While the European Union and the US have imposed many restrictions on China-made EVs, the measures seem also to benefit Chinese carmakers. European and US consumers have become more aware of Chinese EVs, which may affect the future market dynamic.

With sluggish iPhone sales and intense competition from Chinese panel manufacturers, Samsung Display (SDC)’s operating profit in the first quarter of 2024 saw a 56% year-on-year decrease. How SDC will respond to this has received a lot of attention.

The potential of advanced packaging technology to upgrade chip performance has attracted many Japanese equipment and material suppliers to allocate their resources in this highly specialized field to gain their entry into the high-margin market of advanced chips and Chiplet.

PSMC, a Taiwan-based semiconductor foundry service provider, inaugurates its first 12-inch wafer fab in Miaoli, Taiwan on May 2. At the ceremony venue, PSMC chairman Frank Huang said the new fab has received interposer orders from a big American customer and will be a supplier to applications such as TSMC’s Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate (CoWoS).