With industrial-control application demand warming up and DDR4 market prices rising, industrial-control memory vendor Innodisk’s operations in 2025 have improved. Revenue has grown for six consecutive months, and the first-half revenue reached a record high. With the third quarter revenue and gross margin maintaining positive growth, the second half of 2025 has a chance to outperform the first half, and full-year 2025 could break a new high.

Samsung Electronics is reportedly pushing back the mass production of its next-gen high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips to 2026, signaling a more cautious rollout amid ongoing DRAM redesign efforts.

Japan has pledged to invest US$550 billion in the US economy under a sweeping trade deal unveiled July 22, 2025, aiming to avert steep auto tariffs. The pact expands US access to Japan’s markets across autos, agriculture, and defense while deepening bilateral ties in semiconductors, energy, and critical infrastructure, according to Nikkei, Reuters, and Yomiuri.