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Thursday 19 June 2025
LG Display plans huge investment to boost OLED technology through 2027
LG Display announced a planned investment of approximately KRW1.26 trillion (around US$920 million) to boost its OLED technology capabilities and support its ongoing shift from LCD...
Thursday 19 June 2025
Nintendo Switch 2 goes supersonic, Samsung chips in with billion-dollar upside
Nintendo's highly anticipated Switch 2 console launched to surging global demand, setting sales records in both Japan and the US while simultaneously boosting prospects for Samsung...
Thursday 19 June 2025
JD.com billionaire unveils turnaround plan after five-year slump
JD.com Inc. founder Richard Liu vowed to speed up an overseas foray and compete with Meituan in new arenas, from food delivery to travel, describing his boldest attempt yet to revive...
Thursday 19 June 2025
DNP to fully operate 8G OLED metal mask factory by March 2028
Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) is set to fully operate its eighth-generation OLED display substrate metal mask factory by the fiscal year 2027, spanning April 2027 to March 2028, with...
Thursday 19 June 2025
South Korea's Lee Jae-Myung softens stance on chaebols in first talks with big corporations
South Korea's newly inaugurated President Lee Jae-Myung held his first "lunchbox roundtable" with leaders of the nation's top five chaebols and six major business groups. At the meeting,...
Wednesday 18 June 2025
Apple turns to Alibaba for AI push in China, drawing US concern

Alibaba has open-sourced 32 variants of its latest Qwen 3 language models, designed specifically to run on Apple's MLX machine learning...

Wednesday 18 June 2025
Nittobo material price hikes exclude AI server-grade glass fabric
Japanese glass fiber supplier Nitto Boseki (Nittobo) reportedly has raised prices of its composite material products by up to 20% due to increasing costs, but the price hike does...
Wednesday 18 June 2025
US sanctions in the rearview? Huawei talks tough on 5G-A, AI at MWC Shanghai
Amid mounting US sanctions and continued supply chain constraints on its HiSilicon Ascend processors, Huawei took the spotlight at the MWC Shanghai 2025 Global Mobile Broadband Elite...
Wednesday 18 June 2025
Japan's MinebeaMitsumi extends Shibaura bid while Yageo awaits security clearance
Japanese electronics manufacturer MinebeaMitsumi has decided to extend its tender offer for temperature sensor producer Shibaura Electronic until July 1, postponing the initial deadline...
Wednesday 18 June 2025
Huawei’s AI weather model among top performers in China tests
China’s weather agency is testing more than a dozen artificial intelligence models in an effort to enhance its forecasting, with a system from Huawei Technologies Co. showing...
Wednesday 18 June 2025
Japan's Yaskawa invests US$180M in US robot production
Japanese industrial automation giant Yaskawa has announced a US$180 million investment to establish a new production base in Wisconsin, creating the company's first industrial robot...
Wednesday 18 June 2025
Trump Mobile's T1 phone shows signs of Chinese origin despite 'all-American' claims
The Trump Organization unveiled Trump Mobile on June 16, 2025, promoting it as an all-American wireless provider with a flagship T1 phone boasting made-in-USA credentials. However,...
Wednesday 18 June 2025
Trump tightens China chip curbs as Nvidia's H20 faces new export limits
The US expanded semiconductor restrictions to include Nvidia's H20 chip, previously the only compliant AI processor available to Chinese buyers, as the Trump administration deepens...
Wednesday 18 June 2025
Korean exporters brace for turmoil as US tariffs and Middle East conflict roil global trade
South Korean exporters are facing mounting pressure from a confluence of geopolitical and trade shocks, as the intensifying conflict between Israel and Iran rattles global commodity...
Wednesday 18 June 2025
US-Taiwan deepened drone collab to protect defense supply chain from Chinese threats
As the US steps up efforts to secure its unmanned systems supply chain from Chinese influence, Taiwan is emerging as a key potential partner, leveraging its cybersecurity protocols...