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Wednesday 11 September 2019
Unimicron posts record August revenues
IC substrate and PCB manufacturer Unimicron Technology has reported consolidated revenues for August 2019 increased 10.6% sequentially and 7.9% on year to a record high of NT$7.97...
Tuesday 3 September 2019
COF packaging demand for OLED DDI chips to grow sharply in 2020
COF substrate makers and related packaging houses are expected to operate at full capacity through the end of 2019 on robust demand from smartphone vendors, and their revenues may...
Tuesday 3 September 2019
Unimicron to step up investment for 5G, AI applications
Unimicron Technology has maintained its huge capex budgets for 2019 and 2020 are meant to strengthen its IC substrates technology upgrades and production capacity for the emerging...
Monday 26 August 2019
Highlights of the day: Semiconductor industry on a rise
With 5G business opportunities starting to emerge, CCL makers have been keenly increasing their capacity to satisfy...
Monday 26 August 2019
CCL, IC substrate and flexible PCB demand to boom in 5G era
Chip and component demand for 5G related applications, including network equipment, and antennas for handsets and IoT devices, is set to grow robustly starting 2020. In the PCB industry...
Thursday 22 August 2019
ABF substrate demand to stay robust through 2020
ABF substrates have seen robust demand for processing 5G networking chips and high-performance computing chips since the start of 2019, but shipments of BT substrates for mobile chips...
Wednesday 21 August 2019
Japan PCB industry output value drops in 1H19
The output value of Japan's PCB industry dropped 6.9% from a year earlier to JPY219.79 billion (US$2.06 billion) in the first half of 2019, with that of the flexible PCB sector experiencing...
Thursday 15 August 2019
COF substrate maker JMC sees clear order visibility through 1H20
Chip-on-film (COF) substrate supplier JMC Electronics has enjoyed robust demand for semi-additive tape COF packaging services, boasting clear order visibility through the first half...
Wednesday 14 August 2019
Unimicron to boost capex in 2020 to deepen ABF substrate deployment
PCB and IC substrate supplier Unimicron Technology has set aside a capex of approximately NT$16.2 billion (US$514.5 million) for 2020, up from NT$9.2 billion for 2019, to strengthen...
Friday 9 August 2019
PCB makers to enjoy brisk ABF substrates demand for AMD new server CPU
Among Taiwan IC substrates makers, Unimicron and Na Ya PCB are expected to benefit the most from AMD release of its EPYC Rome 7002 server CPU adopting TSMC 7nm node and supporting...
Wednesday 7 August 2019
PCB makers increasing ABF substrate capacity
IC substrate suppliers are moving to allocate part of their substrate-like PCBs (SLP) capacity to support production of ABF substrates that see robust demand, according to industry...
Wednesday 17 July 2019
PCB maker Dynamic denies report it will sell Taiwan plant
Rigid-flexible PCB maker Dynamic Electronics has dismissed a recent Chinese-language report indicating the company plans to sell its factory site in Taiwan to a fellow Taiwan-based...
Tuesday 16 July 2019
Taiwan backend houses to see Huawei orders pick up
Taiwan-based backend houses and COF substrate suppliers will see orders from Huawei pick up in July or August, according to industry sources.
Wednesday 10 July 2019
Order visibility for IC packaging materials clear throughout 3Q19
Clear order visibility for diverse IC packaging materials is seen through the end of the third quarter of the year thanks mainly to increasingly robust demand from OSAT (outsourced...
Tuesday 2 July 2019
TDDI IC supply chain turns optimistic about 2H19 on Huawei ban easing
Taiwan's handset TDDI IC supply chain for Huawei, including designers, backend COF service providers and substrate suppliers, have turned guardedly optimistic about their business...