Plug-in electrical vehicles (PHEV) are expected to regain significant growth momentum for sales in the US market, as American consumers buying such vehicles will enjoy equal investment tax credit (ITC) for battery EVs (BEV) under the newly legislated Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), according to industry sources.

Topco Scientific, which mainly distributes photoresist, silicon wafers and CMP slurry products to foundry houses, is looking to actively develop its third-generation semiconductor business and deepen its presence in the segment of advanced packaging materials.

The fresh US export restrictions on chips to China and Russia seem to have pushed the decoupling of the semiconductor technology a step further. DIGITIMES Asia had an exclusive interview with Abishur Prakash, co-founder and geopolitical futurist at the Center for Innovating the Future (CIF), on how the fragmented and divided vertical camps of globalization will be a new status quo for geopolitics due to US-China competition.