Despite speculation indicating Samsung Electronics has suffered from excessive smartphone inventories, the Korean vendor has yet to cut its foldable smartphone shipment goal for this year, according to industry sources.

The Indian government is formulating a single standard specification for swappable EV batteries, and companies have expressed their fears about a battery monopoly that kills innovation.

Advanced packaging technology has become a powerful tool for TSMC to grab orders for advanced chips. Now Samsung Electronics has also announced that it will strengthen its back-end packaging and testing technology. As for the top 10 makers in the packaging and testing industry, their revenue in 2021 reached US$33.7 billion. And the top-10 accounted for about 90% of the global packaging and testing industry, so the size of this market was about US$37 billion. Including back-end production of TSMC, Samsung, Intel and even Rohm, the output value of the whole industry wuld be about US$39.7 billion.