China-based Huaqin Technology has extended ODM production from smartphones, notebooks, and tablets to smart wearable devices, servers, automotive electronics, and A+IoT devices and will enhance development of technology and products for the latter, according to the company.

Taiwan-based Innodisk, dedicated to supplying flash and DRAM storage solutions for industrial applications, is expected to see its shipments to IPC clients ramp up steadily in the second half of the year along with the easing of component shortages, but it’s hard for the company’s sales to grow annually this year due to high comparison basis for the second half of 2021, according to industry sources.

Competition between Qualcomm and MediaTek in the 3nm smartphone application processor (AP) market is poised to take place in the second half of 2023, according to market sources. Both reportedly will contract TSMC to manufacture their 3nm smartphone APs.

Electric terminal maker KS Terminals (KST) will expand production capacity for electric vehicle (EV)-use power charging connectors and inlets through setting up a factory in Taiwan or China, with planning to be finished in second-quarter 2023, according to the company.