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Friday 8 March 2024
Taiwan-India 2025-2027 research collaboration will span 7 sectors, including AI and semiconductors
Tata Electronics Private Limited (TEPL), a subsidiary of India's Tata Group, is planning to invest US$11 billion to establish India's first 12-inch semiconductor fabrication plant...
Friday 8 March 2024
Taiwan exports to China see record drop in 2023
Taiwan's exports to China (including Hong Kong) decreased by 18.1% in 2023 compared with 2022, the largest decline in history, according to Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council.
Friday 8 March 2024
Taiwanese IC design firms accelerate exit from red ocean markets
Chinese IC design companies have initiated price wars in saturated and highly competitive market categories, leading Taiwanese IC design houses to expedite their withdrawal from these...
Thursday 7 March 2024
Taiwan's CCL trio soars with AI servers in 2023, eyes bright 2024
The advancement of AI application is driving significant developments in the essential materials for PCB and HDI, with Taiwan's leading trio in Copper Clad Laminate (CCL) —...
Thursday 7 March 2024
Taiwan's Phison lends memory expertise to slingshot DeepMentor's LLM training
Taiwan's AI startup DeepMentor has teamed up with memory giant Phison Electronics to edge training servers for training large-scale language models (LLM).
Thursday 7 March 2024
Samsung accelerating its global TV expansion; LG takes dual-track approach to high-end market
Samsung Electronics is set to launch 83-inch OLED and 98-inch LCD TVs in the South Korean domestic market, and its highest-end Micro LED TV will also expand to emerging markets like...
Thursday 7 March 2024
Electrifying Brazil: BYD begins plant construction as Stellantis, Toyota increase investments
South America's largest economy sees growing automotive investment. China-based BYD recently started building an industrial complex for EVs in Brazil, aiming to produce 15,000 vehicles...
Thursday 7 March 2024
Germany in semiconductor spotlight with Taiwan in TSMC JV
Following the recent grand opening of Kumamoto Wafer Fab 1 by Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (JASM), a joint venture between TSMC and Japan's Sony, Denso, and Toyota,...
Thursday 7 March 2024
Is Taiwan's defense industry up for asymmetric warfare?
As China's National People's Congress holds its annual Two Sessions meeting, the defense budget for 2024 submitted by China's Ministry of Finance has revealed a 7.2% growth to reach...
Thursday 7 March 2024
2024 Industry Outlook (6): Learning from past economic nodes of paradigm shift
Using the IMF's statistics on global GDP, I will explore the keys to the post-1950 rise of the four Asian Tigers. I have chosen 1950, 1980, 2009, 2019, and 2023 as nodes to explore...
Thursday 7 March 2024
US chip kingpin Texas Instruments tells reporters about GaN automotive opportunities
The US semiconductor kingpin Texas Instruments (TI) held a media briefing to discuss the latest power density solutions, the potential expansion of Gallium Nitride (GaN) usage in...
Wednesday 6 March 2024
TSMC supplier Topco sees market momentum in used semiconductor equipment
Topco Scientific Co., the leading provider of integrated services for semiconductor and optoelectronic key materials, stated that as semiconductor demand gradually recovers, the industry...
Wednesday 6 March 2024
Interview with UBI Research founder Yi Choong-Hoon: breaking down the competition in the panel sector
Founded in 2007, UBI Research has become South Korea's most renowned research institution regarding the panel industry by establishing a diverse OLED database through its extensive...
Wednesday 6 March 2024
Japanese startups on track to make low-cost SiC power semiconductors
Semiconductor companies in Japan have been trying to reduce the costs of silicon carbide (SiC) and other power semiconductors. Startups Gaianixx and UJ-Crystal are part of the effo...
Wednesday 6 March 2024
XR market becomes growth focus for South Korean manufacturers as ABF substrate business struggles
Although the semiconductor industry has experienced rapid growth in certain sectors such as high-bandwidth memory (HBM), the recovery remains slow. Particularly, companies that viewed...