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Wednesday 3 December 2025
Global smartphone industry, 3Q 2025

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Wednesday 3 December 2025
LCD TV panel prices to hold steady in December despite weak Single's Day
As China's Singles' Day TV sales fell short of expectations, international brands have increased early procurement ahead of major 2026 sports events, supporting stable LCD TV panel...
Wednesday 3 December 2025
Memory spot prices surged as Samsung's RDIMM limitedly ease supply in late 4Q25
Global memory capacity remained tight with strong demand pushing DRAM and NAND flash spot prices sharply higher in November. Samsung Electronics planned to moderately release RDIMM...
Wednesday 3 December 2025
China props up global EV market as growth slows
As global demand for electric vehicles cools, suppliers across the EV supply chain are shifting toward hybrid and plug-in hybrid models to maintain steady growth. Yet despite intensifying...
Wednesday 3 December 2025
Marvell reports strong third-quarter growth driven by data center demand
Marvell Technology reported strong third-quarter results driven by accelerating demand for AI data center products, with revenue, profit, and key business segments posting sharp year-over-year...
Wednesday 3 December 2025
North American EMS providers see growth from AI data-center boom
North American electronics manufacturing services (EMS) and original design manufacturing (ODM) providers are seeing sustained, broad-based growth as accelerating investment in AI...
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
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
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
OpenAI–Thrive equity swap raises fresh circular-deal questions
OpenAI's decision to take an ownership stake in Thrive Holdings has reignited debate over whether the arrangement constitutes another circular deal. While analysts warn the structure...
Tuesday 2 December 2025
AI drives Samsung's 2026 operating profit toward KRW100T
Artificial intelligence (AI) is fueling a DRAM supercycle, prompting South Korean securities firms to continuously raise their forecasts for Samsung Electronics' operating profit...
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Copper shock, AI PCB demand recasts global CCL pricing
Costs for copper foil and electronic-grade glass fibre cloth are climbing at the same time that AI infrastructure build-out is fuelling strong demand for high-frequency, high-speed...