Despite the Lunar New Year holiday dampening shipment volumes in February compared to January, Laster Tech, a prominent manufacturer of LED automotive lighting modules, reported a consolidated revenue of NT$540 million (approx. US$16.4 million) for February 2025. This figure reflects a robust year-over-year increase of 7.58%, marking an all-time high for the period. Factories on both sides of the Taiwan Strait maintained capacity utilization rates above 90%, buoyed by optimism surrounding China’s policies to stimulate new car sales.

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has announced that global semiconductor sales hit US$56.5 billion during the month of January 2025, an increase of 17.9% compared to the January 2024 total of US$47.9 billion and 1.7% less than the December 2024 total of US$57.5 billion.

Humanoid robots are on the brink of mass production and mainstream adoption, according to a recent Deutsche Bank report. Tesla and Figure AI are leading the charge in this transformative shift.