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Thursday 14 August 2025
Samsung secures early ITC win in BOE OLED case amid looming 15-year US import ban
Samsung Display has secured a significant preliminary victory in its intellectual property battle against Chinese panel giant BOE Technology, with the US International Trade Commission...
Thursday 14 August 2025
Tencent widens AI chip sourcing as Beijing puts H20 under the microscope
Tencent reported second-quarter 2025 revenue of CNY184.5 billion (approx. US$26 billion), a 15% increase from a year earlier, with net profit rising 18% to CNY69.2 billion. On the...
Thursday 14 August 2025
Commentary: Huawei's Mate 80 showcases near-100% China supply chain in high-end smartphone drive
Over the past five years, Huawei's drive to localize smartphone components has shifted from a crisis response into a calculated, strategic effort to build a self-reliant supply chain...
Thursday 14 August 2025
Samsung aims to meet Tesla's chip packaging demand with new panel-level technology
Samsung Electronics is advancing development of its next-generation System-on-Panel (SoP) packaging technology, aiming to produce modules significantly larger than those possible...
Thursday 14 August 2025
Huawei fast-tracks Mate 80 launch, backed by 10+ key Chinese suppliers in Apple rivalry
Huawei will launch its 2025 flagship Mate 80 series in October, moving up its schedule to land near Apple's iPhone 17 debut in early September, according to supply chain sources....
Thursday 14 August 2025
Seoul Semiconductor leverages extensive patent portfolio, Wicop technology to accelerate Micro LED growth
Seoul Semiconductor, South Korea's leading LED manufacturer and the world's third-largest by market share in 2024, is intensifying its push into the fast-expanding micro LED sector...
Thursday 14 August 2025
Commentary: Trump's trillion-dollar shakedown and how tariff threats turned into investment windfalls
Following South Korea's shocking announcement to invest US$350 billion in the US, with 90% of the profits staying in the US, Nvidia and AMD reportedly have agreed to pay 15% of their...
Thursday 14 August 2025
South Korea-Vietnam summit sees Hyundai, SK, and LG boost investment momentum
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary To Lam recently met in Seoul to strengthen economic ties, aiming to boost trade and investment...
Thursday 14 August 2025
Japan, US to launch talks on US$550B investment projects following tariff deal
Japan and the US are moving to set up a joint forum to advance US$550 billion (around JPY80 trillion) worth of Japanese investment and loan projects in the US, following their July...
Thursday 14 August 2025
China's leading SiC epitaxy plants see quarterly order surge, signaling market bottom
China's SiC industry faces oversupply as 6-inch substrate prices plunge, prompting a strategic pivot to 8-inch wafers
Thursday 14 August 2025
US chip-gear maker sued in China over alleged trade secret theft
Top US chip-equipment supplier Applied Materials Inc. was sued by a rival in China over what that company characterized as trade secret theft, a further escalation in the technology...
Thursday 14 August 2025
India, China signal diplomatic thaw as US tariff pressure mounts
India and China are edging toward a diplomatic thaw, just weeks after US President Donald Trump doubled tariffs on Indian goods to 50%. New Delhi and Beijing are rolling out trade,...
Thursday 14 August 2025
Global DDR5 market pressured by CXMT's ramp-up
After a strong showing in the first half of 2025, driven by AI infrastructure investments and data center expansion, prices for DDR5 DRAM are projected to fall significantly in early...
Thursday 14 August 2025
China's solar pricing limits trigger global market chaos
After six months of inactivity, China’s solar industry associations and national authorities reimposed price and production limits in mid-July 2025. This decision sent shockwaves...
Wednesday 13 August 2025
Rising G2 competition impacts American cloud services in China and Hong Kong
Nextlink, a cloud service agent, reported a 6.6% increase in revenue to approximately NT$2.086 billion (approx. US$69.5 million) in the first half of 2025 compared to the same period...