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Tuesday 19 July 2022
Qualcomm, Marvell, Intel to raise chip prices
Qualcomm and Marvell have both notified their customers about price increases that may come into effect as early as August, joining a few chip suppliers including Intel and TSMC looking...
Wednesday 13 July 2022
Protective component maker Thinking eyeing more niche-market apps
Circuit protection device specialist Thinking Electronic Industrial will intensify deployments in EV, medical care and other niche-market applications while shifting more focus away...
Tuesday 12 July 2022
Flash device controller production capacity loosening
The supply of SSD and other NAND flash device controller chips, which are manufactured using 55nm, 40nm and 28nm process technologies at 12-inch fabs, has become less tight as foundries...
Monday 11 July 2022
PMIC vendors likely to have more 8-inch fab capacity for 2023
Tight capacity supply at 8-inch wafer fabs is on track to ease on weakening demand for large-size display driver ICs, CMOS image sensors (CIS) and even power management ICs (PMIC)...
Thursday 7 July 2022
Components suppliers diversify operations to survive market headwinds
Many suppliers of components for notebooks, handsets and other consumer electronics devices have striven to diversify their product lines, markets and applications in recent years,...
Thursday 7 July 2022
Taiwan power diode and MOSFET suppliers turning focus away from PCs
With PC ODMs and OEMs bracing for a particularly slow second half of 2022, related power diode and MOSFET suppliers have moved to vie for more orders from the power supply system...
Thursday 7 July 2022
IC IDMs see lead times shorten
Deceleration in pull-ins of orders for HPC and handset chips has significantly shortened delivery lead times at IDMs, according to industry sources in China. However, the available...
Wednesday 6 July 2022
5G penetration speed faster than 4G by 2 years, says Ericsson
The penetration of 5G is rising faster than 4G, and the number of global 5G users will top one billion by the end of 2022, two years faster than the corresponding pace for 4G, according...
Wednesday 6 July 2022
China foundries raise new funds to expand 12-inch fab capacity
Chinese foundry houses including Hua Hong Semiconductor and CanSemi Technology recently have successfully raised new funds to finance capacity expansions at their 12-inch wafer fabs,...
Wednesday 6 July 2022
SMIC, Intel face different constraints in expanding global foundry market shares
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) and Intel are facing different constraints in expanding their presence in the global foundry market while they are on track to...
Wednesday 6 July 2022
IC inspection labs to embrace strong 3Q22
Slowdowns in handsets and other consumer electronics areas have prompted brand device vendors to accelerate their pace of inventory correction, but the vendors and core chip suppliers...
Tuesday 5 July 2022
IC design houses brace for weak 3Q22
IC design houses are bracing for a particularly weak third-quarter 2022 while also having difficulty negotiating lower foundry quotes, according to industry sources in Taiwan.
Tuesday 5 July 2022
Taiwan pure-play foundries stay firm on prices
Taiwan-based pure-play foundries intend to stay firm on prices, despite a cutback in orders for display driver ICs and other consumer chips, according to industry sources.
Monday 4 July 2022
Specific chip segments poised to embrace strong 3Q22
Despite chip demand for consumer electronics showing no signs of recovery, vendors of quite a few chip segments such as server ICs, automotive chips, high-speed transmission ICs,...
Thursday 30 June 2022
KYEC on track to post revenue growth in 2022
IC testing house King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) expects to post revenue growth in 2022, as strong demand for automotive and industrial chips will offset weakness in demand for consumer...
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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