2092 news items tagged 2018
Samsung begins mass production at new EUV manufacturing line
Monday 24 February 2020Samsung Electronics has announced that its new cutting-edge semiconductor fabrication line in Hwaseong, Korea has begun mass production.
Demand for AMD 7nm EUV processors remains strong
Friday 21 February 2020Demand for AMD's new 7nm EUV processors remains robust, with development projects for the chips commenced by PC, motherboard and graphics card makers this year set to be 10-20% higher...
SMIC sees 14nm process start generating revenues
Monday 17 February 2020Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) started generating revenues from 14nm FinFET process technology in the fourth quarter of 2019, when the China-based pure-play foundry...
TSMC fab toolmakers remain upbeat
Friday 14 February 2020Revenue prospects for TSMC's ecosystem partners, particularly semiconductor equipment makers, remain upbeat this year despite the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, according to market...
Global Unichip expects modest growth in 2020
Wednesday 12 February 2020IC design service company Global Unichip expects to enjoy modest revenue growth in 2020, driven by growing demand for 5G and AI related devices.
Semiconductor spending declines in 2019, says Gartner
Thursday 6 February 2020Leading original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) reduced their semiconductor spend in 2019, influenced by declining memory prices, according to Gartner. Apple took the top rank from...
Silicon wafer shipments drop 7% on 2019, says SEMI
Thursday 6 February 2020Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments in 2019 declined 7% from the 2018 record high, while revenues slipped 2% on year but remained above the US$11 billion mark, according to the...
Semiconductor R&D to nudge higher through 2024, says IC Insights
Monday 3 February 2020While consolidation in the semiconductor industry contributed to lower growth rates in R&D spending in the past five years, the long-term trend has been for a slowdown in annual...
SK Hynix posts profit fall in 2019
Friday 31 January 2020SK Hynix saw its operating profits plunge 87% to KRW2.71 trillion (US$2.28 billion) in 2019, while consolidated revenues decreased 33% on year to KRW26.99 trillion. The company generated...
Yangtze Memory gearing up for transition to 128-layer 3D NAND flash
Tuesday 21 January 2020Memory startup Yangtze Memory Technology (YMTC), in which China's state-owned Tsinghua Unigroup holds a controlling stake, has reiterated plans to transition directly from 64-layer...
TSMC expects slight revenue decrease in 1Q20
Thursday 16 January 2020TSMC expects to post revenues of between US$10.2 billion and US$10.3 billion in the first quarter of 2020, representing an about 1.4% sequential decrease. Gross margin and operation...
SMIC scaling up 14nm chip output
Thursday 16 January 2020Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) has kicked off volume production of chips built using 14nm FinFET process technology at its manufacturing site in Shanghai since the...
Worldwide semiconductor revenue drops 11.9% in 2019, says Gartner
Thursday 16 January 2020Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled US$418.3 billion in 2019, down 11.9% from 2018, according to Gartner. Intel regained the No. 1 position in the market as the downturn in the...
Nanya to move 10nm DRAM technology to risk production in 2H20
Monday 13 January 2020DRAM chipmaker Nanya Technology has developed 10nm process technology in-house, with risk production to kick off in the second half of 2020, according to the Taiwan-based company.
SMIC likely to snatch HiSilicon chip orders from TSMC
Monday 13 January 2020China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) with its 14nm FinFET process manufacturing is likely to obtain orders from HiSilicon, which has been among the major clients...
Samsung, Huawei use own APs in more of their smartphones
Wednesday 8 January 2020Leading smartphone brands Samsung and Huawei are ramping up consumption of their own application processor solutions in their products, causing market share to shift away from top...
CHPT sees vertical probe card biz expand
Monday 6 January 2020Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) saw sales generated from its new VPC (vertical probe card) product line grow to account for a double-digit percentage of the company's total revenues...
NAND flash prices to rise by up to 40% in 2020
Thursday 2 January 2020NAND flash contract prices are forecast to rise by up to 40% in 2020, according to sources at memory chipmakers.
Xintec profit soars in November
Thursday 26 December 2019Niche-market IC packaging house Xintec has disclosed its net profit surged 252% from a year ago to NT$74 million (US$2.46 million) in November 2019. EPS for the month came to NT$0....
MediaTek to make aggressive 5G push in China
Tuesday 24 December 2019MediaTek is expected to embrace an ambitious strategy to grow its presence in the 5G smartphone SoC sector. It will focus its efforts on 5G chip solutions for the upper midrange smartphone...
Record amount of IC capacity forecast to be added in 2021, says IC Insights
Tuesday 24 December 2019As much as 17.9 million wafers (200mm-equivalents) per year of new IC capacity could be added in 2020, followed by another 20.8 million wafers of new IC capacity in 2021, which would...
North American semi equipment industry billings rise
Monday 23 December 2019Monthly billings of North American semiconductor equipment manufacturers, which registered their first on-year increase since October 2018 and climbed to a 14-month high in October...
TDDI chip prices to fall further in 2020
Monday 16 December 2019Prices of TDDI (touch with display driver integration) chips are expected to drop another 10-20% in 2020, according to sources at Taiwan-based fabless chipmakers, which expressed...
TSMC revenues up in November, UMC and VIS down
Tuesday 10 December 2019Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) saw its November revenues increase 1.7% sequentially, while revenues at United Microelectronics (UMC) and Vanguard International...
Macronix gearing up for 3D NAND flash
Tuesday 10 December 2019Macronix International is poised to kick off commercial shipments of 48-layer 3D NAND flash chips in the second half of 2020, followed by volume shipments of 96-layer 3D NAND products...