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Tuesday 2 December 2025
South Korea's tech leaks surge 50% as China deploys shell companies
South Korea is facing a sharp rise in industrial technology leakage cases, with incidents increasing nearly 50% year-over-year amid growing risks of Chinese attempts to steal proprietary technologies. Key sectors such as rechargeable batteries and semiconductors—where South Korea holds exclusive expertise—are under heightened pressure from increasingly sophisticated, organized, and international espionage efforts
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Wednesday 3 December 2025
South Korea receives first 13,000 Nvidia GPUs under Jensen Huang's AI infrastructure pledge
Following Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's commitment to supply 260,000 GPUs to South Korea, the government has received its first shipment of approximately 13,000 units, including the latest B200 GPUs and a range of earlier-generation models
Wednesday 3 December 2025
Trio of Chinese humanoid-robot giants seize majority of 2025 contracts
China's humanoid robotics sector remains some way from mass deployment, but commercialization is accelerating in 2025, with Ubtech, Unitree Robotics , and AgiBot securing 60% of disclosed large orders
Wednesday 3 December 2025
China props up global EV market as growth slows
As global demand for electric vehicles cools, suppliers across the EV supply chain are shifting toward hybrid and plug-in hybrid models to maintain steady growth. Yet despite intensifying competition, China remains the single most important engine sustaining global EV demand
Wednesday 3 December 2025
Intel taps Amkor in Korea for advanced chip packaging
Intel is reportedly outsourcing the advanced packaging of its artificial intelligence semiconductors to Amkor Technology Inc.'s facility in Incheon, South Korea, marking the first time the US chip giant has relied on an external partner for this critical process, according to South Korea's ET News
Wednesday 3 December 2025
Tariffs are here to stay, and global supply chains may never look the same
As DIGITIMES Tech Forum takes place on December 3, 2025, DIGITIMES Research deputy director Tom Lo highlighted challenges and opportunities for Taiwan's technology supply chain amid the evolving trade and technological landscape under US President Donald Trump's second administration. Lo stressed that Taiwan's companies can no longer rely on a single-market, single-production-base model due to rising trade barriers and regionalized production
Wednesday 3 December 2025
Chinese server makers gain ground globally as US tariffs reshape industry manufacturing strategies
Taiwanese EMS companies accelerate factory setups in the US, while Chinese server brands expand overseas amid changing global dynamics
Wednesday 3 December 2025
China's Kingboard raises prices again as copper and fiberglass costs soar

Following price-hike announcements from Taiwan's major copper-clad laminate (CCL) makers, including Nan Ya, China's market leader Kingboard Laminates Holdings has issued its third price increase in less than a year, citing a sharp surge in copper prices, tightening supplies of electrolytic copper, and an increasingly strained fiberglass market. Confronted with mounting cost pressures, the company said it would implement broad price adjustments on all materials beginning December 1

Wednesday 3 December 2025
Huawei Cloud reinforces ICT backbone to navigate the next AI cycle
Huawei Cloud entered a new phase of its intelligent-computing strategy in late November 2025 with a sweeping leadership and organizational overhaul
Wednesday 3 December 2025
South Korea taps nuclear power plants for hydrogen production and decarbonization
Facing rapid growth in renewable energy, increased grid dispatch pressures, and decarbonization demands from hard-to-electrify industries like refining and petrochemicals, South Korea is combining existing nuclear power plants with water electrolysis technology to achieve a low-carbon, stable, and large-scale hydrogen supply. Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) has moved beyond basic research and, with government support, has begun verification projects
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Vivo launches iQOO in Taiwan, targets gaming and midrange consumers
Vivo has introduced its iQOO sub-brand to Taiwan with the launch of the iQOO 15, marking the brand's first official entry into the market. The company aims to use iQOO's gaming-centric identity to strengthen its overall smartphone momentum in Taiwan's competitive midrange segment
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Samsung, SK Hynix set profit-first DRAM regime
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, which control about 70% of the global DRAM market, signalled in recent IR meetings with global investment banks that they will not pursue aggressive supply expansion. Their cautious stance comes as DRAM shortages widen from servers to PCs and smartphones
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Samsung Electronics to maintain quarterly DRAM supply negotiations amid rising memory costs
Samsung Electronics' Device Solutions (DS) division will continue negotiating mobile DRAM supplies on a quarterly basis with its Mobile eXperience (MX) division, despite ongoing memory shortages and surging prices, according to reports from the Seoul Economic Daily and Nate. This approach aims to enhance DS's profitability but increases cost pressures on the MX division ahead of the Galaxy S26 series launch
Tuesday 2 December 2025
As South Korea pursues grid stability and decarbonization, hydrogen energy must prove its worth
Hydrogen power is expected to play a pivotal role in South Korea's smart grid as the country unveils its updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) carbon reduction targets for 2035. Yet with resources and investments lagging behind other leading competitors, South Korea will need to reassess the role of hydrogen energy in sectors spanning power generation and transportation to heavy industry, if the country aims to see tangible results from advancing hydrogen power
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Samsung Display maps out OLED expansion in Vietnam's Bac Ninh hub
Samsung Display (SDC) is preparing to reposition Vietnam's Bac Ninh Province as a core base for its next-generation OLED business under a plan that shifts the facility from a general production site to a center for high-value display technologies. The blueprint was outlined during a November 24 meeting between Bac Ninh People's Committee chairman Pham Hoang Son and SDC Vietnam executive director Kang Ui-sik, according to local outlet Cafe Land and Korean media G-enews
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Samsung, SK Hynix lead HBM market, capitalize on Google's TPU push
Google's expanding investment in custom AI accelerators is reshaping the high-bandwidth memory market and lifting Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix as demand for tensor processing unit-based systems rises in data centers