Taiwan-based Ventec Electronics, dedicated to specialty copper-clad laminates (CCL) and thermal materials, expects sales of its high-performance thermal substrate materials for car headlights and other automotive applications to drive the company’s overall revenue growth in the second half of this year.

VicOne, an automotive cybersecurity solution provider wholly owned by Trend Micro, has partnered with Delta Electronics to secure EV charging infrastructure, which will help the latter’s customers and EV charging customers to strengthen security efforts and comply with international standards, according to the companies.

China’s fast-growing multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) market will see the country account for 43.5% of global MLCC demand by 2025, making it the largest, according to the Chinese market research firm JW Insights. The research estimates that more than 250 billion MLCCs will be used in China, a rise from the 150 billion in 2021. Notably, in China the number of MLCCs deployed in new-energy vehicles will surpass that of internal-combustion vehicles this year, reaching 90 billion units. By 2025, according to the same estimation, the number of MLCCs for new-energy vehicles will reach 330 billion worldwide, surpassing the number for traditional autos.