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Wednesday 9 July 2025
How China's trade-in policy is reviving South Korea's 8‑inch chip sector
In the escalating US-China tensions, China's aggressive drive to boost domestic semiconductor production—coupled with a sweeping "trade-in" subsidy program—has led to...
Wednesday 9 July 2025
What Trump’s ‘tariff fines’ mean for Asia
US President Donald Trump has officially issued the latest round of tariff notices, targeting 14 countries, including Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, Tunisia, South Africa,...
Wednesday 9 July 2025
Top-3 Chinese suppliers of Apple all head to Hong Kong for IPO
Luxshare Precision, Lens Technology, and Goertek, China-based top-tier suppliers of Apple, are racing toward IPOs on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX) as they seek capital to fuel...
Wednesday 9 July 2025
TSMC's GaN market exit creates opening for Samsung, Asian chip race rage on
TSMC's recent decision to phase out its gallium nitride (GaN) foundry business is sending ripples through the compound semiconductor industry, opening the door for new contenders...
Wednesday 9 July 2025
Ex-SEMI China head leads E-Town Semiconductor to explosive STAR Market debut
Beijing E-Town Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd. (E-Town), a Chinese supplier of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, went public on the Shanghai STAR Market on July 8, 2025. The...
Wednesday 9 July 2025
Volvo cuts jobs in China as EV ambitions stall and global restructuring accelerates
Volvo Cars has begun laying off staff in its China operations, with the majority of the cuts affecting its Shanghai-based technical and research and development center, according...
Wednesday 9 July 2025
Rockchip sees 1H25 profit tripling on China's AIoT gold rush

Rockchip Electronics projects a sharp jump in first-half 2025 net profit, forecasting a year-on-year increase of 185% to 195% to reach...

Wednesday 9 July 2025
US lifts EDA ban, revives Synopsys-Ansys China deal prospects
The US and China have reached a preliminary trade agreement that includes the resumption of rare earth exports from China. In tandem, several electronic design automation (EDA) software...
Tuesday 8 July 2025
US-China semiconductor standoff sees tactical shifts as rare earths and EDA tools enter the fray

Industry insiders said US-China relations have been flammable ever since the trade war ignited, especially in the high-stakes arena of...

Tuesday 8 July 2025
Chinese display maker BOE set to dominate Apple MacBook panel supply in 2025
China's BOE Technology Group is poised to become Apple's largest MacBook panel supplier for the first time in 2025, capturing 51% market share as the iPhone maker shifts orders away...
Tuesday 8 July 2025
CXMT files for IPO to expand DRAM capacity as AI, geopolitics rewire global memory market
CXMT Corp., China's top domestic DRAM manufacturer, has initiated its IPO process, signaling a key step in the nation's pursuit of semiconductor independence. On July 7, 2025, China's...
Tuesday 8 July 2025
Whistleblower exposes Huawei's PanGu AI model copycat scandal
On June 30, 2025, Huawei released the source code for its PanGu 7B dense parameter model and the larger PanGuPro mixture-of-experts (MoE) 72B model, both tailored for inference on...
Tuesday 8 July 2025
China's semiconductor dreams stumble as another fab collapses
On June 13, 2025, Jiangsu Advanced Memory Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (AMS) announced that its restructuring plan had been abandoned. The planned investment from Huaxin Jiechuang Integrated...
Tuesday 8 July 2025
EDA tool ban lifted, China's PCB industry seizes strategic opening

As demand surges for AI, HPC, and high-speed communications, the PCB industry is entering a new phase of advanced innovation. Chinese...

Tuesday 8 July 2025
China Resources takes control of Konka in bid to forge chip-to-device tech giant
In June 2025, China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) approved China Resources (CRC)'s acquisition of Konka Group without conditions, marking a key move in CRC's...