Global supply chain: Advanced economies

Advanced economies news coverage

IN THE NEWS

Monday 19 May 2025

AI windfall lifts Kioxia to record highs, but NAND headwinds loom into 2025

Japanese NAND flash memory maker Kioxia reported a sharp earnings rebound for fiscal 2024 (April 2024 to March 2025), recording a net profit of JPY272.3 billion (approx. USD 1.9 billion)...

Monday 19 May 2025

Pre-tariff rush leaves US car market facing cold spell

As President Donald Trump's auto tariff policy begins to take effect—levying duties on foreign-made vehicles and parts while exempting...

Monday 19 May 2025

Taiwan's tech giants raise spending to navigate geopolitical risks and AI boom

A new wave of capital expenditure is sweeping through Taiwan's electronics manufacturing sector, as major firms like Quanta Computer and Foxconn significantly raise their 2025 investment...

Monday 19 May 2025

Dynabook embraces AI-powered decade with AIoT and XR expansion

Dynabook Technology (Taiwan) Co. marked the 40th anniversary of the Dynabook brand with a press event on May 14, 2025, reflecting on its four-decade journey and outlining its AI-driven...

Sunday 18 May 2025

Taiwanese startup launches AI-powered green energy trading platform

Thingnario has unveiled an AI-agent-powered platform that streamlines green energy procurement for electricity retailers in Taiwan's evolving power market. The system integrates large...

Sunday 18 May 2025

Jensen Huang brings in Compal, as Foxconn chair sits out

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, continued his closely watched Taiwan visit with a high-profile gathering of semiconductor and electronics...

Saturday 17 May 2025

From soy milk to silicon: the untold story of Taiwan's chip ascent

The documentary A Chip Odyssey, directed by Chu-Chen Hsiao and more than five years in the making,...

Saturday 17 May 2025
Nvidia CEO turns spotlight back to Taiwan
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrived in Taiwan on May 16, marking the start of a tightly scheduled visit that blends symbolic gestures with...

Friday 16 May 2025
Robust.AI partners with Foxconn to scale U.S. production of warehouse robots
Robust.AI, a U.S.-based developer of AI-powered warehouse automation, has announced a manufacturing partnership with Taiwan's Foxconn...

Friday 16 May 2025
DDR4 market set for price war between Chinese and Taiwanese manufacturers after Samsung and SK Hynix exit

According to New Daily, citing semiconductor industry sources, the DRAM giants Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron plan to exit the DDR4 market by the first half of...

Friday 16 May 2025

Taiwan's green energy shift drives grid costs higher

The shift to renewable energy wheeling is an irreversible trend in Taiwan, with rapidly growing demand for green energy from the country's high-tech industries, but the state-run...

Friday 16 May 2025

Tesla's centralized 'vehicle brain' strategy loses traction as rivals embrace domain-zonal architectures

As the global automotive industry rapidly advances toward next-generation electronic and electrical (E/E) architectures, the combined use of domain controllers and zonal controllers...

Friday 16 May 2025

Taiwan green energy prices likely to rise, as new offshore wind projects become official

Although Taiwan's corporate power purchase agreement (CPPA) for offshore wind energy has offered a steady channel for green energy for industrial use, much attention has turned to...

Friday 16 May 2025

Taiwan's NAFCO gains market share as Boeing rebounds and rival faces production setback

National Aerospace Fasteners Corporation (NAFCO) is positioned for robust performance in 2025, benefiting from Boeing's order rebound and supply chain disruptions affecting competitors,...

Friday 16 May 2025

ASE maintains semiconductor packaging dominance despite Chinese surge

Taiwan's ASE Technology Holdings and US-based Amkor Technology maintain their positions atop the global outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) market, though both face...

3/1353 pages