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Friday 14 August 2020
Xintec sees 12-inch wafer probing as new growth driver
Taiwan-based CIS and 3D sensor packaging specialist Xintec has kicked off volume production at its newly-installed 12-inch wafer probing lines since July, and expects the new business...
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...
Thursday 13 August 2020
Protective component maker Thinking posts record margins
Circuit protection device specialist Thinking Electronic Industrial saw its gross margin and operating margin climb to record highs of 46.12% and 31.94%, respectively, in the second...
Thursday 6 August 2020
O-film profits surge in 1H20
China-based camera module maker O-film Tech has reported net profit of CNY360 million (US$51.9 million) for second-quarter 2020, up 156% sequentially and 30.1% on year, driven by...
Wednesday 5 August 2020
Via Pixetto vision sensors ready to help students learn AI
Following years of transformation efforts, Via Technologies is now dedicated to AI solutions with core technologies covering computer vision, deep learning and machine learning, and...
Friday 24 July 2020
Inventec Appliances to supply low-cost ventilators to Fitbit
Fitbit has launched the Fitbit Flow, a low-cost emergency ventilator with Inventec Appliances reportedly being the sole supplier, according to sources from the upstream supply chai...
Wednesday 22 July 2020
KLA intros electron-beam defect inspection system
KLA has announced the eSL10 e-beam patterned-wafer defect inspection system, which is designed to accelerate time-to-market for high-performance logic and memory chips, including...
Friday 10 July 2020
GIS revenues surge nearly 50% in 2Q20
Touch panel maker General Interface Solutions (GIS) has reported strong sales for the second quarter of 2020, buoyed by increased shipments of touch solutions for notebook and tablet...
Wednesday 8 July 2020
Macronix, Pixart post revenue growth in June
Memory chipmaker Macronix International and image sensor specialist Pixart Imaging, with both reportedly in the supply chain for Nintendo's Switch, saw their June revenues grow.
Friday 3 July 2020
Elan posts record 2Q20 revenue
Touchscreen solution and fingerprint sensor specialist Elan Microelectronics has reported revenue climbed 60.4% sequentially and 62.2% on year to an all-time high of NT$3.54 billion...
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...
Thursday 18 June 2020
China, Taiwan IC designers keen on developing OLED DDI chips
Fabless chipmakers in Taiwan and China specializing in display driver ICs and fingerprint sensor chips are keenly developing OLED DDI chip solutions for smartphones seeking to build...
Friday 12 June 2020
CMOS image sensors to resume record run in 2021, says IC Insights
The fallout from the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 is expected to lower CMOS image sensor sales for the first time in 10 years, but new record-high revenues are seen next year, according...
Wednesday 10 June 2020
LiDAR gaining penetration in autonomous vehicles, but hurdles remain, says Digitimes Research
Many first-tier international automotive components makers have been keen on collaborating with LiDAR developers trying to increase economies of scale for LiDAR devices, but high...
Tuesday 9 June 2020
Growing optical sensor applications to benefit Taiwan supply chain players
As optical sensors are increasingly applied to wearable devices, TWS (true wireless stereo) earphones, AR/VR headsets and healthcare devices, Taiwan's IC designers, III-V semiconductor...