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Wednesday 24 May 2023
Nan Ya mulls new plant in Southeast Asia
Nan Ya PCB, among Taiwan's major ABF substrate suppliers, is mulling to set up a new plant in Southeast Asia, according to company senior vice president LR Lu.
Wednesday 24 May 2023
IC backend houses to deepen deployments in Southeast Asia
Taiwan-based OSATs such as ASE Technology, and IC test interface specialists including Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) and WinWay Technology, have all expanded their operations...
Wednesday 24 May 2023
Vietnam could be the next IC design hub
Boasting favorable government policies, lower overall labor costs, burgeoning local semiconductor actors such as Viettel, Vingroup, and FPT, Vietnam is garnering more than mere attention...
Tuesday 23 May 2023
With Tesla reconciling with Largan, will Asia Optical be dropped?
Market sources recently pointed out that Taiwan-based Largan Precision has privately settled its patent infringement "warning" against EV leader Tesla regarding automotive lenses...
Tuesday 23 May 2023
Micron could lose US$3 billion in revenue injection from China
Micron Technology could lose an estimated US$3 billion in revenue from China as a result of the country's ban on Chinese enterprises working on critical infrastructure projects procuring...
Monday 22 May 2023
Leadframe supplier CWTC opens new factory in southern Taiwan
Chang Wah Technology (CWTC) has inaugurated a new facility in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, where it will manufacture leadframes for advanced quad flat no-lead (aQFN) packaging, third-generation...
Monday 22 May 2023
NAND flash prices may level off after 3Q23, says Silicon Motion
NAND flash memory prices are unlikely to stabilize until after the third quarter of 2023, according to Wallace Kou, president and CEO of flash device controller specialist Silicon...
Thursday 18 May 2023
Tongwei dominates polysilicon industry
Tongwei, a Chinese manufacturer of polysilicon, has strengthened its position as the market leader worldwide. Bernreuter Research reports that in 2022, the company produced 1.6 times...
Wednesday 17 May 2023
Micron intros new datacenter SSD featuring 232-layer NAND
Micron Technology has released two SSDs: the Micron 6500 ION NVMe SSD and the Micron XTR NVMe SSD. These drives, designed to keep up with the accelerating growth of data, provide...
Wednesday 17 May 2023
Taiwan MCU suppliers brace for price war triggered by Chinese peers
Due to the low demand for consumer electronics, price competition among China-based MCU suppliers is becoming increasingly fierce, according to industry sources in Taiwan. Taiwan-based...
Tuesday 16 May 2023
Future of work spending in Asia Pacific to reach US$196.2 billion by 2026, says IDC
According to a recent IDC Asia Pacific, excluding Japan, Future of Work (FoW) market forecast, 2022-2026, Asia Pacific excluding Japan FoW spending is forecasted to grow at a CAGR...
Tuesday 16 May 2023
Samsung develops DRAM supporting CXL 2.0
Samsung Electronics has developed what the company claims is the industry's first 128-gigabyte (GB) DRAM to support Compute Express Link (CXL) 2.0. Intel and Samsung collaborated...
Tuesday 16 May 2023
MOSFET suppliers cautious about 2Q23
MOSFET suppliers continue to experience excess inventory throughout the PC and handset industry supply chains, and their near-term business prospects remain uncertain, according to...
Monday 15 May 2023
Himax sees challenging 2Q23
Dispaly driver IC company Himax Technologies has warned of a challenging second quarter in terms of both sales and gross margin, but believes this will be a short-term phenomenon...
Monday 15 May 2023
Tape COF substrate supplier JMC posts smaller loss in 1Q23
Taiwan-based JMC Electronics, a tape chip-on-film (COF) substrate supplier, saw its net losses narrow to NT$18 million (US$0.58 million) in the first quarter of 2023, despite a 17%...