Monthly Archives: September 2024

[News] Two Major Chinese Firms Launch Billion-Dollar Advanced Packaging Projects: How Are Global Giants Progressing?

Posted on 2024-09-26 by TrendForce

Driven by the massive demand for AI chips, advanced packaging is in short supply, and the development of three major advanced packaging technologies CoWoS, SoIC, and FOPLP is booming. In addition, two major billion-dollar projects in China have made recent …

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[News] Foxconn Mulls to Invest USD 1 Billion in India to Assemble Smartphone Display Modules for Apple

Posted on 2024-09-26 by TrendForce

Earlier in August, Foxconn announced the plan to expand its overseas investments, with the total amounting to roughly USD 840 million. Now the expansion plan seems to be more materialized, as the Taiwanese tech giant is reportedly evaluating an investment …

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[News] South Korea Said to Heavily Rely on China for Critical Semiconductor Materials such as Silicon

Posted on 2024-09-25 by TrendForce

While South Korean memory giants Samsung Electronics and SK hynix saw their sales in China double in the first half of this year, the country as a whole seems to heavily rely on China for essential semiconductor raw materials as …

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[Insights] Memory Spot Price Update: NAND Contract Prices for Q3 Shows Signs of Loosening, Likely to Persist until Q4

Posted on 2024-09-25 by TrendForce

According to TrendForce’s latest memory spot price trend report, regarding DRAM, reball DDR4 and DDR5 chips stripped from modules continue to flow into the spot market, adversely affecting the market outlook. As for NAND flash, contract prices for 3Q24 have …

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[News] RBA Holds Monetary Policy Steady, Interest Rates Remain at 12-Year High

Posted on 2024-09-25 by TrendForce

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) announced on September 24 that the cash rate target remain at 4.35%, marking the seventh consecutive month at this level, which is also the highest in nearly 12 years. In the meeting statement, the …

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