technology firms re-domiciling in the city-state to bypass geopolitical scrutiny — is facing an existential threat. China has...
Friday 24 April 2026
Apple faces US$38B antitrust fine in India, eyes Trump card for relief
Apple faces a potential US$38 billion antitrust fine in India as Tim Cook prepares to hand leadership to John Ternus, raising both legal and business implications for the company and...
Thursday 23 April 2026
Former Samsung Electronics researcher sentenced to 7-year prison term for leaking DRAM trade secrets
A former researcher at Samsung Electronics was sentenced to seven years in prison on April 22 by a South Korean court for leaking core semiconductor trade secrets to a Chinese competitor...
Thursday 23 April 2026
Supermicro GPU smuggling prompts Nvidia to intensify supply chain audit
Following the recent smuggling indictment involving Supermicro co-founder Wally Liaw and others, Nvidia has significantly upgraded its global supply chain monitoring practices in recent...
Monday 20 April 2026
Samsung files injunction to prevent union from occupying chip facilities
Samsung Electronics has taken legal action amid escalating labor disputes with its union, filing for an injunction at a South Korean court on April 16, 2026, to prevent the union from...
Wednesday 8 April 2026
Claude Code leak rattles industry, legal risks mount
A major internal code leak has recently struck Anthropic, with approximately 510,000 lines of core source code from its AI coding tool, Claude Code, being unintentionally exposed and...
Thursday 2 April 2026
TSMC plans 12 fabs in Arizona as supply chain shifts from passive to active
TSMC's expansion scale in the US has exceeded expectations, prompting Taiwanese suppliers with existing or planned local operations to take a more proactive approach. Reportedly, companies...
Saturday 28 March 2026
Samsung labor talks resume as new law boosts union leverage
Samsung Electronics has decided to restart negotiations on wages and collective agreements, temporarily halting a planned large-scale strike scheduled for late May. The risk of strike...