Chinese carmakers are accelerating their entry into Thailand

Even since the US imposed sanctions on China, South Korean manufacturers have been storing old equipment in warehouses, incurring annual rental fees exceeding KRW20 billion (approx. US$14.6 million)

These are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories in the week of June 17 – June 21

Hong Kong Customs recently uncovered a CPU smuggling case, seizing 596 high-performance CPUs valued at around NT$50 million (approx. US$1.54 million)

BOE Technology, the largest Chinese display panel manufacturer, is reportedly placing equipment orders for its 8.6-generation (8.6G) OLED panel plant under construction in China. Many South Korean equipment makers, including Sunic System, Avaco, Shinsung E&G, and DMS, are expected to benefit as potential suppliers

Thanks to TSMC's investments in Kumamoto and its commitment to local sourcing, semiconductor material suppliers, including Tokyo Ohka Kogyo (TOK), Organo, and Sumco, are clustering in the Japanese prefecture

China's electric vehicle industry received at least $231 billion in government subsidies and aid from 2009 through to the end of last year, even as the amount of support per vehicle has declined, according to a new research

LG Electronics took another step forward to grow its EV charging business. The South Korean company has become a strategic partner of ChargePoint, a US-based EV charging solution provider. The pair will first collaborate on commercial EV charging in the US

Since the beginning of May, several well-known Large Language Model (LLM) enterprises in China have announced price reductions, including Aliyun, Baidu, KU Xiaofei, Tencent Cloud, ByteDance, and other operators

The recent reports of Apple's delayed launch of the next-generation Vision Pro cast a shadow over the market outlook for OLED on Silicon (OLEDoS) technologies

RISC-V, an open standard instruction set architecture, has garnered global attention due to its royalty-free nature and adaptability for custom hardware development

After launching its first Galaxy 24 series products and officially ushering in the AI smartphone era, Samsung Electronics is also gradually expanding the application of Generative AI (GenAI) across various product categories

The SK Group currently owns 219 subsidiaries, more than three times that of the Samsung Group

In 2024, the initial week of China's 618 TV sales showed impressive results, but sales in the second and third weeks weakened significantly

Chinese OSATs including Jiangsu Changjiang Electronics Technology (JCET) and Tongfu Microelectronics (TFME) have stepped up their deployments for advanced packaging, offering services to capitalize on the AI chip boom, according to industry sources