
Thailand Targets $80 Billion in Semiconductor Investment by 2050
Bangkok aims to generate $150 billion in annual chip revenue and add 230,000 jobs by shifting from assembly into wafer fabrication and design.
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Bangkok aims to generate $150 billion in annual chip revenue and add 230,000 jobs by shifting from assembly into wafer fabrication and design.

Surging global demand for artificial intelligence hardware drives upgrades for Vietnam and Malaysia while energy disruptions drag on the Philippines.

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix led early advances before institutional and retail profit-taking trimmed benchmark gains ahead of the two-day Chuseok market closure.

Taipower proposed a 12.83 percent increase to offset fuel price volatility, but regulators opted to seek a NT$71.1 billion government subsidy instead.

The Japanese manufacturer will test the new architecture, which promises to reduce traction inverter power losses by up to 15 per cent.

The ChatGPT maker expects cumulative spending on computing capacity to reach $856 billion by 2030 as it seeks fresh funding at a $1.2 trillion valuation.

The Chinese automaker is seeking outside capital and preparing power electronics subsidiary Sike Semiconductor for an initial public offering.

Overseas fund issuers are pitching directly to Seoul investors after tighter domestic trading rules and heavy semiconductor turnover sent billions into foreign funds.

Global smartphone shipments will fall 13.9 per cent this year to 1.08 billion units as memory components reach 60 per cent of handset production costs.

Developed with Kiwoom Securities (USA), the KCHP fund holds Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix with a modified market-cap weighting.

Taiwan and India lead the regional rebound as tech earnings jump 88 per cent, while Southeast Asian markets post mixed foreign flows.

Kuozhan Exhibition Services will host 60,000 buyers across 80,000 square meters to trade functional films and adhesives for tech manufacturing.

Second-quarter regional corporate earnings grew 102 per cent, led by strong results in Singapore, Taiwan and Indonesia.

Nvidia Corp invested US$4 billion in the technology in March as the island uses its 90 percent advanced semiconductor manufacturing lead.

The Beijing tech group is committing 50 billion yuan to in-house silicon as it prices its new foldable device and Skynomad electric SUVs below rival flagships.

Individual investors placed 5.98 trillion yuan in orders for the AI chipmaker as it raised 6.12 billion yuan on Shanghai’s STAR Market.
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