After achieving somewhat success from the 14 Production Linked Incentive (PLI) schemes, India is reportedly looking to extend the incentive policies to more sectors.
Along with fast development of metaverse applications, display technology plays an important role. miniLED has gained the upper hand in head-mounted VR devices while microLED is expected to dominate in AR glasses.
The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) raised the curtain on October 16 in Beijing, during which CCP’s Secretary General, Xi Jinping, made a 2-hour report, detailing guidance for coping with the struggles against “external forces” and how Xi envisions the strategies for China’s future technological development.
The latest US semiconductor tech restrictions against China will bring short-term throes to individual companies and industries, but the overall global semiconductor demand is believed to remain little affected following a market shakeup, according to Lu Chih-yuan, president of Taiwan-based memory maker Macronix International.
Participating in the Taiwan Innotech Expo 2022, the Japanese company NanoBridge Semiconductor (NBS) was one of the companies winning the honnorable mentions of TIE Award 2022.
American IDMs of RF components such as silicon-based filters are all proceeding with capacity expansions in the US, looking to seek government subsidies under the newly legislated Chips and Science Act, according to industry sources.
The decline in demand for large-size display driver IC (DDI) is slowing down along with the fact that demand and prices of LCD panels for TVs, notebooks and desktops are running close to the bottom, but a notable rebound in shipments is not expected to happen until the second half of 2023, according to industry sources.
Changs Ascending Enterprise (CAEC) in September 2022 began to ship LFPO (lithium ferrous phosphate oxide) batteries used in UPS (uninterruptible power supply) to a leading semiconductor-grade silicon wafer maker, according to the company.