Longsys Electronics' recent acquisitions of Zilia (formerly SMART Brazil) and Longforce Technology Suzhou (formerly Powertech Technology Suzhou) mark the Chinese memory module specialist's diversification into the semiconductor backend sector.
Recently, a Meta executive for the South and Southeast Asia region stated that Vietnam has the potential to become one of the hubs for the AI industry due to the country's open policies and entrepreneurial spirit.
Sony inaugurated an expanded facility in central Thailand, which will make automotive CMOS image sensors (CIS), OLED display components for digital cameras, and laser diodes for high-capacity hard disks.
China-based MCU and NOR flash provider GigaDevice plans to participate in Changxin Memory Technologies' (CXMT) latest capital increase, citing the increasing demand for DRAMs in China.
Amid export restrictions imposed by the US and its allies and a move to indigenization, lithography equipment exports to China slowed in the first two months of 2024.
SK Hynix is expanding the High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) contribution to its DRAM revenues and expects a deepening effect of the customization trend of HBM.
Chinese customs statistics indicate that Electric Vehicle (EV) exports from China to Europe and the US decreased by 20% and over 40%, respectively, year-on-year during the first two months of 2024.
SMIC reported its financial results for 2023, and due to the industrial downturn, sales and profit declined for the reporting period. SMIC plans to navigate 2024 steadily and stably.
SEMICON China 2024, which was held in Shanghai on March 20-22, attracted many Japanese semiconductor equipment manufacturers to showcase their front-end and backend mature node process equipment. Quite a few are related to power semiconductors.
Chinese President Xi Jinping criticized "technological barriers" during Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's visit to Beijing as the US pushes to tighten controls on ASML Holding NV's chipmaking-equipment sales to the Asian country.
Xiaomi Corp.'s $8 billion stock rally faces a key test when the Chinese smartphone giant unveils its first electric vehicle Thursday, as it attempts to muscle into an unfamiliar and intensely competitive market.
Japan's semiconductor chemicals vendor Tokyo Ohka Kogyo (TOK) has stated that the increasing demand for AI chips will drive up sales and market shares of its extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and ArF photoresists.