652 news items tagged industrial
Foxconn subsidiaries push into 5G businesses
Thursday 12 December 2019Now that Young Liu has taken the helm, the Foxconn Technology Group (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has begun a series of transformations targeting the business opportunity from 5G,...
ITRI establishes laser source industry alliance
Thursday 12 December 2019Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has assembled local laser source suppliers to form an industry alliance, looking to help them explore laser product business...
AVY expands into automotive component business via Japan affiliates
Tuesday 10 December 2019AVY Precision Technology is expanding its automotive component business to cover products including electric parking braking (EPB) system module and electric vehicle motor, and expects...
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...
Smart glasses may replace smartphones, says Jorjin chairman
Monday 9 December 2019Smart glasses enabled by AR/MR technologies may gradually replace smartphones, with such a trend beginning to emerge in 2023 according to Tom Liang, chairman for both Taiwan-based...
Nuvoton to buy Panasonic chip unit
Friday 29 November 2019Panasonic has agreed to sell its semiconductor business to Nuvoton Technology, a Taiwan-based MCU specialist majority owned by memory chipmaker Winbond Electronics.
China sets up fund for industrial upgrades with focus on new materials
Friday 22 November 2019China has set up a CNY147.2 billion (US$20.94 billion) national fund aimed at spurring transformations and upgrades at its manufacturing industries to turn the country into a smart...
Memory module makers optimistic about 2020
Thursday 21 November 2019Taiwan-based memory module manufacturers have expressed optimism about their performances in 2020, when chip prices and demand are set to recover at a modest pace.
Taiwan IPC firms expanding capacity locally
Wednesday 20 November 2019Several Industrial PC (IPC) firms are planning to expand their capacities in Taiwan to cope with the US-China trade tensions, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.
Chin-Poon stays cautious about automotive PCB demand
Wednesday 20 November 2019Chin-Poon Industrial remains cautious about demand for automotive electronics, which is unlikely to pick up until 2020, according to the PCB manufacturer.
Synergy from acquiring Kemet: Q&A with Yageo chairman Pierre Chen
Tuesday 19 November 2019Taiwan-based Yageo announced recently plans to acquire fellow US-based passive component company Kemet in an all-cash transaction valued at US$1.8 billion. The acquisition is expected...
Transcend to post better 4Q19 results
Monday 11 November 2019Memory module firm Transcend Information expects to post better financial results for the fourth quarter compared to the third quarter, citing recovery in end-market demand and chip...
Tencent eyes rising demand for digital transformation and cloud infrastructure in China
Thursday 7 November 2019With Internet Plus becoming a national strategic policy for China, demand for digital transformation and cloud computing infrastructure has been rising exponentially in the country...
IPC firm ICP DAS diversifies into biomedical TPU production
Tuesday 5 November 2019Industrial computing solutions supplier ICP DAS has recently made a big stride forward in its business diversify efforts by inaugurating a plant in northern Taiwan to produce polymeric...
Cooling fan makers eye automotive business opportunities
Tuesday 5 November 2019Cooling fan makers are looking forward to the business opportunities brought by autonomous driving and 5G developments with Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry expecting demand...
Global MEMS and sensors fab capacity to grow 25% through 2023, SEMI reports
Friday 1 November 2019Total worldwide installed capacity for MEMS and sensors fabs is forecast to grow 25% to 4.7 million 200mm equivalent wafers per month from 2018 to 2023, driven by explosive demand...
MLCC demand booming for 5G networking, industrial applications
Thursday 24 October 2019MLCC firms have struck new long-term contracts for the supply of high temperature-resistant and medium- to high-capacitance MLCCs for 5G base station equipment and industrial applications,...
Giantplus looks to greater synergy with Toppan
Tuesday 22 October 2019Taiwan-based flat panel maker Giantplus Technology looks to expand its collaboration with its parent company Toppan Printing to achieve greater synergy, according to comany sources...
Automation demand may not recover until after mid-2020
Tuesday 15 October 2019With manufacturers starting to move some production out of China to avoid the US tariff on products imported from the "world's factory," robot and automation solution providers are...
Toshiba Memory debuts 2nd-gen serial interface NAND
Friday 27 September 2019Toshiba Memory has announced the launch of a new family of SLC NAND flash memory products for embedded applications. Compatible with the widely-used serial peripheral interface (SPI),...
Semiconductor demand from industrial applications continues to sizzle in 2018, says IHS
Tuesday 24 September 2019Benefitting from broad-based demand growth generated by a plethora of applications, the global industrial semiconductor market expanded by 10.8% to reach US$52 billion in 2018, according...
Entegris, Gudeng competing for EUV pod orders
Monday 23 September 2019Entegris and Gudeng Precision Industrial, both of which have received ASML certification for their reticle pods for high-volume IC manufacturing using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography,...
China has several hundred IIoT platforms, says AII
Monday 23 September 2019China's Alliance of Industrial Internet (AII) has recently published a white paper about Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) showing there are currently a few hundred IIoT platforms...
Foxconn aims to become solution provider in semiconductor industry
Thursday 19 September 2019The Foxconn Group's development direction in the semiconductor industry will primarily focus on vertical integration, aiming to become a solution provider and devoting its investments...
Innolux collaborates with ITRI to develop FOPLP technology
Thursday 19 September 2019Innolux has teamed up with Taiwan's government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) to develop fan-out panel-level packaging (FOPLP) technology, which will be...
- Texas Instruments' quarterly outlook tops view (Jul 24, 2018) - The Financial Times
- ON Semiconductor expands manufacturing operations in Pennsylvania (Jun 21, 2018) - Company release
- Nokia to supply Shanghai Oriental Pearl Group with advanced wireless networking technology for smart city services (Jun 30) - Company release
- Texas Instruments sees chip sales growth in auto, industrial (Apr 26) - Bloomberg
- Intel dives further into IoT, announces Cyclone 10 FPGAs (Feb 14) - Tom's Hardware Guide
- Texas Instruments predicts profit above analysts' estimates (Jan 25) - Bloomberg
- China chip policy poses risk to US firms, White House says (Jan 7) - Bloomberg
- Japan's Taiwanese tech savior (Dec 27) - Bloomberg
- Siemens to buy Mentor Graphics amid push to digitize heavy industry (Nov 14) - Wall Street Journal
- Exclusive: Siemens nears deal to buy Mentor Graphics - sources (Nov 13) - Reuters