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Monday 24 August 2020
Taiwan IC designers to see growing pressure from China homegrown competitors
Taiwan's IC designers have benefited the most from China's de-Americanization campaign, but they will have to brace for new competition pressure from Chinese chipmakers aggressively...
Wednesday 19 August 2020
Huawei reportedly looking to build 45nm chip fabrication lines without US tech
China's Huawei reportedly is looking to build its own 45nm chip fabrication lines without US technology this year, which industry sources believe is "mission impossible."
Friday 14 August 2020
China pushing for homegrown CIS sector
China has stepped up the development of its homegrown CMOS image sensor (CIS) industry sector as part of the country's ambitions to achieve self-sufficiency in chips, with SmartSens...
Wednesday 29 July 2020
China 14th 5-year plan to see IC foundry capacity expand 40%, says Digitimes Research
China's upcoming 14th five-year plan (2021-2025) will continue to highlight technology and capacity upgrades as the core of its semiconductor self-sufficiency strategy, with foundry...
Friday 17 July 2020
Top China backend firms gaining significant expansion momentum
China's top-3 backend houses JCET, Huatian Technology and Tongfu Microelectronics, now all among the world's top-10 IC assembly and testing firms, are gaining increasing business...
Tuesday 14 July 2020
China de-Americanizing supply chain rapidly
China has been stepping up its de-Americanization campaign seeking to strengthen its chip self-sufficiency in 2020 as its trade disputes with the US intensify, according to industry...
Monday 13 July 2020
Chinese chipmakers keen on developing 5G RF, PA modules
Chinese chipmakers including Lansus Technologies, MeidaTek-affiliate Vanchip Technology, and Unisoc Communications under the Tsinghua Unigroup are keenly developing 5G RF-FEM products...
Thursday 2 July 2020
China top-3 OSAT firms to see combined revenues rise 8% in 2020, says Digitimes Research
China's top-3 OSAT providers - Jiangsu Changjiang Electronics Technology (JCET), Huatian Technology and Tongfu Microelectronics - are expected to see their combined revenues increase...
Tuesday 23 June 2020
China IC sector to thrive on 5G, AIoT, EV applications
The year 2020 may become the watershed in the evolution of global supply chains with regionalization and demassification in high gear posing major changes to the world, and the semiconductor...
Wednesday 17 June 2020
IC analysis lab MSS enters TSMC supply chain
Taiwan-based Material Science Service (MSS), which provides IC material and failure analysis as well as FIB circuit repair/editing services, has entered the supply chain for TSMC's...
Wednesday 3 June 2020
SMIC in no position to challenge TSMC, Samsung in next 5 years
China's major homegrown foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) is gearing up to raise funds to support its development of advanced manufacturing nodes, but...
Monday 1 June 2020
Taiwan ASIC developers continue to enjoy strong demand from China
Taiwan-based ASIC and SoC design service providers including Alchip, Faraday Technology and Global Unichip continue to see robust demand from China's chipmaking industry, which has...
Wednesday 27 May 2020
Raising IC self-sufficiency increasingly difficult for China
US vendors remain dominant players in the global front-end semiconductor equipment market segment, which will be a critical factor blocking China's ambition of raising self-sufficiency...
Tuesday 26 May 2020
BYD reorganizes chipmaking arm to focus on EV power devices
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker BYD Group has reorganized its wholly-owned subsidiary BYD Microelectronics and renamed it BYD Semiconductor paving the way for its independent...
Friday 22 May 2020
China to fall far short of IC self-sufficiency goal
IC production in China represented 15.7% of its US$125 billion IC market in 2019, up only slightly from 15.1% five years earlier in 2014, according to IC Insights. The share is forecast...