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Friday 31 October 2025

Europe braces, Honda halts output in widening Nexperia crisis

A deepening dispute over Nexperia, the China-backed semiconductor maker based in the Netherlands, has triggered a fresh global supply...

Friday 31 October 2025

Commentary: OpenAI and Google vie for supremacy in AI, confronting distinct strategic challenges

OpenAI and Google are engaged in intense competition to establish dominance in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry, focusing on developing the most popular and profitable general-purpose...

Friday 31 October 2025

Google, Meta, and Microsoft double down on AI infrastructure despite mixed earnings

Cloud service providers, including Google, Meta, and Microsoft, this week reported mixed quarterly earnings, yet one theme united all...

Friday 31 October 2025

ASE's advanced packaging and testing revenue to rise by US$1 billion in 2026

Leading semiconductor packaging and testing company ASE expects that fourth quarter revenue in NTD will grow 1-2% quarter-over-quarter, while semiconductor assembly and test materials...

Friday 31 October 2025

Nvidia reportedly considers up to US$1 billion investment in AI startup Poolside

Nvidia is reportedly preparing to invest up to US$1 billion in AI startup Poolside, potentially increasing the company's valuation to as high as US$12 billion. Poolside is currently...

Friday 31 October 2025

Onsemi introduces vertical GaN semiconductors for AI and electrification applications

Onsemi has unveiled vertical gallium nitride (vGaN) power semiconductors built on GaN-on-GaN technology, targeting applications in AI data centers, electric vehicles (EVs), renewable...

Friday 31 October 2025

BYD profit plunges 33% as China EV price war squeezes margins

BYD reported a sharp 33% decline in third-quarter profit, highlighting the growing toll of China's intensifying electric-vehicle price...

Friday 31 October 2025

STM cuts 2025 capex on sluggish demand recovery for automotive and industrial chips

STMicroelectronics (STM) has projected fourth-quarter 2025 revenue below market expectations and trimmed its capital expenditure plan for the year, signaling a weaker-than-anticipated...

Friday 31 October 2025

Foxconn deepens AI collaboration with Nvidia, commits over US$1 billion to AI infrastructure

As the global wave of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) surges, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has positioned the company's AI strategy as an industry benchmark, with the annual...

Friday 31 October 2025

SK Hynix dominates DRAM market in 3Q25 for third consecutive quarter

SK Hynix has taken the top spot of the global DRAM market for the third quarter of 2025 with a 35% market share, with Samsung just behind at 34%. This marks SK Hynix's third consecutive...

Friday 31 October 2025

AI demand fuels surge in data center capex by Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta

Cloud service providers are rapidly expanding AI capabilities, leading to increased capex and major investment in data center infrastructure. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed...

Friday 31 October 2025

Acoustoelectric maker Primax maps global expansion with AI sensor tech

Acoustoelectric component maker Primax Electronics has unveiled its operational strategy in the ongoing AI trend at its latest earnings call on October 28, 2025, with chairman Yung-chung...

Friday 31 October 2025

Taiwan advances vehicle safety standards with upgraded crash testing program

Seeking to improve vehicle safety and reduce traffic fatalities, Taiwan's Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) is accelerating efforts to strengthen its Taiwan New...

Friday 31 October 2025

UMC and Samsung present advanced packaging trends at APDC 2025

STATS ChipPAC held the Advanced Packaging Developer Conference 2025 (APDC 2025) at Resorts World Sentosa Convention Center in Singapore to explore the future of semiconductor packaging...

Friday 31 October 2025

Commentary: Trump-Xi meeting leaves core tech conflicts unresolved

After months of speculation, US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met on October 30, 2025, at South Korea's Gimhae Air Base in Busan. As many analysts predicted,...

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