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Wednesday 16 December 2020
SMIC co-CEO Liang reportedly offers to resign
Mong-song Liang has submitted his resignation to SMIC's board of directors after the China-based foundry decided to bring back Shang-yi Chiang to its management, according to sources...
Tuesday 24 November 2020
ASE to hire over 3,000 for plant in southern Taiwan
Backend house ASE Technology has announced plans to recruit over 3,000 engineers and technicians for its factory complex in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan seeking to better meet robust...
Wednesday 11 November 2020
TSMC board approves US$3.5 billion investment for US fab project
TSMC has allocated a US$3.5 billion budget for setting up a subsidiary in Arizona, where the pure-play foundry plans to build a wafe fab using 5nm process technology.
Wednesday 19 August 2020
HiSilicon team in Taiwan shrinking
Huawei's chipmaking subsidiary HiSilicon has seen many of its staff in Taiwan leaving amid increasingly tough trade sanctions from the US on the Chinese tech group, according to industry...
Friday 8 May 2020
China imports of IC to drop in 2020
China's imports of ICs are set to drop below US$300 billion in value this year, due mainly to the coronavirus pandemic impacting both supply and demand, according to Wei Shaojun,...
Tuesday 28 April 2020
Skyworks sees operations hit by outbreak
Skyworks has suspended manufacturing operations in Mexico due to the coronavirus outbreak, raising speculation about insufficient inventories for the power amplifier vendor's shipments...
Tuesday 10 March 2020
Compal, Wistron eye capacity recovery to usual level by end of March
Compal Electronics and Wistron continue to see capacity recovery in China as more of their wolrkers are returning to work, and may see their resumption rates for notebook production...
Monday 24 February 2020
China-based XMC reportedly scales down output for 1Q20
Twelve-inch foundry Wuhan Xinxin Semiconductor Manufacturing (XMC) has reportedly scaled down its chip output amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Wednesday 12 February 2020
Outbreak posing mixed impacts on different semiconductor segments in China
The coronavirus outbreak has posed mixed impacts on semiconductor firms operating in China, with backend service houses suffering the most, reaching average capacity utilization of...
Tuesday 11 February 2020
PCB makers see workers return slowly, but shipments transportation OK
Taiwan-based PCB makers operating plants in China are seeing a low return rate of workers amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak but they have secured smooth transportation for products...
Monday 10 February 2020
TSMC revenues up in January, VIS down
TSMC has reported consolidated revenues for January 2020 increased 32.8% on year and 0.4% sequentially to NT$103.68 billion (US$3.45 billion), while revenues at specialty IC foundry...
Thursday 6 February 2020
Realtek remains positive
Networking IC specialist Realtek Semiconductor remains positive about its performance in the first quarter of 2020, with no substantial shifts in customer orders so far despite the...
Thursday 6 February 2020
TSMC reiterates sales guidance for 1Q20
TSMC currently has no plans to revise its sales and margin guidance for the first quarter of 2020, according to the pure-play foundry, which also disclosed non-production staff at...
Tuesday 4 February 2020
Memory prices to rise at slower pace
Memory chip prices are likely to rise at a slower pace in February, as buyers in China are holding a wait-and-see approach, according to industry observers.
Friday 31 January 2020
Yangtze Memory maintains production unaffected by outbreak
Yangtze Memory Technology (YMTC), which is headquartered in the hardest-hit city of Wuhan in the wake of China's coronavirus outbreak, has told Digitimes that it has taken necessary...
Samsung expands mobile phone production beyond Asian countries, says DIGITIMES Research
SLMs to increase presence in GenAI business opportunities, says DIGITIMES Research
Generative AI market to reach US$1.5 trillion by 2030 with Taiwan holds hardware advantage; software and services to see promising future, says DIGITIMES Research