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Tuesday 8 April 2025
India's CDIL and Infineon team up to tackle local chip market needs
CDIL Semiconductors, one of India's oldest semiconductor firms, is teaming up with Infineon Technologies to bring localized power discrete solutions to the Indian market.
Tuesday 8 April 2025
Samsung logs profit beat with boost from Galaxy smartphones
Samsung Electronics Co.'s quarterly profit beat expectations after strong demand for its Galaxy S25 smartphones and legacy DRAM outpaced slipping margins in the high-stakes AI memory...
Tuesday 8 April 2025
Taiwan stock market plummets: Trump's tariffs shake TSMC and investor confidence
On April 2, 2025, US President Donald Trump unveiled his reciprocal tariff policy, sparking a global stock market rout. Taiwan's stock market, reopening after the Qingming holiday,...
Tuesday 8 April 2025
Lip-Bu Tan gets real about Intel's foundry roadmap—and what it takes to win customers
For nearly 50 years, Intel remained committed to its integrated device manufacturing (IDM) model. From its founding CEO Robert Noyce to Paul Otellini, the company prioritized in-house...
Monday 7 April 2025
Executive Yuan announces supply chain support plan in response to Trump tariffs
The US has issued an executive order imposing a 32% reciprocal tariff on products exported from Taiwan. On April 7, Premier Jung-Tai Cho invited legislative party groups for discussions...
Monday 7 April 2025
Global wafer foundry battle: New leadership reshapes industry landscape
As geopolitical risks rise, many countries recognize the importance of semiconductor supply chain security and are accelerating efforts to achieve chip autonomy. The US and Japan...
Monday 7 April 2025
China semiconductor's Deepseek moment? SiCarrier lithography claims meet skepticism
SiCarrier, once a little-known name in China's chip sector, has jolted the semiconductor industry with bold claims of breakthroughs in photolithography—a field long ruled by...
Monday 7 April 2025
Apple's US$500 billion investment pledge fails to secure tariff exemptions
Apple CEO Tim Cook committed to bringing manufacturing back to the US with a US$500 billion investment. Yet, this move seemingly failed to earn Apple any exemption from tariffs. On...
Monday 7 April 2025
Etron's Nicky Lu on TSMC's global playbook and Taiwan's AI-memory pivot: no bottlenecks, no backpedaling

Generative AI is redrawing the tech landscape—from cloud to edge—while geopolitical tensions push countries to rethink their...

Monday 7 April 2025
Kumamoto launches semiconductor science park plan with TSMC-led hub at its core
In late March 2025, Kumamoto Prefecture unveiled the Kumamoto Science Park Promotion Vision, a plan to build a semiconductor-centered science park alongside a broader innovation ecosystem...
Monday 7 April 2025
China's aggressive SiC price war set to halve cost by 2025
The Sino-US trade war has accelerated global competition in compound semiconductors, with Chinese manufacturers now aggressively targeting price reductions in silicon carbide (SiC)...
Monday 7 April 2025
Shift in Taiwanese manufacturers' investment strategy under Trump's policies
The US is the world's largest economy, and following Donald Trump's inauguration in January 2025, there have been significant changes across various policies, including trade, domestic...
Monday 7 April 2025
With chip tariffs on the horizon, China goes solo—Is Taiwan prepared?
Just when the global supply chain thought it had a breather, US President Donald Trump's administration is stoking renewed tensions with China by threatening sweeping new tariffs...
Monday 7 April 2025
Supply chain forced to reinvent survival playbooks as US-China tariff war redefines industry rules
On April 3, 2025, the United States announced a 34% "reciprocal tariff" on Chinese goods. The next day, China retaliated with a 34% punitive tariff, marking the most significant escalation...
Monday 7 April 2025
Machvision eyes strategic opportunities; US reciprocal tariffs to yield limited fallout
As the US gears up to implement reciprocal tariffs, Taiwan's Machvision, a company specializing in PCB and semiconductor AOI equipment, has carefully assessed potential challenges...