According to South Korean media Newsway, Samsung’s Device Solutions (DS) division plans to phase out LED lighting production at its Giheung campus by 2030. Most employees are expected to be transferred to the company’s semiconductor facilities in Cheonan or Onyang, South Chungcheong Province.

France is ramping up efforts to secure a larger share of the global semiconductor market, signaling deeper collaboration with Taiwan, home to some of the world’s leading chip manufacturers. Thomas Courbe, Director General for Enterprise at the French Ministry of the Economy, Finance, and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty, outlined France’s ambitious plans to strengthen ties and boost domestic semiconductor production.

In the AI computing era, nearly all leading developers of large language models (LLMs) are racing to stockpile Nvidia GPUs. According to TechInsights, Nvidia dominated the data center GPU market in 2023, commanding a 98% share and leaving a mere 2% for its competitors.