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Tuesday 26 March 2024
Foxconn subsidiary and MediaTek team up for co-packaged optics devices
Foxconn Interconnect Technology (FIT), a subsidiary of Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn), has partnered with MediaTek to co-develop a groundbreaking 51.2T solution incorporating...
Tuesday 26 March 2024
India on right path in developing semiconductor ecosystem, says experts
Despite initial challenges, industry leaders and experts are optimistic that India is on a trajectory that aligns with developing a robust indigenous semiconductor industry.
Tuesday 26 March 2024
IC design houses optimistic about AI PC chip shipments despite low penetration
Taiwanese IC design houses remain confident about AI PC-related chip shipments in 2024, despite an AI PC penetration rate of 5% at most for the year, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 26 March 2024
TSMC + Japan: win-win situation or mutual exploitation?
At a recent semiconductor forum hosted by a think tank under Taiwan's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), former TSMC R&D Director Konrad Young and various scholars...
Tuesday 26 March 2024
VPEC sees brisk order visibility from data center sector
Epitaxy wafer manufacturer Visual Photonic Epitaxy (VPEC) has seen clear order visibility for data center applications extend into the second quarter of 2025.
Tuesday 26 March 2024
Taiwan's high-tech market prospects promising for next 6 months
Taiwan's high-tech firms are anticipating a demand resurgence spurred by the strengthening economies of the US and China over the next six months.
Tuesday 26 March 2024
Supply-side resource balancing issues to plague AI server supply chain
Despite Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's commitment to meeting all customer demands, supply-side resource balancing difficulties will pose challenges for the AI server industry supply chain,...
Tuesday 26 March 2024
HDI board production in full swing, as replacement cycle for LEO satellites approaches
The low earth orbit (LEO) satellite supply chain covers four main aspects: satellite manufacturing, satellite services, satellite launch, and ground equipment. As companies seek to...
Tuesday 26 March 2024
Foundries may lower prices for mature processes in 2Q24
Speculation has emerged in the chipmaking sector that Chinese and Taiwanese pure-play foundries may cut quotes for part of their mature processes in the second quarter of 2024.
Monday 25 March 2024
Exclusive: Taiwan supply chain helps Micron to achieve early HBM3E mass production
Support from Taiwan's supply chain was behind US memory IDM Micron's successful mass production of its latest-generation high bandwidth memory (HBM) product – HBM3E –...
Monday 25 March 2024
Ayar Labs unveils CW-WDM MSA-compliant 16-wavelength light source for AI infrastructure
Ayar Labs has unveiled what the company claims is the industry's first 16-wavelength light source that complies with CW-WDM MSA. At the ongoing Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) Conference,...
Monday 25 March 2024
Taiwanese III-V semiconductor foundries gain traction among auto LiDAR tier-1s
Carmakers worldwide have rolled out vehicles with advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). Taiwan-based III-V semiconductor suppliers said as the adoption of ADAS and autonomous...
Monday 25 March 2024
'Green inflation' and 'secular stagnation', which will come first to AI?
An electricity price hike in Taiwan may ignite a butterfly effect on the Artificial Intelligence (AI) industry and supply chains.
Monday 25 March 2024
China's Big Fund III may top US$40 billion to bolster domestic chips and equipment self-production
China is aggressively raising funds to support sustained double-digit annual growth in domestic chip production capacity and cultivate homegrown equipment development for import substitution,...
Monday 25 March 2024
IC packaging and testing suppliers coping with electricity price hike
The Taiwanese government decided to raise electricity prices by an average of about 10% starting in April, with industrial electricity prices up by nearly 14%, the third consecutive...