Southeast Asia’s first industrial heat battery starts operation
The unit unveiled is a 33 MWh Rondo Heat Battery, the first built on Rondo’s new modular platform. The heat battery is now delivering 2.3 MWth of continuous steam, charged from the grid and a nearby floating solar farm.
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Inside Oppo’s factory: How a smartphone is made
You've seen him build his own iPhone using components from the electronics market in Shenzhen, China. Now, tech YouTuber Scotty from Strange Parts, brings us inside Oppo’s main smartphone manufacturing facility in Dongguan, near Shenzhen.
When electronics infiltrates art
At Art Basel Miami 2025, the main stars were not paintings, sculptures or light installations. Instead, a group of robot dogs confidently patrolled the exhibition floor, moving like the household pets of modern billionaires. This would hardly be unusual, if not for one detail: each dog wore a hyper-realistic silicone mask depicting the most recognizable figures in the tech world. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman suddenly appeared in canine form.
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Webinar: From 5G to Quantum and AI: The Evolution of RF Interconnect Solutions
RF interconnects sit at the heart of every high-frequency system, enabling reliable performance across industries from telecom and defense to medical and industrial applications. As technologies evolve — driven by 5G expansion, IoT, AI, and even emerging fields like quantum computing — engineers face new challenges: tighter frequency requirements, miniaturization, extreme environmental demands, and the pressure to accelerate development cycles while managing supply chain risks.
Merck inaugurates €500M semiconductor materials plant in Taiwan
Covering 150,000 square meters, the Kaohsiung site is the company’s largest semiconductor materials campus worldwide. It focuses on thin films, formulation materials and specialty gases for high-precision layering, etching and patterning processes in advanced semiconductor production.
A blast from the past – the Commodore is back
The legendary computing brand Commodore has returned – with an official new hardware launch marking its first fully new computer in over 30 years. The revived company recently unveiled the Commodore 64 Ultimate, a retro-inspired yet modernised remake of the iconic 1982 home computer Commodore 64.
Fujifilm announces completion of new building for semiconductor materials
This investment strengthens the company’s capabilities for performance and quality evaluation of development products, accelerating the development of new materials for advanced and next-generation semiconductors and ensuring a stable supply of high-quality products.
Global semiconductor market tops $200 billion in Q3 2025
The global semiconductor market reached USD 208 billion in the third quarter of 2025, marking the first time the quarterly market has surpassed USD 200 billion, according to WSTS data cited by Semiconductor Intelligence.
IMI sells stake in VIA Optronics in strategic divestment
Filipino EMS provider Integrated Micro-Electronics (IMI) is selling its 50.32% stake in VIA Optronics Holding AG to Kronen 3140 GmbH, which will be renamed V-PTR Beteiligungs GmbH. The acquiring entity is owned by members of VIA’s management and advisory team.
Incap to acquire Germany-based Lacon Group
Finish EMS provider Incap Corporation has agreed to acquire Lacon Group, a German EMS and ODM company, in a transaction valued at a minimum of EUR 50 million.
Indian startup Agnikul Cosmos raises $17 million
The Chennai-based company will use the funding to scale production units of aerospace and rocket components and boost its stage-recovery programme. Some of the funds will be used to develop Agnikul’s upcoming integrated space campus in Tamil Nadu.
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