Japanese electronic giant Sony has just opened a new factory in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, and has purchased land in Kumamoto Prefecture, intending to build another CMOS Image Sensor...
The US is fortifying itself against a potential dumping of Chinese-made legacy chips, a risk foreseen by Taiwan-based IC design houses amid a decoupling of the global chip market.
Nippon Steel Corporation, one of the world's largest steel makers, said on December 18 that it would buy the United States Steel Corporation for about US$14.9 billion. The purchase...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang recently admitted that Huawei is a formidable competitor. Huang, however, downplayed the significance of Huawei's 7-nanometer chip, stating that there is nothing...
Weak demand in the market is not preventing Taiwan-based passive component makers from expanding overseas capacity, with Southeast Asia being a major destination for their new plan...
As the global factory manufacturing model breaks down under geopolitical concerns, the paradigm has gradually shifted to region-centric production in local facilities. Hon Hai (Foxconn)...
BYD has stepped up its semiconductor business deployment, extending its Chengdu production location to add fab capacity for automotive chips, according to industry sources in China...
Inventory restocking is anticipated to increase capacity utilization within the semiconductor supply chain starting in the latter half of 2024, according to market observers.
Despite global inflation, rising interest rates, and challenges in the Chinese economy impacting the PCB industry Taiwan's three major copper-clad laminate (CCL) suppliers –...
Samsung Electronics is not only investing actively in the R&D and capacity expansion of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) technology, but also looking to broaden its market reach through...
After a two-month pause on its battery project in Michigan, Ford said it has scaled back the plan and is ready to proceed. The battery factory, which will license CATL's technology,...
TSMC's capacity utilization rate is estimated to pick up slowly through the end of 2023 and rebound to 80% in the first half of 2024, and its US dollar revenue performance this year...
In 2024, China is poised to achieve a total solar industry capacity of 1,000 GW, a level that can meet global demand for the next decade. Despite Europe and the US grappling with...