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Friday 21 June 2019
Intel to slash desktop processor prices by up to 15%
Intel is planning to cut prices of its eighth- and ninth-generation desktop processors by 10-15% and has already notified its downstream PC and motherboard partners, according to...
Wednesday 8 May 2019
IC designers placing additional foundry orders in anticipation of 3Q19 boom
Taiwan IC designers are now moving to place additional orders with foundry houses and thicken their inventories lest they should suffer insufficient foundry capacity support in the...
Thursday 18 April 2019
Renesas migration to fab-lite model to benefit Taiwan OSAT firms
Renesas is reportedly moving toward a fab-lite business model by temporarily shutting down some frontend and backend fabs, with its Taiwan-based OSAT partners including ASE, Ardentec,...
Tuesday 12 March 2019
Backend firms KYEC, Kingpak and GEM to see sales buck seasonal trends in 1H19
King Yuan Electronics (KYEC), Kingpak Technology and GEM Services are expected to see their sales growth exceed the seasonal average in the first half of 2019, outperforming their...
Thursday 21 February 2019
Infineon stepping up outsourcing to Taiwan makers
Infineon will be stepping up its outsourcing of commodity products to Taiwan-based foundries and backend houses, while keeping the production of its differentiated products that generate...
Tuesday 11 December 2018
PSI ventures RF wafer thinning service into China 5G equipment supply chain
Taiwan-based Phoenix Silicon International (PSI) has indirectly tapped into the supply chains of major China telecom equipment makers by providing wafer thinning service for radio...
Monday 5 November 2018
Backend specialists moving to tap booming demand for automotive chips
International IDMs have turned conservative about outsourcing packaging services for ICs needed to power mobile communication and consumer electronics devices, undermining Taiwan...
Tuesday 30 October 2018
Intel to outsource entry-level processor, chipset production
As its processor supply continues to fall short of demand, Intel reportedly has begun planning to outsource production for its entry-level Atom processors and some of its chipsets...
Monday 10 September 2018
Intel to outsource 14nm chipset production due to tight supply
Intel is encountering tight 14nm process production capacity in-house, and is looking to outsource part of its 14nm chipset production to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company...
Friday 29 June 2018
Digitimes Research worldwide notebook shipment update – May 2018
The worldwide top-5 notebook brands (excluding Apple) and top-3 ODMs saw their shipments went up from a month ago in May due to rising procurement orders from North America's education...
Tuesday 27 March 2018
Worldwide spending on cognitive and AI systems to grow to US$19.1 billion in 2018, says IDC
Worldwide spending on cognitive and artificial intelligence (AI) systems will reach US$19.1 billion in 2018, an increase of 54.2% over the amount spent in 2017, according to IDC....
Monday 5 March 2018
Digitimes Research worldwide notebook shipment update – January 2018
With the notebook market entering the traditional slow season, the worldwide top-5 notebook brands saw their combined shipments drop for the second consecutive month in January 2018...
Monday 29 January 2018
Samsung, Apple remain top semiconductor customers
Samsung Electronics and Apple remained the top two semiconductor chip buyers in 2017, representing 19.5% of the total worldwide market, according to Gartner. Samsung and Apple together...
Thursday 18 January 2018
Wiwynn to increase manpower by 30-40%
White-box server and storage equipment maker Wiwynn, a subsidiary of Wistron, will expand its workforce by 30-40% in 2018 in anticipation of increasing orders, according to company...
Monday 15 January 2018
Apple to give more MacBook orders to Foxconn in 2018
Apple is expected to shift a major portion of its MacBook orders to Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) in 2018 instead of its old practice of giving most of the orders...