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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...
Tuesday 12 August 2025
Sony’s solo run ends as Samsung rumored to land innovative iPhone sensor deal
Samsung Electronics Co. may have secured Apple's orders and become the second supplier of CMOS image sensors (CIS) for Apple's iPhone models, breaking Sony's long-standing exclusive...
Tuesday 12 August 2025
Taiwan's IC packaging and testing supply chain may avoid tariffs, but US expansion remains challenging
When US President Donald Trump announced increased investment in domestic manufacturing alongside Apple CEO Tim Cook, he also declared a 100% tariff on all chips and semiconductors...
Tuesday 12 August 2025
Ichia secures orders from major US firms for optical communication products, eye double-digit revenue share by 2027
Ichia Technologies reported a strong first half of 2025, with revenue climbing 20% above expectations. CEO Eric Tseng noted that while some consumer orders were pulled forward to...
Monday 11 August 2025
PixArt shifts gears in 3Q25: gaming mouse momentum fades, game consoles take the lead
PixArt Imaging posted second-quarter 2025 revenue of NT$2.28 billion (approx. US$76 million), falling 2.9% quarter-over-quarter but rising 11.5% from a year earlier. Gross margin...