Victory Giant Technology, a China-based PCB maker and Nvidia supply chain partner, debuted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on April 21, with its shares rising as much as 60% on the first day of trading. Founder and chairman Chen Tao said order momentum remains strong, with proceeds from the listing primarily earmarked for capacity expansion in China.

South Korea's long-running experiment with job-guaranteed semiconductor education is entering a more consequential phase, with the first large wave of students from expanded industry-linked programmes set to enter the workforce from 2027. The shift is drawing fresh scrutiny over whether a model built around direct hiring pipelines, practical training, and university-industry coordination can do more than produce graduates at scale and whether it can ease the country's persistent shortage of semiconductor design talent.

China's dominant battery manufacturer, CATL, is accelerating its push to reshape the global electric vehicle (EV) landscape with a sweeping technology rollout that spans ultra-fast charging, high-energy-density systems, sodium-ion chemistry, and a unified charging-and-swapping infrastructure.

As advances in artificial intelligence (AI) accelerate, the global auto industry is transforming any in its history. Jheng-Jian Wang, chairman of Taiwan's Automotive Research & Testing Center (ARTC), said the car of the future will no longer be merely a means of transportation, but a "mobile living space" capable of reasoning and decision-making. At the center of this shift, he said, are two technologies: the smart cockpit and end-to-end AI driving systems.