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Monday 1 September 2025
Weekly news roundup: Intel revives AI chip fight with Jaguar Shores; Samsung may invest in Intel packaging pushBelow are the top DIGITIMES Asia stories from August 25 to 31, 2025.
Monday 1 September 2025
Samsung steps up hiring in US as Tesla and Apple orders drive expansionSamsung Electronics is stepping up hiring for its US semiconductor operations, posting a wave of openings for engineers and process specialists in Austin and Taylor, Texas. The roles,...
Monday 1 September 2025
South Korea’s HBM pioneer highlights hybrid bonding and compute-in-memory trendsAs artificial intelligence and high-performance computing continue to advance rapidly, high-bandwidth memory (HBM) paired with GPUs has become a critical battleground in the semiconductor...
Sunday 31 August 2025
Semco’s CEO meets Boston Dynamics to plot robotics futureSamsung Electro-Mechanics (Semco) CEO Duckhyun Chang reportedly met Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter at the company's Suwon headquarters in late July to discuss potential cooperation...
Sunday 31 August 2025
South Korea targets wildfire control and airport safety with new drone initiativesThe drone industry is growing beyond its earlier focus on military applications into other industrial sectors and public safety. As an example, the South Korean government is accelerating...
Friday 29 August 2025
South Korean media points to TSMC as main cause of Samsung's AP procurement cost surgeSamsung Electronics' smartphone division is reportedly struggling with escalating cost pressures, largely attributed to the rapid rise in prices for mobile application processors...
Friday 29 August 2025
Impact of 'Yellow Envelope' bill spreads to IT industry as Naver, foreign businesses face labor disputesOn August 27, 2025, the labor unions of six sub-subsidiaries under South Korean internet giant Naver Corporation held a rally at Naver's headquarters, demanding negotiations with...
Friday 29 August 2025
Trump warns of tariffs after US-Korea summit, puts Seoul digital rules in spotlightThe US-Korea leaders' summit ended without touching on the issue of so-called "digital barriers," a long-standing grievance for US tech firms. Yet hours later, President Donald Trump...
Friday 29 August 2025
Samsung reportedly explores BOE's WOLED panels for its gaming monitorsBOE Technology is reportedly in talks with Samsung Electronics and other manufacturers to supply white OLED (WOLED) panels for monitors,...
Friday 29 August 2025
South Korea pushes sweeping data portability plan, critics warn of risksSouth Korea is moving to dramatically expand its "MyData" initiative—a personal data portability policy—beyond its current...
Thursday 28 August 2025
South Korea's industrial giants eye SMR solutions for energy securityDuring his visit to South Korea, Microsoft founder Bill Gates met with President Lee Jae-myung and SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won to explore business cooperation in small modular...
Thursday 28 August 2025
South Korea emerges as drone industry contender amid de-China trendsAs geopolitical factors and the demand for technological sovereignty shake up the global drone industry, South Korean drone companies are now emerging as alternatives to Chinese manufacturers,...
Thursday 28 August 2025
Micron CEO reportedly meets Samsung's MX division head, bolstering grip on Galaxy's DRAM supplyMicron is tightening its grip on Samsung's flagship smartphone supply chain, even as the South Korean tech giant works to steady its own memory production business.
Thursday 28 August 2025
Youngwoo DSP secures display equipment contract with Samsung Display VietnamSouth Korean display inspection equipment company Youngwoo DSP has signed a supply contract with Samsung Display Vietnam (SDV) valued at KRW17.9 billion (approx. US$13.2 million)...
Thursday 28 August 2025
Samsung is reportedly considering a stake in Intel to boost chip packaging and challenge TSMCSamsung Electronics is reportedly considering a strategic investment in Intel to strengthen its foundry business, according to South...
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- TSMC fine-tunes advanced packaging, delays projects, and trims low-return ops
- Samsung-Nvidia CEO embrace hints at HBM4 deal amid Seoul's U$150B US pledge
- TSMC to raise foundry prices by 5-10% across advanced nodes in 2026
- Inside TSMC's 2nm leak involving TEL: How a job application became an international incident
- Intel CEO rebuffs Trump resignation call in staff letter
- Exclusive: NAND flash rally gains steam with SanDisk's 10% price hike
- Huawei remains China’s sole heavyweight in AI chips
- Google reportedly explores combining TPU chips with Nvidia GPUs to cut costs and boost data center scaling
- China's AI agenda finds a backer: Ant Group expands into chips
- iPhone 17 sales forecast at 80 million units in 2H25, four major variables loom
Intel signals overhaul of IDM 2.0 and foundry strategy with Lip-Bu Tan's appointment, says DIGITIMES