China and the Netherlands agreed that their governments should create a favorable environment for companies to resolve the Nexperia dispute through consultation, China's Ministry of Commerce said July 16.

Powertech Technology is deepening its panel-level packaging (FOPLP) strategy after its board approved a joint venture with Broadcom in Singapore to build panel-level advanced packaging (PLP) manufacturing capacity, with the planned investment totaling US$400 million.

China's AI industry is shifting from model scale to the infrastructure needed to train, deploy and commercialize AI, with supernodes, high-speed interconnects, and computing efficiency dominating WAIC 2026.

ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) opened subscriptions for its STAR Market IPO on July 16, launching one of China's largest A-share listings of 2026 and marking the country's first complete DRAM journey from technology acquisition and manufacturing validation to mass production and capital market recognition.

ChangXin Memory Technologies' (CXMT) STAR Market IPO is more than just one of China's biggest semiconductor listings. It also marks the culmination of Zhu Yiming's two-decade effort to build a domestic memory industry, taking the entrepreneur from founding flash memory designer GigaDevice to creating China's first globally competitive DRAM maker.

Vietnam has opened direct access to green electricity for companies, easing a major obstacle for Foxconn and its suppliers as global electronics makers shift production away from China. The change could help global supply chains expand in Vietnam while also increasing pressure on the country's power system, renewable capacity, and environmental management.

SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won has floated a "memory as a service" model for SK Hynix, saying the memory chipmaker needs to build a higher-value business beyond manufacturing and selling chips.