World Region – Asia

The China solar panel industry which commands 80% of global solar panel production capacity, is taking a bath, reports the Nikkei.  Nine of the top producers are Chinese and seven of those made a combined loss of $3.7 billion last year as investment outpaced demand. Five of the seven made a loss while market leader Jinko Solar saw profits fall ...

TSMC’s 2nm yields are now said to be well above the 60-70% reported by TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo in December and headed for mass production this year. It is reported that TSMC could be producing 50,000 2nm wpm by the end of the year. TSMC’s 2nm fabs at Baoshan and Kaohsiung can run 80k wpm at full capacity ...

Japan is investing $660 million in ASSB (All-Solid-State-Battery) R&D with the target of commercialising the technology by around 2030. Japan possesses the most ASSB-related patents in the world and has been steadily establishing a supply chain over recent years with the target of achieving mass production, reports TrendForce. Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) announced the “Battery Supply ...

China has had a bad year for investment in chip companies according to the China market research and consultancy company J W Insights. In the first 11 months of 2024,  the number of new investment deals fell 35.9% y-o-y to 677 while total funding fell 32.4%. ChangXin Memory, the DRAM manufacturer, had the single largest investment at $1.48 billion and ...

Powerchip Semiconductor (PSMC), the Taiwanese foundry, has ditched a plan to build a fab in Japan in favour of building one in India. Last year, Powerchip entered a partnership with Japanese finance company SBI Holdings to start construction this year on a 40k wpm fab in Sendai, Japan starting on 40nm technology and moving on to 28nm with volume production ...

In the first eight months of this year, China’s IC exports were worth $104 billion – an increase of 24.8% y-o-y, according to customs data reported by the People’s Daily. By contrast, automotive exports were $77 billion during the same period.. The report says that China’s IC export value has grown more than 1.5 times over the past decade.  In ...

A new report is highlighting opportunities for UK quantum computing companies in Japan. The country is investing to accelerate the development of commercial applications in fields such as chemistry, financial services and logistics optimisation, highlights Intralink, a business development consultancy. The report has been prepared by as part of the UK-APAC Tech Growth Programme, which the company is delivering for ...

Researchers at the Tokyo University of Science have designed a scalable, fully-coupled annealing processor with 4096 spins, with parallelized capabilities for accelerated problem-solving Annealing processors are designed specifically for addressing combinatorial optimisation problems, where the task is to find the best solution from a finite set of possibilities. With CMOS  ICs it is necessary for the components of annealing processors ...

Four UK technology companies – including a space situational awareness specialist – have been selected to receive support from the UK-APAC Tech Growth Programme, to help accelerate plans for expansion in Japan. Aimed at UK technology startups headquartered in the UK, the programme is a government-backed initiative run by Intralink, a business development consultancy. The latest four companies to be ...

Vietnam could receive money from the US Chips and Science Act, according to  Jose Fernandez, U.S. undersecretary of state for economic growth, energy and the environment. Under the Act, $500 million has been earmarked for  improving semiconductor training, cybersecurity and business climates globally, said Fernandez on a trip to the country reported by the Nikkei. Seven countries have been tagged ...