At the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo, Japan’s NTT presents its corporate pavilion under the theme “Parallel Travel.” Through a narrative that transcends time and space, the company offers an experimental glimpse into the future of communication.

Samsung Electronics has reportedly secured the production order for Nintendo’s next-generation game console, the Switch 2’s core chip, marking a significant turning point for its foundry business. Nintendo is adopting Samsung’s 8nm process, replacing the long-standing manufacturing partnership with TSMC, which adds considerable strategic significance to Samsung’s global semiconductor foundry position.

In the first half of 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang officially announced that the company will no longer release Hopper architecture AI chips tailored for China. This announcement sent shockwaves through China’s tech industry, raising concerns about whether the country’s three major internet giants—Tencent, Baidu, and Alibaba, which have long relied on Nvidia GPUs as the core for large model training and AI development, are prepared to respond.

The automotive supply chain, battered by a challenging year in 2024, is finally showing signs of recovery, with component manufacturers leading the way into a period of renewed growth. While the automotive market cooled last year, the slowdown was not due to weak sales but rather to automakers’ deliberate inventory reductions—a trend expected to reverse in 2025.