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Friday 29 September 2017
Toshiba seals JPY2 trillion deal with Bain group
Toshiba announced on September 28 the company had signed a deal to sell its memory-chip business - Toshiba Memory - to a group led by Bain Capital for about JPY2 trillion (US$18 bi...
Tuesday 26 September 2017
Sigurd to enter board of Winstek
Winstek Semiconductor (formerly STATS ChipPAC Taiwan Semiconductor) is scheduled to hold a shareholders meeting on November 15 to re-elect its board of directors. Sigurd Microelectronics...
Thursday 21 September 2017
Toshiba agrees to sell memory-chip unit to Bain Capital-led consortium
Toshiba has agreed to sell its memory-chip business to KK Pangea, a special purpose acquisition company formed by a Bain Capital Private Equity-led consortium. The decision was made...
Monday 4 September 2017
Posiflex board approves plan for Portwell acquisition
The board of industrial PC (IPC) maker Posiflex Technology has approved a plan to invest over NT$5.1 billion (US$173.4 million) to fully acquire Portwell, also an IPC player, for...
Monday 4 September 2017
Lam Research completes acquisition of Coventor
Lam Research, a supplier of wafer fabrication equipment and services to the semiconductor industry, has completed the acquisition of Coventor, a provider of simulation and modeling...
Wednesday 30 August 2017
Western Digital to acquire Tegile Systems
Western Digital has announced plans to acquire Tegile Systems, a provider of flash and persistent-memory storage solutions for enterprise data center applications. Financial terms...
Tuesday 29 August 2017
Nidec to acquire SV Probe
Japan-based Nidec has announced plans to acquire SV Probe, a Singapore-based probe card manufacturer, through subsidiary Nidec-Read. A stock purchase agreement has been reached between...
Tuesday 22 August 2017
China PCB firms step up capacity expansion
China-based PCB manufacturers including Suzhou Dongshan Precision Manufacturing (DSBJ) and Jiangxi Holitech Technology have moved to expand their production capacities eyeing a bigger...
Wednesday 16 August 2017
Toshiba says court order will not affect memory operations
Toshiba has been ordered by a US court to resume Western Digital's access to certain Toshiba's databases, but this order will not affect the operations of its memory chip unit - Toshiba...
Monday 14 August 2017
GCS optimistic about VCSEL demand for data centers
Pure-play compound semiconductor wafer foundry Global Communication Semiconductors (GCS) has expressed optimism about gallium arsenide (GaAs) demand for vertical cavity surface-emitting...
Friday 11 August 2017
DRAM contract prices to continue growth in 3Q17, says DRAMeXchange
DRAM contract prices, which began to rise in the second half of 2016, continue their growth in the second half of 2017. Prices are set to continue rising in the third quarter, according...
Wednesday 9 August 2017
GlobalWafers posts record 2Q17 profit
Taiwan-based GlobalWafers, a silicon wafer supplier, has reported net profits climbed to a record high of NT$1.29 billion (US$42.8 million) in the second quarter of 2017. EPS for...
Monday 31 July 2017
GlobalWafers strikes deal with Samsung, says report
Taiwan-based GlobalWafers has signed a 2-3 year deal with Samsung Electronics under which GlobalWafers will provide Samsung a certain amount of silicon wafers at no fixed purchased...
Wednesday 26 July 2017
Value of semiconductor industry M&A deals slows dramatically in 1H17, says IC Insights
The historic flood of merger and acquisition agreements that swept through the semiconductor industry in the past two years slowed to a trickle in the first half of 2017, with the...
Friday 21 July 2017
Ardentec obtains testing orders for car-use chips from TI
Taiwan-based Ardentec has grabbed testing orders for car-use chips from Texas Instruments (TI), which will buoy its sales performance in the third quarter, according to industry so...
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Samsung expands mobile phone production beyond Asian countries, says DIGITIMES Research
SLMs to increase presence in GenAI business opportunities, says DIGITIMES Research
Generative AI market to reach US$1.5 trillion by 2030 with Taiwan holds hardware advantage; software and services to see promising future, says DIGITIMES Research