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Tuesday 18 November 2025
Samsung's glass substrate samples fall short of requirements
Samsung Electronics has been in active discussions with Samsung Electro-Mechanics (Semco), Japan's Ibiden, and Shinko Electric Industries regarding collaboration on semiconductor...
Tuesday 18 November 2025
PDG announces US$700 million data-center investment in South Korea

Princeton Digital Group (PDG) has announced plans to enter the South Korean market with a US$700 million data-center investment, marking...

Tuesday 18 November 2025
China-US trade tensions highlight Taiwan's push to secure rare earth and neon supplies
Amid escalating China-US trade frictions and disrupted global supply chains, Taiwan is advancing efforts to strengthen its domestic production of critical materials like rare earth...
Tuesday 18 November 2025
Eric Schmidt warns global rise of Chinese AI models poses geopolitical risks
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has raised concerns about developing countries adopting Chinese AI models, mostly because of cost. According to Business Insider, Schmidt stated...
Tuesday 18 November 2025
OSE plans price hikes and capacity expansion as memory market tightens
Orient Semiconductor Electronics (OSE) said the global memory industry has shifted decisively into a "seller's market," prompting the company to pass higher costs to customers and...
Tuesday 18 November 2025
China's legacy chip dominance poses 'severe' threat, warns author of 'Chip War'
Chris Miller, the influential author of Chip War, is warning that while the West is focused on advanced AI, China is quietly weaponizing the market for older legacy semiconductors.
Monday 17 November 2025
Ceva's chief strategy officer says edge AI trend is set; physical AI to reshape chip industry
IP provider Ceva held its Technology Symposium this week in Hsinchu, showcasing multiple edge AI technology solutions co-developed with partner IC design houses. Ceva chief strategy...
Monday 17 November 2025
Samsung reportedly secures 2nm chip orders from crypto miners MicroBT and Canaan
Samsung Electronics has reportedly secured 2nm chip orders from two major Chinese cryptocurrency mining firms, MicroBT and Canaan. This marks a notable, though unconfirmed, client...
Monday 17 November 2025
Taiwan labels DeepSeek, four Chinese AI models security threats
Taiwan's National Security Bureau (NSB) has issued an urgent warning about several China-developed generative AI language models, saying they contain severe security vulnerabilities...
Monday 17 November 2025
From oil to chip: China's Heshun Petro makes an unexpected US$220M leap into semiconductor IP
Hunan Heshun Petroleum Co. announced a controlling acquisition of MSquare Technology, a Shanghai-based semiconductor IP and chiplet-interconnect developer. The November 16, 2025,...
Monday 17 November 2025
South Korea's solar exports collapse as China deepens global supply chain control
Despite surging global demand for solar energy, South Korean manufacturers are seeing export volumes contract as China deepens its dominance over upstream silicon wafer and module...
Monday 17 November 2025
Oppo boosts smartphone lifecycle and user experience with Apex Guard
To carve out new growth in the highly mature smartphone industry, Oppo, on November 14, launched its Apex Guard technology suite designed to safeguard user experience with quality...
Monday 17 November 2025
Hiwin Mikrosystem secures strong semiconductor advanced packaging orders
Hiwin Mikrosystem, leveraging years of expertise in nanometer-level high-precision positioning platforms and direct-drive motors, has successfully penetrated the semiconductor and...
Monday 17 November 2025
TSMC accelerates CoPoS mass production to 2029, Taiwan suppliers win first orders
The market is focusing on rising demand for Nvidia AI GPUs and various ASICs, with optimism growing as TSMC plans to expand its CoWoS capacity and sees OSAT partners joining the race...
Monday 17 November 2025
Alibaba denies US national security claims; China embassy calls allegations baseless
Alibaba has been accused by the US government of providing data and technical support to China's military, posing a threat to American national security. Both Alibaba and the Chinese...
Wednesday 23 December 2015
Samsung PRO Plus 128GB microSD cards
Samsung Electronics has unveiled its PRO Plus 128GB microSD card series, which is built with company's MLC NAND flash solution. With the introduction of its new 128GB microSD card, Samsung provides consumers with a memory card solution for capturing heavy-loaded, high-resolution video, photography and multimedia contents for use in today's mobile devices. The PRO Plus 128GB microSD is the newest addition to Samsung's PRO Plus lineup, which was first introduced in 32GB and 64GB versions in May 2015. The 128GB microSD features the highest-quality MLC NAND flash memory and UHS-I Speed Class 3 (U3) and Speed Class 10 support, offering the industry's fastest speeds of up to 95MB/s and 90MB/s for read and write respectively, Samsung said. The new PRO Plus 128GB microSD is meant for use in high-end smartphones and tablets, as well as fulfilling the security, capacity, performance and environment requirements inherent in newly emerging audio and video consumer electronics, specifically action cameras and drones. The new memory card is equipped to handle storing and transferring professional-grade photos and 4K UHD video recording and playback. It can record up to three hours and 50 minutes of 4K UHD video or 16 hours and 20 minutes of Full HD video in action cameras without the need to change or replace the memory card. In addition, the PRO Plus 128GB microSD can store a maximum of 10,940 photos or 30,670 MP3 songs based on Samsung's estimated user settings and configurations. Samsung will now offer the new PRO Plus 128GB microSD memory card in more than 50 countries including China, Europe, Korea, the US and other regions.