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Monday 23 June 2025
Xiaomi snaps up 120-acre Beijing site to scale EV output

Xiaomi is advancing its electric vehicle ambitions as its wholly owned unit, Xiaomi Jingxi Technology, secures a 50-year lease for a...

Monday 23 June 2025
YMTC beats Samsung as best SSD seller in JD.com's 618 bonanza
Chinese NAND flash manufacturer Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) has outperformed global rivals during a major domestic e-commerce event. Its consumer SSD brand ZhiTai claimed the...
Monday 23 June 2025
Pixel 10 chip deal goes to TSMC — Samsung enters post-Google overhaul mode
Samsung Electronics has launched an extensive internal review to regain ground in the advanced foundry market, triggered by the loss of Google's custom application processor (AP)...
Monday 23 June 2025
Renesas enters restructuring support deal with Wolfspeed as the latter deals with ongoing financial struggles
Renesas Electronics has entered a financial restructuring agreement with Wolfspeed, a US-based silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductor manufacturer, amid Wolfspeed's ongoing financial...
Monday 23 June 2025
Chinese graduates seeking semiconductor jobs targeted by scams
Fresh college graduates in China looking to enter the employment force have their hearts set on major players in the semiconductor industry. However, as they rush to submit resumes,...
Monday 23 June 2025
Weekly news roundup: Taiwan's Huawei export ban, Nvidia H20 blocked by US, TSMC-Samsung 2nm showdown
Below are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from June 16 to June 22, 2025. Top developments include tighter US chip restrictions on China, updates on the next-gen 2nm...
Monday 23 June 2025
NTT faces headwinds in co-packaged optics effort, pins hopes on Rapidus
Japanese telecommunications company NTT is encountering significant challenges in its efforts to mass-produce co-packaged optics (CPO), a next-generation technology increasingly critical...
Saturday 21 June 2025
What Ren Zhengfei didn’t say—lessons for Taiwan’s tech playbook
In a rare and insightful interview with People's Daily, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei shared his perspective under the headline "The
Saturday 21 June 2025
Beijing sends signal with Huawei: sanctions won’t stop AI ambitions
Just as US and Chinese officials resumed trade negotiations in London, China's state-run People's Daily did something unusual: it ran a rare front-page interview with Huawei's...
Saturday 21 June 2025
Nidec's Takisawa taps China's robot boom with precision tool push
Takisawa Machine Tool, a subsidiary of Japan's Nidec Corp., is leveraging its parent company's extensive sales networks and industrial connections to expand its presence in China's...
Friday 20 June 2025
China to inject US$19 billion in consumer subsidies as trade-in policy expands
In a continued push to stimulate domestic demand, China is set to release an additional CNY138 billion (approx. US$19 billion) in the second half of 2025 to fund subsidies for its...
Friday 20 June 2025
South Korea's Dongjin Semichem licenses OLED material patents to Merck and Idemitsu Kosan
South Korea's Dongjin Semichem has licensed its OLED material patents to major companies, including Germany's Merck and Japan's Idemitsu Kosan, highlighting its technological prowess...
Friday 20 June 2025
Intel-backed SATAS begins pilot line construction at Sharp's factory in Japan
The Semiconductor Assembly Test Automation and Standardization Research Association (SATAS), spearheaded by Intel Corporation in Japan, announced on June 19, 2025, that it has begun...
Friday 20 June 2025
NIO spins off chip division, wants slice of Nvidia's AI pie

NIO has launched a new chip design subsidiary — Anhui Shenji Technology — in a strategic move to become a full-stack provider...

Friday 20 June 2025
Samsung and SK Hynix reportedly accelerate VCT DRAM development as stepping stone to 3D DRAM
Samsung and SK Hynix are advancing vertical channel transistor (VCT) technology through 4F² DRAM prototypes as a transitional step toward 3D DRAM, while Micron is bypassing VCT...