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Tuesday 29 September 2026
Samsung bonus plan to lift South Korea talent race

Samsung Electronics' Device Solutions division is set to announce the calculation and payout rules for its special management performance...

Tuesday 29 September 2026
GlobalFoundries eyes GaN expansion to challenge TSMC in AI

GlobalFoundries (GF) is preparing a major global capacity expansion as TSMC is set to gradually exit gallium nitride (GaN) foundry services...

Tuesday 29 September 2026
Taiwan's Brave Eagle reaches 55% domestic content, bringing 200 suppliers into aerospace

Taiwan's Brave Eagle advanced jet trainer program officially concluded its production phase in 2026, but the capabilities developed...

Tuesday 29 September 2026
Chips make up nearly half of South Korea's September exports; China, Hong Kong account for 52% of them
Semiconductors made up nearly half of South Korea's exports in the first 20 days of September, while China and Hong Kong combined accounted for more than half of the country's chip...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
South Korea looks beyond high-nickel NCM in battery push
South Korea is broadening its battery strategy beyond high-nickel NCM, stepping up investment in sodium-ion, all-solid-state and lower-cost technologies after acknowledging that its...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Trump-Xi state dinner puts tech titans at the head table, spotlighting Taiwan's quiet supply chain clout

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife, Peng Liyuan, arrived at the White House on the evening of September 24 US time to attend...

Tuesday 29 September 2026
LG AI Research expands sovereign AI push into Kazakhstan, Middle East
LG AI Research is moving into Kazakhstan and the Middle East to capture demand for sovereign AI in emerging markets. The South Korea-based unit is using its model development and commercialization...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
South Korean component makers face price cuts as memory costs climb

South Korean electronics component suppliers are under growing pressure as rising memory prices drive chip inflation deeper into the...

Tuesday 29 September 2026
Posco Future M lands KRW1.1 trillion LFP cathode deal with SK On
Posco Future M signed a large lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathode materials supply contract with SK On for 2027 to 2029, in a deal worth about KRW1.1 trillion (US$810 million). The...
Tuesday 29 September 2026
Advantech's North America expansion signals a deeper shift toward local manufacturing, services

Advantech is expanding manufacturing, engineering, and fulfillment capabilities in North America as demand grows for locally designed...

Tuesday 29 September 2026
Taiwan PCB output hits record high on AI demand, putting NT$1 trillion year within reach

AI server, high-speed networking, and memory demand continued to lift Taiwan's PCB industry in the second quarter of 2026, boosting...

Tuesday 29 September 2026
Global 2026 EV sales to grow just 6.5% as Chinese exports become primary driver
DIGITIMES Intelligence forecasts global electric vehicle (EV) sales to reach 22.34 million units in 2026, representing a modest 6.5% year-over-year increase—a sharp deceleration...
Monday 28 September 2026
South Korea's HBM-linked exports surge as Taiwan, Malaysia emerge as high-value destinations

South Korea's exports of the customs category that carries high-bandwidth memory (HBM) are no longer a two-destination story. Unit-value...

Sunday 27 September 2026
Meta Muse fuels agentic AI demand, tightening CPU supply

Meta's AI assistant Muse is drawing strong market response, and the rise of agentic AI is drawing attention to AI infrastructure shortages...

Sunday 27 September 2026
South Korea's 300mm research gap: Daejeon pitches an open fab as a US$1.46 billion fix
Daejeon is seeking to build a roughly KRW2 trillion (approx. US$1.46 billion) national semiconductor research hub centered on an open 300mm manufacturing and demonstration fab, aiming...