Pentagon’s brief blacklist reversal could ease US OEM access to Chinese memory suppliers, complicating Trump-Xi summit dynamicsWith President Donald Trump set to visit China in just over a month, the US Department of War’s recent listing and rapid retraction of several Chinese firms has intensified tensions and exposed internal contradictions within the administration.

Samsung Electronics is reportedly accelerating preparations for next-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM), moving to establish a hybrid bonding production line at its Cheonan campus in South Korea to support the higher stacking transition to high-bandwidth memory 4 (HBM4) and next-generation high-bandwidth memory 5 (HBM5).

Taiwan’s small and medium enterprises — the backbone of the island’s economy — are getting a major government push into the AI era. On February 12, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) unveiled a four-part plan to help SMEs adopt AI and navigate a world reshaped by labor shortages and supply chain upheaval. The roadmap goes beyond broad ambition, laying out concrete measures industry by industry, with a clear goal: break through the bottlenecks that have long stalled transformation.