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Monday 2 June 2025

VinFast targets festive season EV launch in India, plans local production and hiring scale-up

Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast plans to launch its VF6 and VF7 models in India ahead of this year's festival season, as it sets its sights on becoming a key player in the...

Monday 2 June 2025

Renesas scraps SiC production plan amid rising Chinese challenge

Japanese chipmaker Renesas Electronics has scrapped its plan to mass-produce silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors, originally set to begin in early 2025 at its Takasaki plant...

Monday 2 June 2025

Mitac restructures around regional manufacturing clusters amid G2 tensions

In response to shifting geopolitical realities and escalating trade tensions, Mitac is overhauling its global production strategy, moving away from an end-to-end model toward a regional...

Monday 2 June 2025

Samsung nears wide-ranging deal with Perplexity for AI features

Samsung Electronics is nearing a wide-ranging deal to invest in Perplexity AI Inc. and put search technology from the artificial intelligence startup at the forefront of the South...

Monday 2 June 2025

Foxconn-Nvidia to build Taiwan's 100MW AI supercomputing center

Foxconn and Nvidia have announced a major collaboration to build one of Taiwan's most advanced AI infrastructure projects — a cutting-edge AI Factory supercomputing center....

Monday 2 June 2025

Wolfspeed's missteps fuel decline as China closes silicon carbide gap

Wolfspeed, once the dominant supplier of silicon carbide (SiC) materials, is now grappling with financial distress as its market lead continues to erode. Just five years ago, the...

Monday 2 June 2025

Ex-TI, Intel, AMD executives launch AI chip startups in India as government pushes chip design

A wave of senior executives from global semiconductor giants such as Intel, AMD, and Texas Instruments (TI) are striking out on their own to launch AI chip startups in India, seeking...

Monday 2 June 2025

China’s AI shift favors inference—and domestic players

At Computex 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang quipped, "The more you buy, the more you save" — a punchline that underscored the escalating arms race in AI infrastructure. According...

Monday 2 June 2025

Forcelead rides HUD wave as Taiwan firms keep grip on auto DDI market

Sitronix's automotive display driver IC (DDI) subsidiary, Forcelead, held an investor conference to provide updates on its current operations. Forcelead stated that the company has...

Monday 2 June 2025

Wah Hong targets micro LED and drone battery growth

At its recent annual shareholder meeting, optical film manufacturer Wah Hong announced the successful approval of key proposals, outlining its strategic direction for the future....

Sunday 1 June 2025

DeepSeek’s stealth upgrade inches closer to OpenAI in code race

Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has quietly released a minor update to its R1 model, uploading the latest version to open-source platform Hugging...

Friday 30 May 2025

Macnica’s Taiwan subsidiary, Anstek, appoints new chairman to guide growth

Macnica's Taiwan-based subsidiary, Anstek, held its 2025 annual shareholders meeting this week, swiftly followed by a board meeting in...

Friday 30 May 2025

Trump’s tariffs hold—for now, nations await Supreme Court decision

Taiwan pushes for special status as U.S. courts weigh fate of IEEPA-based duties

Friday 30 May 2025

Winbond ramps up in the DRAM shake-up, but trade fears loom

Amid growing uncertainty over global tariffs, Taiwanese memory chipmaker Winbond Electronics has seen a sudden surge in urgent orders during the second quarter of 2025, so much so...

Friday 30 May 2025

Foxconn's Young Liu wants to export more than iPhones

Young Liu, chairman of Foxconn, has officially taken office as the new chairman of the Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers'...

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