Taiwan continues to dominate the global outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) market, but China is catching up quickly. Driven by state-backed chip self-reliance efforts, China’s OSAT industry has expanded at pace, steadily closing the market share gap across the Taiwan Strait. A recent industry-led initiative gaining traction in China is also pushing back against cutthroat pricing that has undermined profitability.

Samsung Electronics is preparing a strategic challenge to SK Hynix’s dominance in sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory with an ambitious technological leap that could reshape the HBM4 supply landscape.

Samsung has reported strong pre-orders in Taiwan for its latest Galaxy Z7 series, with the vendor assessing the feasibility of bringing its trifold devices to the Taiwanese market when they are released at the end of the year at the earliest.

Bosch plans to restructure its Reutlingen manufacturing site in Germany, with up to 1,100 jobs set to be cut as part of a broader cost-cutting initiative. The company cited shifting market dynamics and the need to stay competitive.