As AI chip package sizes continue to grow, warpage issues in IC substrates have become more pronounced. Capacity constraints for low-CTE fiberglass cloth, a critical material used to address warpage, are forcing end customers, including Apple, Nvidia, Google, and AWS, into increasingly intense competition for supply, industry sources said.
Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC), a major Japanese commercial vehicle maker, has announced to establish a joint venture with Taiwan-based Foxconn.
Sony Group has decided to spin off its TV business and place it into a joint venture controlled by TCL, marking the company’s formal retreat from a segment that once defined Japan’s consumer-electronics prowess. The move underscores Sony’s strategic pivot toward higher-margin businesses—gaming, music, and film—while reflecting a broader, decades-long withdrawal by Japanese firms from mass-market home appliances.
Sony’s decision to form a TV joint venture with TCL is being read in South Korea less as a routine corporate reshuffle than as a structural challenge to the country’s long-held dominance in premium TVs and OLED panels. The deal has triggered unease not only about Sony’s future role in TVs, but about whether Samsung Electronics can continue to dictate the industry’s technological and competitive agenda.
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