While the recent announcement that the US will lower tariffs on Taiwanese exports from 20% to 15% was welcomed by officials in Taipei as a diplomatic milestone, the reaction within the semiconductor supply chain has been more measured

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is driving a fundamental reordering of the global semiconductor supply chain. According to exclusive analysis from DIGITIMES analyst Luke Lin, the administration has shifted its pressure campaign away from advanced logic chips and toward memory, delivering a blunt ultimatum to South Korea's two dominant producers: build wafer fabs in the US or face tariffs of up to 100%

High-Bandwidth Flash (HBF) is likely to reach commercialization sooner than previously expected and could become a key technology supporting large-scale data training and real-time inference, said Joungho Kim, professor of electrical engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Sony's decision to form a TV joint venture with TCL is being read in South Korea less as a routine corporate reshuffle than as a structural challenge to the country's long-held dominance in premium TVs and OLED panels. The deal has triggered unease not only about Sony's future role in TVs, but about whether Samsung Electronics can continue to dictate the industry's technological and competitive agenda

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC), a major Japanese commercial vehicle maker, has announced to establish a joint venture with Taiwan-based Foxconn

Kioxia, the world's third-largest manufacturer of NAND flash memory, has largely exhausted its production capacity for the current year and expects tight supply conditions to persist through 2027, according to comments from a senior executive cited by South Korean media.

China-based electronics manufacturing giant Luxshare Precision has been hit by a major cybersecurity incident, with a ransomware group claiming it breached the company's internal systems and stole large volumes of sensitive engineering and operational data tied to products for leading technology clients, including Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, Meta Platforms, Qualcomm, and LG Electronics. If confirmed, the incident could pose risks to the global consumer electronics supply chain