South Korea's DB HiTek is gaining pricing power as tightening 8-inch foundry supply, high utilization, and stronger demand for power-management chips improve conditions across mature-node manufacturing.
China's PC monitor market is entering a period of sharper structural divergence, with commercial demand offsetting part of a weakening consumer segment while rising component costs push manufacturers toward higher-value products.
China's CXMT has begun mass production of its fifth-generation DRAM platform, or G5, claiming process capabilities comparable with the industry's most advanced mass-production nodes and bringing higher-density LPDDR5X into volume production.
Samsung Electronics will reportedly slash quantum-dot (QD) LCD TV production in 2026 to 2 million to 3 million units, down as much as 80% year-over-year, while it also plans to gradually scale back Neo QLED output and potentially stop production as early as 2028. The move shifts the company's LCD TV focus toward Mini LED models without QD.
ACM Research Shanghai is staking its growth case on two developments: planned tool installations at customers outside mainland China and orders for panel-level advanced packaging equipment, according to Star Market Daily, Securities Times, and East Money.
German commercial vehicle company Quantron and China's Hongjing Drive have formally agreed to establish a joint venture, Quantron China, to develop a China-Europe technology and industrial platform for next-generation zero-emission commercial vehicles. Foxconn will serve as the industrial manufacturing partner for truck and bus platforms, supporting their international deployment.
MediaTek's new Dimensity 9600 Pro puts agentic AI at the center of its flagship smartphone strategy, supporting on-device mixture-of-experts (MoE) models with up to 30 billion parameters. Vivo, among the first Chinese handset makers to adopt the platform, has followed with an expanded AI software stack spanning BlueLM, BlueLM Copilot, and a system-level BlueLM Harness.
Copper-clad laminate (CCL) manufacturer Ventec International Group has approved an expansion budget of NT$1.5 billion (approx. US$47.11 million) to lease and convert an idle factory in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, China, as it moves to capture spillover demand for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-density interconnect (HDI) materials. The expansion budget is to be invested in three phases. Depending on future growth demand, the company will proceed with further capacity expansion investments in the second and third phases.
Solidigm, the US NAND flash subsidiary of SK Hynix, is considering building its first NAND manufacturing plant in the US, with upstate New York emerging as a leading candidate.
