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Wednesday 2 August 2023
VIS remains upbeat about long-term 8-inch foundry market outlook
Despite short-term headwinds, the long-term demand outlook for the 8-inch silicon wafer market remains resilient, according to specialty IC foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor...
Wednesday 2 August 2023
An analogy between semiconductor competition and World Baseball Classic
Semiconductor industry is extremely capital-intensive and technology-driven. Those players who hold dominant positions define the market. To illustrate this, I'll use the analogy...
Tuesday 1 August 2023
VIS posts sequential profit growth in 2Q23
Specialty IC foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) has reported net profits surged 46.3% sequentially to nearly NT$2 billion (US$63.2 million) in the second quarter of...
Tuesday 1 August 2023
Win Semi loss narrows in 2Q23
GaAs foundry Win Semiconductors saw its loss shrink significantly in the second quarter of 2023, when its fab utilization rates rebounded to around 40%.
Friday 28 July 2023
IFS sees 2Q23 sales quadruple from year ago; Intel 20A and 18A stay on steady track
Intel has posted a surging on-year growth of 307% in revenues from Intel Foundry Service (IFS) and the chip giant believes its on-schedule manufacturing process developments of Intel...
Monday 24 July 2023
Shanghai HLMC is said to takeover GF's Chengdu Foundry
At a time when China is in urgent need of increasing its semiconductor capacity, Chinese media outlet Ijiwei has recently disclosed that Shanghai Huali Microelectronics (HLMC),...
Friday 21 July 2023
TSMC sales poised to rebound in 2024, sources believe
A surge in AI server chip demand cannot offset the overall slump in consumer electronics demand, causing TSMC to cut its revenue growth forecast for 2023 to a 10% drop. However, market...
Friday 21 July 2023
AI server chip demand to surge over next 5 years, says TSMC
Demand for AI server processors, including CPUs, GPUs, and AI accelerators, has already contributed approximately 6% to TSMC's total revenue, according to company CEO CC Wei at a...
Thursday 20 July 2023
Samsung foundry rumored to be in partnership with Tenstorrent and Groq
Samsung's semiconductor foundry business has reportedly initiated chip development collaborations with AI chip startups Tenstorrent and Groq, targeting the AI market and aiming to...
Wednesday 19 July 2023
RAMP-C program on Intel 18A adds 2 strategic defense industrial base customers
According to Intel, Boeing and Northrop Grumman have joined phase two of the Department of Defense's RAMP-C program, which aims to facilitate a leading-edge US foundry ecosystem on...
Wednesday 19 July 2023
South Korea's 8-inch wafer fabs see utilization fall under 50%
The capacity utilization rates of 8-inch wafer fabs in South Korea are halved from their 2022 levels, with the exception of DB Hitek, due to sluggish demand for information technology...
Tuesday 18 July 2023
Fab toolmakers see orders contract
Semiconductor equipment suppliers are experiencing a decline in customer orders, which may limit their growth in the second half of this year, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 18 July 2023
Samsung Foundry reportedly received 4nm AI chip order; advanced packaging may become bottleneck
Reports stated that due to Samsung Foundry's massive improvement in its 4nm process yield rate, it has already secured an AI chip foundry order from a major data center client.
Monday 17 July 2023
UMC fully owns 12-inch foundry subsidiary in Xiamen
Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) has completed acquiring the rest of the shares from its Chinese partners in the Xiamen joint venture, United Semiconductor, for a total...
Friday 14 July 2023
Korean media: Samsung's foundry business likely faces US$780 million in losses for 1H23
BusinessKorea cited sources in the foundry industry saying that Samsung Electronics' foundry division, including the System LSI Division, is estimated to have posted sales...
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