Following participating in India's incentive scheme for telecom and networking gear, Samsung Electronics reportedly plans to invest in making 4G and 5G equipment in southern India.
Some industry sources believe that SMIC developed and produced 7nm chips using immersion DUV equipment. If confirmed, the foundry house faces a risk of raging the US government and placing it under closer scrutiny by the Biden administration.
China's three bellwether semiconductor firms, Yangtze Memory Technology (YMTC), Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), and ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), have begun grumbling over the fresh US semiconductor export controls imposed in October.
Gautam Adani, Asia's richest man, confirmed Adani Group will launch a super app. AWS is investing US$4.4 billion in India, eyeing the growing cloud market in the country.
The world's third larget semiconductor equipment manufacturer, Tokyo Electron (TEL), held a groundbreaking ceremony for its Tainan operations center on November 25 in Tainan. The Tainan operations center is expected to be completed in the second half of 2024, with an area of approximately 35,000 square meters, and is expected to accommodate nearly 1,000 employees and promote local employment opportunities.
China's purchases of machines to make computer chips fell 27% last month from a year earlier as the US imposed new, sweeping sanctions to try and derail the country's chip ambitions.
Lithium has run into a soft patch as its extraordinary two-year gain collides with signs of wariness over near-term demand from China's electric vehicles (EV).
Samsung Display (SDC) shipped 86.3 million OLED panels for smartphones and smart wearable devices globally in third-quarter 2022, taking a worldwide market share of 62.9%, down 5.9pp sequentially, iNews 24 cited Stone Partners statistics as indicating.
LED packaging service provider Para Light Electronics is setting up a Si-based IGBT (insulated gate bipolar transistor) power device packaging line at its factory in northern China with investment of CNY7.188 million (US$1.00 million), with initial monthly packaging capacity of 600,000 power devices to be completed at the end of 2022, according to the company.
Growing EV adoption has put cybersecurity at stake. Besides the vehicle, a charging station could also be the target of hackers. Israel-based C2A Security focuses on developing cybersecurity solutions to manage the whole EV ecosystem, making the process more cost-effective.
Taiwan-based silicon IP provider M31 Technology has benefited significantly from semiconductor self-supply campaign in China, with the ratio of revenues contributed by Chinese clients hitting a high of 62.3% in the third quarter of 2022 and shipments set to grow further in the fourth quarter and beyond.
As Foxconn's Zhengzhou facility, the largest iPhone production site for Apple, saw the second protest erupt in a month, India is again in the spotlight.
China-based pure-play foundry Hua Hong Semiconductor has reported revenue surged 39.5% on year to a record high of US$630 million in the third quarter of 2022, with gross margin climbing 10.1pp from a year earlier to 37.2%, buoyed by robust demand for automotive chips and power management ICs.
Hunan Sanan Semiconductor, a wholly owned subsidiary maker of the largest China-based LED chip maker Sanan Optoelectronics, has signed with a China-based new energy car vendor for supply of SiC chips during 2024-2027, with a total sales value estimated at CNY3.8 billion (US$532 million), according to industry sources.
With governments worldwide mandating low-emission vehicles and the fragmentation of global markets, Stellantis is optimistic about India with both the market and factory significance.
