Following the widely reported departure of Lin Jing-cheng "Vic" (J. C. Lin) from Samsung Electronics in December 2024, industry analysts are now assessing the impact of his brief tenure. The former TSMC R&D Vice President's move to Samsung as VP for Advanced Packaging in January 2023 had initially sparked intense speculation about a potential shift in the industry's competitive landscape

Honor, the Chinese smartphone manufacturer, announced on its official website that it has transitioned into a joint-stock company as of December 28, 2024, with its official name now Honor Terminal Company, Ltd. According to reports from ICSmart and HKET, the restructuring, launched in the fourth quarter of 2024, has been carried out seamlessly

DeepSeek, an emerging AI company, has launched DeepSeek-V3, the first version of its new open-source model series. According to official data, this model outperforms other leading open-source models such as Alibaba's Qwen2.5-72B and Meta's Llama-3.1-405B across multiple evaluations, approaching the capabilities of prominent closed-source models like GPT-4 and Claude-3.5-Sonnet in several domains

As the new year unfolds, the global economy and trade dynamics remain highly complex and unpredictable. Among these developments, significant policy changes in both China and the US are heavily impacting the television market

Taiwan has implemented comprehensive regulations to prevent the transfer of sensitive technologies, including advanced chips, to mainland China, reinforcing national security and economic interests

Horizon Robotics, a Chinese manufacturer of intelligent driving chips, has announced its goal of shipping over 10 million chips in 2025, positioning itself to become the first Chinese company to achieve this level of mass production

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group Holding, has recently slashed prices on its visual language model Qwen-VL by more than 80%, as price wars continue to rage in China's large language models (LLMs)

Chinese chip vendors' efforts to achieve self-sufficiency in automotive ICs have shown progress, but their advancement is hindered by a high barrier formed by European IDMs, according to industry sources

According to Bloomberg, Beijing is set to impose new restrictions on exports of technologies related to battery component production and the processing of key metals, as global trade frictions continue to intensify

The Indian competition regulator is reportedly poised to charge Apple with engaging in anti-competitive practices related to its App Store operations. This impending case draws parallels to a similar situation faced by Apple in the European Union

Three prominent Chinese tech companies -- semiconductor firm Eswin Technology Group, battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), and smartphone manufacturer Honor -- are preparing for public listing in 2025

The US Department of Commerce has launched a Section 301 investigation into China's semiconductors, particularly Silicon Carbide (SiC), highlighting growing concerns over technological competition and national security

Due to the downturn in the NAND flash industry, South Korean memory manufacturers Samsung Electronics (Samsung) and SK Hynix are implementing an investment strategy focused on cost reduction. Both companies are reportedly transforming older equipment with low utilization rates into the latest models

South Korea's memory sector faces a slump in the generic memory market due to weakening demand in smartphones and PCs, contrasting with the strong growth of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and AI-driven semiconductor technologies

TSMC has confirmed mass production at its Japanese wafer fab, marking a significant milestone in its overseas expansion strategy amid geopolitical uncertainties. While its Japan project advances smoothly, the company faces varying degrees of success and challenges across its global operations