China has offered its latest formal response to the semiconductor supply crisis surrounding Dutch chipmaker Nexperia, signalling limited export exemptions while urging dialogue to stabilise global supply chains.
As China accelerates its ambitions in low-Earth-orbit (LEO) communications, the country's push for homegrown satellite technology is sparking optimism across its printed circuit board (PCB) industry. Many see the dawn of what Beijing calls an "integrated sky-and-space economy," with potentially enormous commercial returns.
As Moore's Law nears its physical and commercial limits, advanced packaging has become the new battleground defining the evolution of IC substrate technology and the global PCB landscape. Henry Utsunomiya, President of Fujitsu Interconnect Technologies (FICT) under Fujitsu Limited, noted that with heterogeneous integration now the dominant approach, the industry is undergoing a crucial shift from organic to inorganic substrates.
