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Monday 25 December 2023
Legacy chip capacity expansion in China poses threat to Taiwan-based IC design houses
The US is fortifying itself against a potential dumping of Chinese-made legacy chips, a risk foreseen by Taiwan-based IC design houses amid a decoupling of the global chip market.
Monday 25 December 2023
Weekly news roundup: China no longer the sole manufacturing hub for smartphones and other top stories
These are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from December 18-22:
Friday 22 December 2023
Tesla acquires land for Shanghai megapack battery factory
Tesla Inc. has acquired land to build its Shanghai Megapack factory that will have capacity to produce 10,000 battery packs a year, according to a company representative, paving the...
Friday 22 December 2023
Intel unveils Gaudi 3 but challenge remains for exporting to China
Before the year-end holidays of 2023, Intel held an "AI Everywhere" conference to launch its Meteor Lake and Gen5 Xeon CPU as Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger copied Steve Jobs's "One More...
Friday 22 December 2023
Chip industry navigating growth and challenges in the evolving industry landscape
The importance of the semiconductor industry to Taiwan is self-evident. Among them, TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) holds a high global market share in advanced...
Friday 22 December 2023
Taiwanese manufacturers scale back investments amid projected China economic downturn
In the face of the US-China trade and tech wars, sluggish domestic demand, falling exports, and the impact of a shrinking population, global organizations have slashed China's 2024...
Friday 22 December 2023
China imposes export control on rare earth processing technologies
Shortly after the US government tightened its restrictions on Chinese entities, China appeared to retaliate by limiting the export of technology related to rare earth elements. This...
Friday 22 December 2023
Taiwan compound semiconductor firms unfazed by Luxshare buyout of Qorvo backend fabs in China
Luxshare Precision Industry's impending acquisition of Qorvo's backend fabs in China is unlikely to have a significant impact on Taiwan-based compound semiconductor firms, according...
Friday 22 December 2023
More Chinese device assemblers, IC design firms enter backend
Many Chinese device assemblers and IC design houses are investing in the backend sector or building their own packaging and testing lines, indicating a trend toward vertical integration,...
Thursday 21 December 2023
The implication of Foxconn subsidiaries added to Unverified List
The US Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced an update of the Unverified List on December 19, and two Foxconn subsidiaries were shockingly among the 13 companies added to...
Thursday 21 December 2023
China's glory as the sole smartphone manufacturing hub is no more
The migration of smartphone supply chains is making a dent in China's production outputs, according to Chinese media Yicai. The number of smartphones manufactured in China decreased...
Thursday 21 December 2023
China customers complain about having to wait 1 year to get Nvidia GPUs
Under the US export restriction of AI chips, Large Language Model (LLM) computing service providers in China noted that they must wait over 1 year to lay their hands on Nvidia's AI...
Thursday 21 December 2023
Japanese carmakers likely to grow Chinese market share in 2H24
Hiroca Holdings, a Taiwan-headquartered automotive interior parts supplier, used to supply a large portion of its products made in China to Japanese carmakers. With the automotive...
Thursday 21 December 2023
Automotive DDI competition intensifies
Alongside the intensifying competition for electric vehicles (EV) in China, the market for automotive display driver ICs (DDI) is becoming more competitive, according to industry...
Thursday 21 December 2023
JIC postpones delisting of JSR, awaits approval from China
The state-backed Japan Investment Corporation (JIC) pushed back the expected start of its tender offer for JSR from December 2023 to late February 2024 due to an extended review period...