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Friday 24 November 2023
SMIC profit plunges despite Huawei orders: survival heavily dependent on subsidies and external sources
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) has unveiled its latest quarterly financial report, revealing a sharp decline in profits due to rapid expansion and sacrificing...
Tuesday 31 October 2023
Mobile phone market to resume growth in 2024
Global mobile phone sales are expected to fall below 1.2 billion units in 2023, a new low in ten years, due to gloomy consumer sentiment following the pandemic, Chinese market saturation,...
Wednesday 13 September 2023
China +1: Four regions emerge as new manufacturing hubs
As the trade and tech conflicts between China and the US escalate, there's a burgeoning trend among international businesses to hedge their bets despite the large local market in...
Wednesday 1 March 2023
With Intel's IDM 2.0 facing both internal and external challenges, how can Gelsinger balance the brakes and throttles?
As expected, Intel is going to have a rough 2023 and it could be harsher than anyone previously expected. The mass production delay of the 7nm process (now renamed the Intel 4 process),...
Friday 10 February 2023
SMIC expects 10-12% revenue drop in 1Q23
China-based pure-play foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) expects to post a revenue decline of 10-12% sequentially in the first quarter of 2023, with gross margin...
Monday 18 April 2022
Samsung 3nm GAA process yield still far behind target
Samsung Electronics' 3nm GAA process yield rates reportedly are still far behind the chip vendor's target.
Wednesday 1 December 2021
Samsung intros new logic solutions to power next-gen automobiles
Samsung Electronics has introduced three automotive chip solutions, the Exynos Auto T5123 for 5G connectivity, the Exynos Auto V7 for comprehensive in-vehicle infotainment systems...
Tuesday 5 October 2021
Memory demand for game consoles soon to pick up
Memory chip demand for game consoles will be picking up later in the second half of 2021, as Nintendo is poised to roll out its new-generation Switch equipped with a 7-inch OLED display,...
Monday 4 October 2021
NOR flash to remain tight through 2022
The supply of NOR flash memory has been relatively tight compared to that of DRAM and NAND flash memory, and is expected to remain short of demand through 2022, according to industry...
Thursday 23 September 2021
Worldwide foundry sales to top US$100 billion in 2021, says IC Insights
Total foundry sales this year will surpass the US$100-billion mark for the first time, and continue increasing at a strong 11.6% average annual growth rate through 2025 when total...
Friday 10 September 2021
Worldwide enterprise external OEM storage systems market revenues increase 9.7% during 2Q21, says IDC
According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker, global market revenues for enterprise external OEM storage systems grew 9.7% on year to US$6.9 billion...
Friday 20 August 2021
Intel unveils new chip architectures; expands partnership with TSMC
At Intel's Architecture Day 2021, two new X86 cores, two new datacenter SoCs and two discrete GPUs were introduced. Intel also disclosed it is among the top customers of TSMC, which...
Wednesday 30 June 2021
External SSD demand for Sony PS5 to surge in 2H21
Sony will soon reveal a list of PS5-compatible external SSDs, which will be driving growth in the overall large-capacity SSD demand during the second half of 2021, according to industry...
Friday 14 August 2020
Dialog announces compatibility of octal SPI NOR flash with Renesas MPU
Dialog Semiconductor has announced that its EcoXiP octal xSPI non-volatile memory (NVM), which was added to Dialog's portfolio through its recent acquisition of Adesto Technologies,...
Monday 27 July 2020
TSMC EUV nodes to attract orders from Intel, sources say
Intel at its recent earnings call disclosed that its next-generation 7nm processors, including the company's first 7nm datacenter GPU design, would rely on external and internal process...