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Friday 8 March 2024
Taiwan-India 2025-2027 research collaboration will span 7 sectors, including AI and semiconductors
Tata Electronics Private Limited (TEPL), a subsidiary of India's Tata Group, is planning to invest US$11 billion to establish India's first 12-inch semiconductor fabrication plant...
Friday 8 March 2024
Taiwan exports to China see record drop in 2023
Taiwan's exports to China (including Hong Kong) decreased by 18.1% in 2023 compared with 2022, the largest decline in history, according to Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council.
Friday 8 March 2024
Taiwanese IC design firms accelerate exit from red ocean markets
Chinese IC design companies have initiated price wars in saturated and highly competitive market categories, leading Taiwanese IC design houses to expedite their withdrawal from these...
Friday 8 March 2024
Chinese foundry to set up production line for HBM memory
Wuhan Xinxin Semiconductor Manufacturing (XMC) reportedly has sent out an invitation to bid for a high-bandwidth memory (HBM) project. This suggests that the Chinese memory sector,...
Friday 8 March 2024
DDR5 adoption to accelerate in 2H24 thanks to GenAI
Penetration of DDR5 in the memory market is poised to accelerate and reach double digits in the second half of 2024, thanks to demand from Generative AI (GenAI), according to market...
Thursday 7 March 2024
Exclusive: Chinese ex-Google employee stole company's AI secrets while moonlighting at Ant Group affiliate
Former Googler Linwei Ding is accused of stealing AI secrets from the US tech giant while secretly working for an Ant Group affiliate just months before Ant announced its own AI di...
Thursday 7 March 2024
US urges allies to squeeze China further on chip technology
The US government is pressing allies including the Netherlands, Germany, South Korea, and Japan to further tighten restrictions on China's access to semiconductor technology, a controversial...
Thursday 7 March 2024
Computex Taipei 2024 to have AMD, Intel CEOs on stage
TAITRA (Taiwan External Trade Development Council) has announced that Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel, will be a keynote speaker at Computex 2024 on June 4. The council earlier announced...
Thursday 7 March 2024
GlobalWafers expects flat revenue growth in 2024
Silicon wafer company GlobalWafers anticipates flat revenue growth in 2024, with the possibility of a minor uptick in the single-digit range. However, due to increased equipment depreciation...
Thursday 7 March 2024
British Nvidia's uncertain future: Graphcore weighs sale amidst financial and geopolitical woes
Amid Nvidia's historic achievement of reaching a market value of US$2 trillion, attention shifts to its rivals.
Thursday 7 March 2024
MediaTek Research releases LLM 'Breeze-7B' to target bilingual environment
Following the release of the world's first large-scale traditional Chinese language model (LLM) in early 2023, MediaTek Research, a forward-looking AI research unit under MediaTek,...
Thursday 7 March 2024
AI server demand to drive 2024 foundry market growth, says DIGITIMES Research
As a result of a prolonged inventory adjustment in the electronics sector and slower economic development in 2023 compared to 2022, DIGITIMES Research forecasts that the global wafer...
Thursday 7 March 2024
Germany in semiconductor spotlight with Taiwan in TSMC JV
Following the recent grand opening of Kumamoto Wafer Fab 1 by Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing (JASM), a joint venture between TSMC and Japan's Sony, Denso, and Toyota,...
Thursday 7 March 2024
Nanya posts over 50% revenue surge in February
DRAM chipmaker Nanya Technology has reported revenue surged 50.6% year on year to NT$3.05 billion (US$96.6 million) in February 2024. Revenue totaled NT$6.11 billion for the first...
Thursday 7 March 2024
Is Taiwan's defense industry up for asymmetric warfare?
As China's National People's Congress holds its annual Two Sessions meeting, the defense budget for 2024 submitted by China's Ministry of Finance has revealed a 7.2% growth to reach...