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Tuesday 16 June 2026
Yaskawa eyes physical AI boom with JPY25 billion capex
Yaskawa Electric is betting heavily on physical AI, the field that enables robots to operate autonomously, as it positions itself for a boom in AI robots. Since starting work with...
Tuesday 16 June 2026
Rapidus signs UK chip pact in push for 2nm customers

Japan's Rapidus has signed a memorandum of understanding with the UK Semiconductor Centre, a government-backed body established in 2025...

Tuesday 16 June 2026
Interview: From language to motion— Japanese startup APTO builds the data backbone for physical AI

Physical AI is emerging as a new frontier of model development. Any model, however, is only as good as the data used to train it. Because...

Monday 15 June 2026
Samsung foundry chief sees 2028 profit path as bonus costs mount

Samsung Electronics' foundry division chief told employees on June 12 that a return to profitability in the contract chipmaking business...

Monday 15 June 2026
South Korea's chip equipment players ride the HBM4 wave

South Korea's semiconductor equipment supply chain saw a material pickup in orders in the first half of 2026 as Samsung Electronics...

Monday 15 June 2026
China's new EV rules push European luxury PHEVs to the exit

European luxury automakers are pulling back from China's plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHEV) market after Beijing tightened eligibility requirements...

Monday 15 June 2026
InnoScience wins China patent ruling, Infineon GaN sales banned

The Supreme People's Court in China rejected Infineon's reconsideration request on June 12, 2026, upholding a Suzhou Intermediate People's...

Monday 15 June 2026
SK Hynix to test ChatGPT and Copilot as Samsung widens enterprise AI use
SK Hynix said it is evaluating external generative AI models, including ChatGPT Enterprise and Microsoft Copilot, as it pilots broader AI use across the company, following Samsung...
Monday 15 June 2026
Visionox pushes ViP OLED commercialization as China's flexible OLED utilization slumps

Chinese OLED panel maker Visionox is accelerating the commercialization of its proprietary Visionox intelligent Pixelization (ViP) technology...

Monday 15 June 2026
Samsung's Exynos 2600 doubles on-device AI performance in MLPerf benchmarks
Samsung Electronics announced that its Exynos 2600 mobile application processor delivered more than double the on-device AI performance of the Exynos 2500, according to benchmark results...
Monday 15 June 2026
SK Hynix readies HBM4 packaging push as Nvidia demand grows

SK Hynix is bringing additional back-end equipment into its Cheongju P&T6 facility as it steps up mass-production preparations for...

Monday 15 June 2026
LG Energy Solution secures patent licensing deal with Sunwoda, ending two-year dispute
LG Energy Solution (LGES) reached a patent licensing agreement with Chinese battery maker Sunwoda, ending a two-year legal battle that had involved courts in Germany, China, and South...
Monday 15 June 2026
X app age rating raised to 19+ on South Korean Google Play Store after Grok's adult-content policy change
On South Korea's Google Play store, the X app (formerly Twitter) was reclassified to "19 and up" after the social platform updated its community guidelines to permit consensual adult...
Sunday 14 June 2026
Taiwan's Eris expects order surge after sanctions on Chinese competitor
The global power semiconductor supply chain is undergoing another reshuffling, after Chinese chipmaker Nexperia triggered disruptions in 2025 and, more recently, China's Yangjie Technology...
Saturday 13 June 2026
Samsung to review strategy as memory boom pressures devices

Samsung Electronics is set to hold its semiannual global strategy meeting from June 16 to 18, with executives expected to review a split...