Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has announced its latest fan-out-chip-on-substrate-bridge (FOCoS-Bridge) technology innovation, which involved qualifying a large 70x78mm package containing two ASICs and eight HBM devices connected by eight silicon bridges.

After months of negotiations, Taiwan and the U.S. signed the first agreement under the U.S.-Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century Trade on June 1 in Washington D.C. It outlines practices and procedures aimed at streamlining and strengthening trade relations. Both sides of negotiators deserve a round of accolades, but the fact that it does not cover tariff reductions or exemptions still puts many stakeholders down.

Taiwan's semiconductor supply chain has "fine-tuned" production plans for a major artificial intelligence (AI) chip client in order to satisfy demand in time, according to industry sources.

The global LCD panel industry will likely see its output value continue to decline in 2023 after suffering a setback in the previous year when the industry's capacity utilization fell sharply due to the impacts of the pandemic, war and rising inflation, according to industry sources.

Samsung Display (SDC) has disclosed plans to invest KRW4.1 trillion (US$3.1 billion) in building 8.6G IT-use OLED panel production lines by 2026, but tight supply of the core evaporation equipment and exorbitant quotes from the main supplier Canon Tokki may slow down the progress of the investment project, according to Korean media reports.

Samsung Display (SDC) will, for the first time ever, supply main automotive displays to Hyundai Motor, which is expected to further deepen the future vehicle alliance between Samsung Electronics and Hyundai and extend their cooperation into the vehicle electrification and intelligence field, according to Korean media reports.

The recent surge in generative AI will drive the rigid demand for PCs, a positive development for the PC industry, according to Acer chairman and CEO Jason Chen.

Taiwan-based electronics ODM Qisda, with businesses spanning across IT, medical solutions, smart solutions, and network communications, expects its shipments of AIoT systems to grow by a middle or even high double digit on the AI whirlwind brought by Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang, according to company president Joe Huang.

The state government of Karnataka in southern India announced that Foxconn would make iPhones there as the world's largest electronics manufacturer embarks on a series of investments in India amid global supply chain diversification.

Smartphones shipped to the China market shrank to only 62 million units in the first quarter of 2023, down 12.4% sequentially and 7.2% on year, but the volumes in the second quarter are expected to stay at about the same level as in the first, according to DIGITIMES Research's latest figures from the report covering China's smartphone market.

When George Zhao, CEO of Huawei-spinoff smartphone brand Honor, was asked about the Chinese mobile brand's strategy to develop its own chips at the Honor 90 launch event on May 29, he stated that he does not rule out the possibility.

At the 2023 EU-Taiwan Space Opportunity Symposium on May 29, leading players in Taiwan's satellite industry gathered to explore cooperation opportunities with the European Union (EU). The event was co-organized by the European Economic and Trade Office, the EU's representative office in Taiwan, and the Taiwan Space Agency (TASA).