VeriSilicon Holdings Co. launched the 15th Songshan Lake China IC Innovation Summit Forum on May 13, 2025, in Dongguan’s Songshan Lake district. This year’s forum highlights 10 domestically developed chips tailored for embodied intelligent robots, spanning machine vision, voice AI, and spatial computing. The event brings together key stakeholders across the semiconductor supply chain to examine emerging technologies and industry directions.

In the era of globalization, R&D as well as manufacturing can access capital, land, utilities, and talent locally. However, the deglobalization trend sparked by US President Donald Trump has forced some companies to bring their capital directly to target markets to find sites and recruit personnel, maintaining customer commitments amid new tariff storms. The question arises: will the industrial hollowing out and talent outflow caused by Taiwanese firms moving westward to China years ago repeat itself during the current eastward shift toward the US?

Foxconn Precision Industry held its first quarter 2025 earnings call on May 14. Chairman Young Liu stated that due to US tariff policies and recent exchange rate fluctuations impacting the supply chain, the overall outlook for 2025 has become more cautious.