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Monday 27 November 2023
Surging popularity of magnesium-aluminum alloys in the lightweighting trend for EVs
The electric vehicle market is on a continual growth trajectory, facing challenges such as the structural weight of electric vehicles, notably due to components like battery modules,...
Monday 27 November 2023
Automotive electronics become key to survival for China's self-designed chips
Moore Silicon, a chip subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned electronics company TCL, is the latest dissolved in-house IC design team of a technology conglomerate in China after Oppo's...
Monday 27 November 2023
OSE sees 2024 growth, thanks to NAND and AI servers
Orient Semiconductor Electronics, Ltd.(OSE), a matured logic IC and NAND Flash memory semiconductor packaging & testing service and electronic manufacturing service (EMS) provider,...
Monday 27 November 2023
Challenges remain as system integrators self-developed chips against established IC design houses
As the AI era arrives, cloud service providers (CSP) have increasingly recognized the importance of high-performance computing (HPC) chips, and system integrators, hardware manufacturers,...
Monday 27 November 2023
Japanese carmakers cut prices in Thailand to compete with Chinese rivals
China-based EV makers are expanding aggressively overseas, triggering a "war" between EVs and internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles in Thailand. The situation has pressured Japanese...
Monday 27 November 2023
Infortrend operations remain stable due to AI-driven data storage increase
AI has driven demand for big data analysis and has jointly boosted the momentum of the storage industry. Storage provider Infortrend pointed out that in previous years, the storage...
Friday 24 November 2023
Edison Opto: automotive LED shipment recovery clears up as strikes conclude
With the conclusion of the strikes at US automotive plants, the shipment visibility of LED manufacturers in the fourth quarter of 2023 regarding automotive products has gradually...
Friday 24 November 2023
Nissan pledges GBP 2 billion to expand UK electric-vehicle hub
Nissan Motor Co. will significantly ramp up electric-vehicle production in the UK with a £2 billion ($2.5 billion) investment at its Sunderland site in a boon to the country's...
Friday 24 November 2023
Huawei and Xiaomi are paving the way for an Apple EV: Tim Culpan
Two of China's biggest smartphone makers have joined BYD Co. and Tesla Inc. in the increasingly crowded Chinese electric-vehicle market. Their success or failure could serve as a...
Friday 24 November 2023
What does GaN's future lie ahead with ongoing patent dispute between EPC, Innoscience?
Gallium nitride (GaN) has not been able to gain much traction compared to silicon carbide (SiC), another power semiconductor material. In May, US-based Efficient Power Conversion...
Friday 24 November 2023
Autonomy still the main tone in the latest China International Semiconductor Summit
At the recently concluded 2023 China International Semiconductor Summit attended by more than 2,000 industry professionals, both Wei Shaojun, Director of the Institute of Microelectronics...
Friday 24 November 2023
Compeq sees customer inquiry for its PCB site in Thailand, sales recovering from doldrum
Compeq Manufacturing, a major high-density interconnect (HDI) printed circuit board (PCB) producer, said its third-quarter 2023 sales revenues and earnings are showing early signs...
Friday 24 November 2023
WinWay says outlook for 2H24 is very optimistic
IC testing interface specialist WinWay Technology is full steam ahead with new products, holding a "very optimistic" outlook for the second half of 2024, according to the Taiwan-based...
Friday 24 November 2023
Gotion, Inobat to build battery plant in Slovakia
Europe will see another battery plant come online in 2026. China-based battery maker Gotion High-tech and Slovak startup InoBat plans to build a battery factory in Slovakia. The facility...
Friday 24 November 2023
Foxconn set to benefit from Nvidia's new venture into AI factories
In addition to its strong financial results, Nvidia is also actively exploring new business models such as AI factories or AI manufacturing to enhance profitability further. Once...