Nippon Steel Corporation, one of the world's largest steel makers, said on December 18 that it would buy the United States Steel Corporation for about US$14.9 billion. The purchase...
Thanks to inward FDI from major chipmakers, particularly TSMC, Japan-based chipmaking equipment providers are expected to see surging capital and R&D expenditures in the current...
Japan's chipmaking startup, Rapidus, is setting ambitious goals to mass-produce 2nm chips by 2027, aiming to provide the world's fastest chip manufacturing services, targeting clients...
Europe sees Asia-made EVs as more of a burden on the environment because of the long transport distance. According to the French government's announcement on December 14, three popular...
TSMC's subsidiary in Japan, Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (JASM), has indicated that it aims to procure 60% of equipment and materials from Japanese suppliers for its...
Sales data from Japan's vehicle associations showed EV sales volume is decreasing in the country and continues to account for a low market share in new car sales. The situation in...
As the world's most important robot technology exhibition, the 2023 Tokyo International Robot Exhibition (iREX) is considered the largest in history. With the current global surge...
Nvidia made headlines again with CEO Jensen Huang's Asia tour to Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam over the past week. Yet it takes a grander perspective to see the strategy...
Panasonic Group's battery unit took a step forward to localize production in the US. Panasonic Energy announced on December 12 that it will purchase nano-composite silicon anode material...
In a forum recently hosted by the Cloud Computing and IoT Association in Taiwan (CIAT), Peter Wu, ASUS Cloud and Taiwan Web Service Corporation (TWSC) President, who is a supervisory...
The performance of the consumer electronics market, driven by smartphones, has been poor, dragging down the recovery speed of the semiconductor industry, which may be delayed until...
Japan is earmarking ¥129.4 billion ($902 million) to Rohm Co. and Toshiba Corp.'s joint push to boost production of power semiconductors, seen as key to lifting energy efficiency...
Quantum technology, initially used in semiconductor R&D, is now making significant strides in optimizing combinatorial processes. Japan's semiconductor player Rohm is beginning...
Despite recent skepticism about TSMC's plan to set up a factory in Germany in light of the country's budget crisis, the firm has stated that it has not aborted this project. Challenges...
Japan-based Fuso Chemical, the global leader in semiconductor CMP slurries with a 90% market share, is set to invest JPY 50 billion (US$350 million) in a significant production expansion...
