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Tuesday 27 October 2026
Chinese EVs push imported models ahead of South Korean vehicles
Imported electric vehicles captured more than half of South Korea's new electric passenger-car registrations during the first nine months of 2026, marking the first time the share...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
PSMC capacity crunch holds back Jeju Semiconductor's growth
South Korean memory chip designer Jeju Semiconductor is struggling to secure enough wafer capacity from Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing (PSMC), limiting its sales growth...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
China AI token debate highlights challenge of monetizing compute
More than half of China's AI token usage is reportedly concentrated in short dramas and video generation, but ByteDance's Doubao has disputed the figure, saying video-generation models...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Fujifilm expands South Korean capacity to meet AI chip demand
Fujifilm Electronic Materials is expanding its advanced semiconductor materials footprint in South Korea by increasing extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photoresist capacity in Pyeongtaek...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix eye 2Q27 shipments of 8-layer HBM4 to Nvidia
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are targeting the second quarter of 2027 to begin volume shipments of eight-layer HBM4 memory to Nvidia, ZDNet Korea reported on October 26,...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Inside SKT’s push to turn SK Hynix’s fabs into an AI business
South Korean telecommunications provider SK Telecom (SKT) has reportedly established Hy-TF, a task force dedicated to AI collaboration with SK Hynix, to upgrade its digital-twin and...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
China supply-chain price hikes strain domestic demand
China’s semiconductor and electronics supply chains are reporting a wave of price increases, from Goke Microelectronics raising quotes for hybrid-packaged memory products to...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Fine M-Tec rejects component blame as foldable market outlook remains positive
Fine M-Tec has rejected claims that components it supplied contributed to reported display damage in Apple's first foldable iPhone, saying the issue involves multiple components and...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Japan sets JPY100 billion push to commercialize perovskite solar cells
Japan plans to provide about JPY100 billion (US$634.1 million) over four years to support mass production of next-generation perovskite solar cells, seeking to establish a domestic...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
HCLTech and Rapidus open India centers to support semiconductor engineering
HCLTech and Japan's Rapidus have inaugurated development centers in Bengaluru and Hubli, India, expanding their semiconductor engineering collaboration across Asia. The facilities...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
OPTOELEC seeks AI data center orders as Himax advances CPO optics
South Korean optics maker Optoelec is seeing growing interest from AI data center customers as it seeks to expand its wafer-level optics (WLO) business into high-speed optical communications,...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
NT1 plans to assemble Chinese delivery vans in Korea in 2027
South Korean autonomous delivery company NT1 plans to begin assembling Chinese-designed delivery vans locally in 2027, gradually adding Korean-made components as it seeks approval...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Hyundai supplier SL eyes first overseas robot deployment in US
South Korean automotive supplier SL is considering deploying its mobile dual-arm robot at a US factory in 2027 or 2028, potentially marking the system's first overseas deployment,...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
KAR bets on fleet monitoring as South Korea expands robotaxi trials
South Korean vehicle engineering company KAR plans to develop a monitoring system for the electronic controls it installs in autonomous vehicles, seeking recurring maintenance revenue...
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Samsung Executive Chairman reportedly eyes RX unit visit for humanoid robot push
Samsung Electronics Executive Chairman Lee Jae-Yong is reportedly set to visit the company's Robotics eXperience (RX) business unit in Seoul's Umyeon-dong by the end of October to...