Before commenting on the intrinsic strength of China’s semiconductor industry, we must have an elaborate study on China’s semiconductor market and industrial structure. According to Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), the total output of the global semiconductor market in 2021 was US$555.9 billion, up 26.2% from 2022, of which US$192.5 billion was generated from the Chinese market, accounting for 34.6% of the global total. However, this figure refers to the sales to local Chinese companies plus sales into China’s domestic market, excluding the demand brought by foreign companies assembling diver products such as notebooks and mobile phones in China.

Taiwan-based Innodisk, dedicated to supplying industrial embedded flash and DRAM storage solutions, has announced its new business focus on edge AI computing technologies and applications, seeking to help accelerate the materialization of industries going intelligent.

Polarizer makers BenQ Materials and Cheng Mei Materials Technology (CMMT) have obtained orders with shipments scheduled until the end of June 2022, according to the companies.

South Korea-based battery manufacturers reported strong on-year revenue growths in the first quarter of 2022, according to local news outlets.