Handset chips supply chain players share the view that their 2022 shipments for the segment will at best stay flat at 2021 levels, but HPC chip demand will continue to grow for datacenter,...
System integration capability is increasingly needed in packaging HPC chips for AI, networking and other applications that accelerate digital transformation at enterprises and people's...
Outsourced semiconductor assembly and testing (OSAT) vendors continue to enjoy strong order pull-in for high-end chips used in automotive, high-performance computing (HPC), and server...
While their consumer IC packaging business continues to slow down, Taiwan OSATs have received increasing inquiries about chiplet manufacturing solutions from clients in the US, China...
Logic and memory IC backend house Powertech Technology (PTI) has revised upward its capex target this year to NT$20 billion (US$683.2 million), citing more upbeat demand from custo...
Taiwan-based OSATs including ASE Technology have said their local manufacturing operations in Suzhou remain normal despite the city entering a COVID-induced semi-lockdown, but they...
Intel reportedly is mulling expanding its outsourced backend operations to include PC-use chipsets, and Powertech Technology (PTI) is expected to become the first Taiwan-based OSAT...
Powertech Technology (PTI) has obtained orders for packaging MediaTek's smartphone application processors slated for launch later in 2022, under the chipmaker's strategy to diversify...
Dedicated testing houses including Sigurd Microelectronics and King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) have seen their customers increasingly adopt a wait-and-see attitude towards order commitments...
Unfavorable macro factors including geopolitical tensions will be challenging MediaTek in 2022, but the company remains confident about its growth prospects under solid support from...
Tight foundry capacities and shortages of ABF substrates continue to cause solid-state drive (SSD) control IC supply constraints, according to sources at backend houses.
Taiwan's OSATs are slowing down their logic IC wirebonding capacity expansions as the visibility of orders for processing consumer ICs is still unclear beyond the second quarter of...
Memory backend specialist Powertech Technology (PTI) may see its revenue hit by a cutback in orders from Kioxia in the first half of 2022, but is still on track to post an at least...
It remains to be seen how Intel will materialize its IDM 2.0 growth vision, but the chipmaker will have to face a trade-off between production cost and chip performance in determining...
Automotive CMOS image sensor (CIS) packaging capacity at Taiwan-based OSATs such as Tong Hsing Electronic Industries and Xintec remains fully loaded, and they can easily carry out...
