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Tuesday 12 August 2025
South Korean President grants mass pardon, Samsung and SK elites relieved
With South Korea's Liberation Day approaching on August 15, President Jae-Myung Lee has decided to grant pardons to key figures, including former senior executives of Samsung's Future...
Tuesday 12 August 2025
H20 chip export resumes with 15% revenue remittance condition; industry fears ban is imminent
Despite positive news that Nvidia and AMD's H20 and MI308 chips have received official approval from the US government to resume exports to China, this permission comes with an unprecedented...
Tuesday 12 August 2025
South Korea's DeepX to supply AI chips for Baidu's drones and robots
South Korean AI semiconductor developer DeepX has struck a deal to supply chips for Chinese tech giant Baidu, targeting applications in drones and robotics. The partnership will integrate...
Tuesday 12 August 2025
Trump weighs Nvidia China chip deal, tying exports to US revenue cut
US President Donald Trump on August 11 signaled he may allow Nvidia to export a downgraded version of its latest Blackwell-architecture chip to China. While he gave no date for talks...
Tuesday 12 August 2025
Samsung partners with Acro in India's SSD market, tapping rapidly growing storage demand
Samsung Electronics has named Acro Engineering Company as its national distributor for solid-state drives (SSDs) in India. The partnership will see Acro distribute Samsung's latest...
Tuesday 12 August 2025
DDR4 contract prices surge in 3Q25 as Nanya and Winbond lead the rally
Tight supply of DDR4 DRAM has pushed contract prices into a sharp upward trajectory starting in the third quarter of 2025. Recently, senior procurement executives from major US-based...
Tuesday 12 August 2025
Samsung DDR4 EOL uncertainty clears, tariffs threaten 2H25 momentum
Contract prices for memory chips have strengthened in the third quarter of 2025, but rumors have swirled surrounding Samsung Electronics slowing down the end-of-life (EOL) for DDR4...
Tuesday 12 August 2025
Parade sees strong 2H25 with high-speed product growth and USB4 adoption
During its earnings call on August 7, 2025, high-speed interface provider Parade stated that its second-quarter revenue grew steadily, and gross margin improved, mainly due to a better...
Tuesday 12 August 2025
HiSilicon ally SJ Semi taps domestic lithography to scale advanced packaging output
SJ Semiconductor (Jiangyin) Corp. (SJ Semi), a major packaging and testing partner of Huawei's chip design arm HiSilicon, has received domestically developed back-end steppers from...
Tuesday 12 August 2025
TI's whispered price hike tests nerve of China's cutthroat chip market

Texas Instruments (TI) has become the focus of market speculation after unconfirmed — but not denied — reports that it plans...

Tuesday 12 August 2025
Could US chip export tariffs be new tool against China?
US President Donald Trump confirmed that Nvidia and AMD will pay 15% of their AI chip sales revenue in China to the US government under a rare deal tied to export licenses. This move...
Tuesday 12 August 2025
Trump floats weakened Blackwell export to China in return for US revenue share
US President Donald Trump signaled on Monday that he'd be open to allowing Nvidia Corp. to sell a scaled-back version of its most advanced AI chip to China.
Tuesday 12 August 2025
Micron raises outlook on strong DRAM pricing, AI demand
Micron Technology has lifted its guidance for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025, citing improved memory pricing and robust execution, particularly in its DRAM business. The revised...
Tuesday 12 August 2025
Trump says Intel CEO has 'amazing story,' sets Cabinet talks
President Donald Trump said members of his Cabinet would continue discussions with Lip-Bu Tan in the coming days after meeting with the Intel Corp. chief executive officer at the...
Tuesday 12 August 2025
Samsung's potential US$50 billion US chip expansion puts pressure on TSMC
Samsung Electronics is reportedly weighing a major expansion of its semiconductor investments in the US, a move that could push total spending to US$50 billion after securing multibillion-dollar...