Industrial PC maker Nexcom International expects demand for automation and smart manufacturing to remain strong in 2023 despite macro headwinds challenging many industry sectors.

For the first time in his 91 years of life, US billionaire Warren Buffett has recently invested in a semiconductor stock. It is not any of the American semiconductor companies, but TSMC, a company on which many may want to reduce their reliance because Taiwan is the “most dangerous place on earth.” What did Buffett see in TSMC to make this investment decision?

Kaimei Electronic expects aluminum electrolytic capacitors, thick-film and metal alloy current-sensing resistors used in electric vehicle (EV) power charging piles to become the main source of business growth in fourth-quarter 2022 and 2023, according to company spokesman Andrew Lee.

Wallace Kou, CEO of NAND Flash controller chip maker Silicon Motion (SMI), believes that the US’s semiconductor sanctions on China won’t budge at all for the next 5 years, regardless of which party takes office. In addition, Korean memory makers will be the largest beneficiary in this wave of US sanctions.