China-based automakers are striving for government subsidies for new energy vehicles (NEVs) as the subsidy program is drawing to an end this year, according to industry sources.
Intel has announced the availability of the Intel Arc A380 graphics processing unit (GPU), the first of its Arc A-series 3 graphics desktop products, providing mainstream gamers and content creators with a new option.
After more than a year when Tesla could not find common ground with the Indian government on import duty issues, it is reported that Tesla's top executives in India have resigned.
Entropica Labs, a Singapore quantum computing startup, attended Computex 2022 in late May. It is one of the portfolio startups of SGInnovate, the deep tech investor of the Singapore government.
Android phone vendors are gearing up promotional efforts to boost shipments during the upcoming 618 shopping festival in China, where smartphone sales have been sluggish since the beginning of this year, according to industry sources.
China-based BOE Technology is in preparation to produce OLED TV panels of five size segments from 55 inches to 95 inches, according to South Korea-based Chosun Biz.
Foxconn founder Terry Kuo has said that in the future, there will be only G2 (the US and China), not G20 in the world. The ideological battle will probably force all manufacturers to take sides or lay out more diversified production ecosystems, and the labor force and potential markets in ASEAN and South Asia will become the best choice for industry players. To avoid becoming casualties in the conflict between the two superpowers, the best strategy is to create a third battlefield that the G2 needs. The current industry structure does have the opportunity to allow Japanese, South Korean and Taiwanese manufacturers to find more space in emerging markets.
Weakening demand in the global smartphone market has reportedly prompted Samsung Electronics to slash its handset production output, dealing a further blow to its semiconductor business and related component suppliers, according to media reports.
Chinese carmakers are seeing sales rebound since May. BYD and Li Auto, to name a few, have reported strong growth in sales. However, shortage of semiconductor might not get resolved anytime soon, according to carmakers.
South Korea's global market shares in electric vehicles (EVs) and lithium-ion batteries in 2021 slid by 0.8pp and 2pp year-on-year, while China's shares in the two sectors moved up, according to media reports.
Bharat FIH, a subsidiary of Foxconn and the largest EMS provider in India, has got IPO approval and plans to use the funds to expand its factories and invest in new fields, including EVs.
The Indian carmaker Tata Motors is actively considering entry into foreign markets with a portfolio of EVs. Speaking to DIGITIMES Asia recently, Vivek Srivatsa, head of Marketing, Sales, and Service Strategy at Tata Passenger Electric Mobility, a subsidiary of Tata Motors, also revealed that the company has already identified a few regions.
NAND flash chipmaker Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) plans to skip the 192-layer generation and move directly to 232 layers, according to industry sources in China.
While Korean media reported that Samsung is cutting smartphone production in Vietnam, Indonesia sees its smartphone market grow 11.5% in first-quarter 2022 with Oppo dominating the market.
