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Wednesday 28 December 2022
Taiwan III-V IC suppliers see different market prospects for 2023
Taiwan's compound semiconductor foundry houses and epi-wafer suppliers show different views about when market demand will rebound in 2023, after seeing their shipments of handset-use...
Tuesday 20 December 2022
GaAs wafer foundries conservative about 1H23 sales
Taiwanese GaAs wafer foundries will likely see their utilization rates stay flat before the end of second-quarter 2023 as no sights indicate that demand for power amplifiers (PAs)...
Monday 31 October 2022
Win Semi expects over 10% revenue drop in 4Q22
GaAs foundry Win Semiconductors, which saw its revenue drop 26% sequentially in the third quarter of 2022, expects to post another sequential revenue decline of 11-13% in the fourth...
Thursday 6 October 2022
LandMark 2H22 performance bolstered by InP LD/PD shipments reportedly for new iPhones
Taiwan-based LandMark Optoelectronics, specializing in production of GaAs and InP epiwafers, is expected to score revenue and profit gains in the second half of the year from strong...
Thursday 6 October 2022
Taiwan 6-inch foundries brace for weak 2H22
Taiwan-based 6-inch foundries are bracing for a particularly weak second half of this year, due to the falling demand for handset power amplifiers (PA) and other related chip solutions,...
Wednesday 14 September 2022
Taiwan compound semi industry faces challenges, says GlobalWafers chairperson
Challenges such as entry barriers for substrates and other raw materials, and rising production costs are facing Taiwan's compound semiconductor industry supply chain, according to...
Wednesday 14 September 2022
Inventory correction for handset PAs to last longer, says Win Semi
Inventory correction for handset power amplifiers (PA) is going to take a longer time than expected, according to Dennis Chen, chairman for Taiwan-based GaAs foundry Win Semiconduc...
Tuesday 13 September 2022
Taiwan 3D sensor makers to see 4Q22 sales boosted by new iPhones
Taiwan's 3D sensor supply chain players are expected to see their fourth-quarter revenue performance bolstered by shipments for the newly debuted iPhone 14 series, which, particularly...
Thursday 1 September 2022
InP epi-wafer demand promising for niche-market applications
InP-based epitaxial wafer demand will be promising for niche-market applications, particularly optical communication uses bolstered by continuous construction of large-size datacenters...
Wednesday 10 August 2022
China's Silan to establish 150mm wafer fab for SiC power devices
Silan Microelectronics, a Chinese IDM specialized in power semiconductor, has announced plans to invest a total of CNY1.5 billion (US$222.2 million) to establish a 150mm wafer fabrication...
Thursday 28 July 2022
Epi-wafer vendor LandMark expects sales growth in 3Q22
Taiwan-based LandMark Optoelectronics, dedicated to manufacturing GaAS and InP-based epi-wafer chips for optical communications, consumer and industrial applications, expects to post...
Wednesday 27 July 2022
Destocking of handset power amplifier continues
Lackluster Android smartphone sales have led to significant inventory corrections of related power amplifier (PA) products, and there is no indication that such adjustments will end...
Thursday 21 July 2022
3D sensor demand to boom for metaverse hardware
Metaverse hardware is seen as the next "killer app" for the 3D optical sensor market, prompting compound semiconductor and optical sensor suppliers to team up to develop metaverse...
Wednesday 6 July 2022
Taiwan GaAs foundries to see fab utilization rates rise in 3Q22
GaAs foundries Win Semiconductors and Advanced Wireless Semiconductor (AWSC) are both expected to see their fab capacity utilization rates pick up in the third quarter of 2022, according...
Wednesday 29 June 2022
Taiwan III-V IC makers enter Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 supply chain
Taiwan-based epiwafer suppliers and gallium arsenide (GaAs) foundries have cut into the supply chain for Qualcomm's recently-announced Wi-Fi 7 frontend module (FEM) solutions designed...