The semiconductor industry has entered a downward phase of the cycle due to the worsening of the overall economic conditions, and how the future supply and demand will evolve has...
In "The New Critical Era of Supply Chains Restructuring and Resilience Strengthening" forum hosted recently by DIGITIMES Asia, experts from IC distributors - WPG Holdings' chief marketing...
The semiconductor industry is seeing demand cringes as inventory adjustments continue in the consumer electronics sector and macroeconomic growth slows.
IC distributor WPG has reported net profits and EPS for the second quarter of 2022 beat its estimates given previously, buoyed by non-operating income, when revenue slipped 5.2% sequentially...
The global demand for consumer electronics such as smartphones, PCs, notebooks and TVs has significantly been undermined by several headwinds, including pandemics, war, and inflation,...
Taiwan's OSATs may not move to set up plants in the US though the US Congress has approved the Chips and Science Act 2022, and instead will carry out capacity expansions at their...
DIGITIMES Research recently conducted a survey of China's IC design industry. According to the data collected, China's total semiconductor imports in 2021 reached US$432.5 billion,...
Taiwan's top foundry TSMC and leading silicon wafer vendor GlobalWafers are playing crucial roles in helping the US rebooting its semiconductor supply, with the former constructing...
SEMI, Foxconn Technology and UMC have jointly released the SEMI Auto IC Master program designed to provide complete automotive chip solutions through effective and close partnerships...
As a whole, the notebook market has seen a reversal in demand, with consumer models bearing the brunt of sales downturn. Shipments of education-use Chromebooks, which played a pioneering...
A talent shortage is challenging South Korea's chipmaking industry. Chipmakers including Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have urged the country's new government to pay attention...
Apple has become a bellwether in the HPC chip segment by rolling out its high-performance M1 series built using advanced process at its foundry partner, but all other manufacturing...
Worldwide sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment in 2021 surged 44% to an all-time record of US$102.6 billion from US$71.2 billion in 2020, according to SEMI.
Semiconductor manufacturers worldwide are on track to boost 200mm fab capacity by 1.2 million wafers, or 21%, from the start of 2020 to the end of 2024 to hit a record high of 6.9...
