Dennis Dahlgren

The gap between how long electronics manufacturers need their products to last and how long component makers are willing to keep producing them is widening. For industries like aerospace, medical and defence – where a product can be in service for twenty or thirty years – the shift toward consumer-driven semiconductor lifecycles is creating a slow-moving crisis that is only now getting the attention it deserves.

A Chinese court has ordered the freezing of equity interests in five Nexperia subsidiaries in China, valued at approximately CNY 2.14 billion, approximately EUR 274 million. The order was obtained by Wingtech, Nexperia's Chinese parent, in connection with an ongoing lawsuit seeking CNY 8 billion in damages.

Labour unions representing nearly two-thirds of Micron Technology's Taiwan workforce are threatening to strike unless the US memory chip maker changes how it distributes profits to employees, Reuters reports. More than 80% of union members who took part in an internal survey in August backed strike action.

There is a gap between ambition and action on circularity in the Swedish electronics industry, according to Elisabet Österlund, Secretary General of Svensk Elektronik. For circularity to become more than a sustainability talking point, stronger incentives are needed from both industry and government.

Kitron has broken ground on its new production site in Gålnäs, Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. Construction is starting earlier than planned. In the spring, the company expected construction to begin in early 2027.

Micron's revenue reached USD 54.2 billion in the fourth quarter of its 2026 fiscal year, almost five times the level of the same quarter last year. Rising memory prices pushed the gross margin to 87%, and the company expects supply to become even tighter in 2027 and 2028.

An arson attack in the summer of 2024 destroyed much of CSI Sud-Ouest's PCB factory in Toulouse. Two years on, the Cimulec subsidiary has rebuilt and inaugurated the plant, and none of its 57 employees has been made redundant.

A former 200mm memory fab in Eugene, Oregon, originally built by SK hynix, has been put up for sale. The site has about 170,000 square feet (15,800 square metres) of potential cleanroom production space, and much of the infrastructure is still in place.

Toshiba plans to double its production capacity for hard disk drives (HDDs) used in AI data centres within fiscal 2027, compared with 2025 levels, Nikkei reports. The company will invest around JPY 60 billion (about USD 380 million) in expanding its plant in the Philippines.

Danish SMT equipment supplier CORE-emt is building a new headquarters in Aars, Denmark, and expects to move in in March 2027. The company says growing demand from EMS and OEM customers in Scandinavia and the Baltic region has left the company short of space.