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Wednesday 5 October 2022
TSMC negotiating lower prices with suppliers
TSMC has started negotiating prices with its equipment and materials suppliers for 2023, eyeing price drops of at least 10%, according to industry sources.
Friday 23 September 2022
TSMC advanced chips score high energy efficiency
Semiconductor energy efficiency has improved 1X every two years over the past 15 years, with advanced chips showing particularly strong performance, according to TSMC chairman Mark...
Monday 29 August 2022
TSMC, UMC to see 22/28nm chips capacity fully loaded till end-year
TSMC and UMC will see full capacity utilization for 22/28nm processes persist at least throughout 2022, as their capacities vacated by some consumer chip clients are soon filled by...
Monday 22 August 2022
IC design houses mull asking TSMC to halve quote hikes for 2023
Taiwan IC design houses are mulling a move to renegotiate with TSMC on foundry prices for 2023, looking to have the chip manufacturing partner halve its quote hike to 3% for mature...
Friday 19 August 2022
Samsung to be hit by tougher US-imposed China chip ban
With the US tightening restrictions on China's access to chipmaking gear, such a development will have a negative impact on Samsung Electronics and other major Korea-based chipmakers,...
Friday 5 August 2022
Pegatron denies reports about China blocking shipments
Pegatron has denied media reports that claimed shipments to and from its factory sites in China were being held for scrutiny by Chinese customs officials in the wake of a company...
Thursday 4 August 2022
Parade 3Q22 sales to fall as clients continue inventory correction
High-speed transmission chip specialist Parade Technologies has newly projected a notable sequential fall for third-quarter 2022 revenues as clients will remain keen on adjusting...
Wednesday 3 August 2022
US sanctions impede future expansion at mature nodes, but impacts are short-term, says former SMIC executive
Late evening on August 2, Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the US House of Representatives, landed in Taipei, Taiwan, marking the most geopolitically charged chapter of her ongoing Asia to...
Tuesday 2 August 2022
Tightened US ban on China chipmakers to have little impact on Taiwan
With the US tightening restrictions on China's access to chipmaking equipment, Taiwan-based fab tool suppliers engaged in the supply chain of SMIC and other China-based chipmakers...
Thursday 28 July 2022
UMC expects fab capacity to stay fully utilized in 3Q22
United Microelectronics (UMC) will continue to run its fabs at full capacity utilization in the third quarter of 2022 when the pure-play foundry expects to post flat sequential increases...
Monday 25 July 2022
Foundries reportedly adjusting capacity expansion plans in 2H22
Many foundry houses and IDMs are mulling scaling back or postponing their capacity expansions amid sharply weakening chip demand for consumer applications, except for TSMC, which...
Wednesday 20 July 2022
China IC designers score points in developing homegrown CPUs
China has witnessed rapid development of homegrown CPU chips in recent years, gradually stretching from single product development to ecosystem deployments looking to break the dominance...
Tuesday 12 July 2022
Flash device controller production capacity loosening
The supply of SSD and other NAND flash device controller chips, which are manufactured using 55nm, 40nm and 28nm process technologies at 12-inch fabs, has become less tight as foundries...
Tuesday 12 July 2022
UMC executives to visit Samsung in end-July
High-level executives of Taiwan-based pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) plan to visit South Korea later this month and meet with Samsung Electronics counterparts to...
Thursday 7 July 2022
OLED DDI supply remains tight with stable prices in 2H22
OLED display driver ICs (DDI) remains in relatively tight supply with prices expected to stay put in the second half of the year, and suppliers are pinning their hopes on the chip...