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Thursday 30 October 2025
Pony.ai, WeRide duel for Hong Kong's first robotaxi stock in twin IPOs
The race is heating up. Two of China's top autonomous-driving firms — Pony AI Inc. (Pony.ai) and WeRide Inc. (WeRide) — have filed to go public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) on November 6, 2024, setting up a head-to-head contest for the title of Hong Kong's first robotaxi stock
Wednesday 29 October 2025
BYD reignites price war after smart driving campaign fails to spark demand

After dominating China's first wave of electric vehicle (EV) adoption, BYD is shifting its focus in 2025 from electrification to intelligent mobility. The automaker has launched what it calls a campaign for "smart driving for everyone," aiming to make autonomous driving technologies accessible to mass-market consumers

Wednesday 29 October 2025
South Korean tycoons meet Nvidia CEO as part of APEC corporate diplomacy
Leading South Korean conglomerate heads are set to engage in intensive "corporate diplomacy" during the 2025 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, meeting with global leaders and entrepreneurs to expand international cooperation and investment opportunities
Wednesday 29 October 2025
SK Hynix unveils new NAND line featuring HBF for AI
SK Hynix has launched a new NAND flash product family called "AIN Family," targeting the artificial intelligence (AI) market with a focus on overcoming storage bottlenecks in AI inference and large language models (LLMs). The highlight is the "AIN B" product, which adopts high-bandwidth flash (HBF) technology to boost performance
Wednesday 29 October 2025
Intel shifts assembly and testing to Vietnam, plans tech talent recruitment
Intel is planning to relocate part of its assembly, packaging, and testing capacity to Vietnam as part of a global strategic adjustment aimed at optimizing its manufacturing layout and boosting efficiency and competitiveness. The company has requested more support from the Vietnamese government during this transition
Wednesday 29 October 2025
Commentary: Lessons from Arm China and Nexperia’s unraveling

Over the past decade, China's tech sector has surged across chip design, foundry, and packaging. Yet beneath the slogan of "technological self-reliance", two corporate storms have laid bare the contradictions between global ambition and domestic control, exposing the limits of China's bid to lead the semiconductor world on its own terms

Wednesday 29 October 2025
A-SSCC to take place in South Korea, with 6 papers from Taiwan accepted
The IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), a major annual event in the semiconductor field, recently announced its paper selection results, with six papers from Taiwan accepted
Wednesday 29 October 2025
Trump's barriers reshape solar power sector; Chinese exits create US-Taiwan resurgence

As the world accelerates toward net-zero carbon goals in 2025, the contest for control over future energy supply has reached a boiling point. At the center of this struggle lies the solar power industry, dominated by China's photovoltaic (PV) supply chain, which accounts for more than 80% of global production

Wednesday 29 October 2025
Chinese panel makers' low prices win over shipments but lose out on revenue
Although Chinese panel manufacturers have recently gained market share, their profitability has been weak due to the high proportion of low-priced products. In contrast, South Korean companies are improving their business structure by focusing on OLED and high-end panel products
Wednesday 29 October 2025
Hanmi eyes AI chip packaging amid HBM market challenges
Hanmi is expanding beyond its leading position in high-bandwidth memory (HBM) bonding equipment to enter the system semiconductor equipment sector, driven by growing demand and technological advances in artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors
Wednesday 29 October 2025
LCD supply chain shift to Vietnam, but still lags behind China
Although the LCD industry supply chain has begun moving from China to Vietnam in the past two years, front-end panel processes remain mainly in China or Taiwan. Sarah Lin, president of Coretronic Corporation, stated that the influx of Chinese component and module suppliers building capacity in Vietnam has created a major test for Vietnam's factory construction speed, human resources, and local culture. After building a new factory in the first half of 2025, Lin believes that Vietnam's manufacturing efficiency is lower than China's
Wednesday 29 October 2025
CPCA Show Plus 2025: China's PCB industry rallies around the AI boom
The CPCA Show Plus 2025, one of Asia's largest printed circuit board (PCB) exhibitions, opened on October 28, 2025, in Shenzhen, drawing hundreds of global electronics manufacturers and suppliers
Wednesday 29 October 2025
Samsung to limit tri-fold smartphone launch to Asia, excludes US market
Samsung Electronics is reportedly preparing a limited release of its upcoming tri-fold smartphone in select markets, which include South Korea, China, and Taiwan. The US is expected to miss out on the initial release. Industry sources estimate that production will be limited to 50,000 units, with a possible price tag of up to US$3,000
Wednesday 29 October 2025
SK Hynix's AI hot streak: record earnings, HBM4 next
SK Hynix achieved its strongest quarterly results on record in the third quarter of 2025, driven by surging demand for AI-related memory and higher DRAM and NAND prices. The company reported revenue of KRW24.45 trillion (US$17 billion), operating profit of KRW11.38 trillion, and net income of KRW12.6 trillion, with operating and net margins at 47% and 52%
Wednesday 29 October 2025
Huawei Cloud on the back foot in China's AI race
Huawei Cloud is navigating one of its most turbulent periods yet. Confronted by internal and external headwinds—from a disciplinary probe and sweeping restructuring to a shrinking market share—the company that once rode China's cloud boom is now at a decisive crossroads