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Tuesday 2 December 2025
Intel CEO meets Malaysia PM as Intel puts in additional US$208M investment
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan met with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on December 1, 2025, where Anwar announced an additional investment of MYR860 million (approx. US$208 million)...
Tuesday 2 December 2025
US rallies allies to secure AI and mineral supply chains amid rare earth crunch
The US is moving to reinforce critical mineral and semiconductor supply chains with key allies as the West's push to expand rare earth magnet production runs into a worsening shortage...
Tuesday 2 December 2025
MXIC chairman wins prestigious semiconductor award, stresses product value over manufacturing
The Pan Wen Yuan Foundation announced on December 1 that MXIC chairman Miin Wu has been honored with the 19th Pan Wen Yuan Prize. The award aims to recognize lifetime achievements...
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Samsung, SK Hynix set profit-first DRAM regime
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, which control about 70% of the global DRAM market, signalled in recent IR meetings with global investment banks that they will not pursue aggressive...
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Android phone sales falter in China's Singles' Day promotion, pressuring SoC shipments

China's smartphone sales during the 2025 Singles' Day period posted only modest growth, and nearly all of the gains came from Apple,...

Tuesday 2 December 2025
Samsung Electronics to maintain quarterly DRAM supply negotiations amid rising memory costs
Samsung Electronics' Device Solutions (DS) division will continue negotiating mobile DRAM supplies on a quarterly basis with its Mobile eXperience (MX) division, despite ongoing memory...
Tuesday 2 December 2025
South Korea's tech leaks surge 50% as China deploys shell companies
South Korea is facing a sharp rise in industrial technology leakage cases, with incidents increasing nearly 50% year-over-year amid growing risks of Chinese attempts to steal proprietary...
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Samsung Electro-Mechanics to expand AI server MLCC production at Philippine plant in 2026
Samsung Electro-Mechanics is set to increase its AI server multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) production by expanding capacity at its Calamba City plant in the Philippines starting...
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Merck launches Kaohsiung semiconductor flagship campus to target AI and silicon photonics
Merck Group's Kaohsiung semiconductor technology flagship campus officially completed phase one on December 1, marking Merck's first large-scale semiconductor materials technology...
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Gigabyte subsidiary partners with Syrma SGS to begin local server motherboard manufacturing in India
Giga Computing, a subsidiary of Gigabyte Technology, has entered a strategic partnership with India-based electronics manufacturing services provider Syrma SGS Technology to begin...
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Apple's potential Intel partnership hinges on 18A-P process maturity by 2027
Apple may resume chip production cooperation with Intel for entry-level M-series chips as early as 2027, contingent on the maturity of Intel's 18A-P process within 18 to 24 months...
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Samsung, SK Hynix lead HBM market, capitalize on Google's TPU push
Google's expanding investment in custom AI accelerators is reshaping the high-bandwidth memory market and lifting Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix as demand for tensor processing...
Tuesday 2 December 2025
MediaTek secures Google V7e chip order, eyes 2M units by 2027
Amid rising demand for Google's TPU chips, MediaTek has emerged as a key ASIC supplier with confirmed orders for its V7e product line set to begin shipping in the second half of 2026...
Tuesday 2 December 2025
A TSMC pioneer questions the judgment behind Wei-jen Lo’s move to Intel at 75
Former senior vice president of corporate strategy development at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Wei-jen Lo, was recently reported to have taken confidential documents...
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Nvidia's US$2 billion Synopsys stake signals a bid to strengthen CUDA ecosystem amid ASIC challenges
Nvidia's US$2 billion investment in Synopsys marks a pivotal attempt to extend CUDA and GPU-accelerated computing from AI training into the core of industrial and semiconductor engineering,...