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Eurostat, the EU's statistical agency, released the latest data on car trade. China now accounts for nearly 50% of Europe's EV imports. To put this in context,...

Korean exports are showing some signs of a recovery on the back of rising demand from China and increasing outbound shipments of semiconductors, the finance minister said Friday.

Taiwans semiconductor supply chain has "fine-tuned" production plans for a major artificial intelligence (AI) chip client in order to satisfy demand in time, according to industry sources.

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has announced its latest fan-out-chip-on-substrate-bridge (FOCoS-Bridge) technology innovation, which involved qualifying a large 70x78mm package containing two ASICs and eight HBM devices connected by eight silicon bridges.

Kioxia has begun operating two new R&D facilities in Japan - the Flagship Building at the Yokohama Technology Campus and the Shin-Koyasu Technology Front - bolstering the companys R&D capabilities in flash memory and solid-state drives (SSD), according to the company. In the future, other R&D functions in Kanagawa Prefecture will be relocated to these new R&D centers in order to increase research efficiency and advance technological innovation.

Broadcom said it also hopped on the bandwagon of the AI boom, predicting its AI revenue share would more than double in the coming years.

Japans Fujifilm Holdings has disclosed plans to invest NT$3.38 billion (US$110 million) to bolster production of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) slurry and lithography-related materials in Taiwan to better serve its semiconductor customers.

A $10 billion push to make semiconductors in India is on shaky ground. Its collapse will expose a major fault line in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign for greater economic self-reliance. Already, influential critics are asking if the much-touted success in becoming a hub for smartphone manufacturing is a hollow claim. Low-end assembly-line jobs, created with the help of

NXP Semiconductors will continue stepping up its investment in Taiwan, where a comprehensive semiconductor ecosystem cannot be ignored in the global market, according to Rafael Sotomayor, company executive VP and GM of Secure Connected Edge.

The European Union (EU) has been seeking deeper synergy with Taiwans semiconductor ecosystem as it pursues greater autonomy in the sector. As a part of this effort, the EU-Taiwan Semiconductor Seminar was held in Taipei on May 30, gathering representatives from leading European semiconductor clusters.