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Monday 28 March 2016
TSMC and Nanjing sign 12-inch fab investment agreement
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) announced on March 28 that the company and the municipal government of Nanjing, China have signed an investment agreement. This agreement...
Thursday 4 February 2016
Taiwan MOEA approves TSMC 12-inch fab investment in China
The Investment Commission of Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has approved TSMC's proposal to set up a 12-inch wafer fab and a design service center in Nanjing, China...
Thursday 28 January 2016
UMC buys equipment from Lam, Tokyo Electron
United Microelectronics (UMC) has purchased a total of NT$1.96 billion (US$58.4 million) worth of equipment from Lam Research and Tokyo Electron for its 12-inch wafer fab in Xiamen,...
Friday 8 January 2016
UMC buys more equipment for Xiamen fab
United Microelectronics (UMC) has purchased a total of NT$1.98 billion (US$59.5 million) worth of equipment from Murata Machinery and Applied Materials for its 12-inch wafer fab in...
Wednesday 6 January 2016
UMC orders equipment for Xiamen fab
United Microelectronics (UMC) has purchased NT$1.05 billion (US$31.8 million) worth of equipment from KLA-Tencor for its 12-inch wafer fab in Xiamen, according to a company filing...
Thursday 31 December 2015
Scientech to start delivering 12-inch single-wafer process tools to TSMC
Semiconductor equipment supplier Scientech will begin shipping its in-house developed wet benches and single-wafer process tools for the production of 12-inch wafers to Taiwan Semiconductor...
Thursday 10 December 2015
New TSMC fab in China likely to target orders for driver ICs, touchscreen solutions
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) planned 12-inch wafer fab in China could be vying for 16nm chip orders from China's local IC design houses specializing in the...
Monday 7 December 2015
Taiwan MOEA confirms receipt of TSMC application for 12-inch fab in China
The Investment Commission of Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has confirmed it has received an application submitted by TSMC for establishing a 12-inch wafer manufacturing...
Monday 7 December 2015
TSMC applies for 12-inch wafer fab and design service center in China
TSMC today submitted an application to the Investment Commission of Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs for an investment project to build a wholly-owned 12-inch wafer manufacturing...
Wednesday 2 December 2015
UMC Xiamen fab to go online as early as 3Q16, says report
Operations at United Microelectronics' (UMC) 12-inch wafer fab in Xiamen are expected to kick off as early as third-quarter 2016, according to a report from Japan's Nikkei Asian...
Friday 13 November 2015
Taiwan 12-inch foundries offer discounts to attract orders
Taiwan-based IC foundries are encouraging their LCD driver IC and fingerprint sensor clients to accelerate their transition to 12-inch wafers by narrowing the cost gap between 12-inch...
Thursday 22 October 2015
Foundries asking LCD driver IC firms to switch to 12-inch wafers
IC foundries have requested their LCD driver IC clients to upgrade to 12-inch process in order to provide a stable supply for analog ICs, fingerprint sensors, MCUs, mixed-signal ICs,...
Tuesday 20 October 2015
Samsung Xian fab generates CNY11.51 billion in January-August output value, says China paper
Samsung's 12-inch wafer fab in Xian, China generated a total of CNY11.509 billion (US$1.81 billion) in the first eight months of 2015, according to China-based newspaper Xian...
Thursday 17 September 2015
SMIC, China National Fund and Qualcomm sign letter of intent to invest in SJsemi
Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) announced on September 16 that the company has signed a letter of intent with China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund (CICIIF)...
Wednesday 12 August 2015
Taiwan foundries may soon get green light for 12-inch fabs in China, says report
Taiwan-based semiconductor companies may soon be allowed to operate 12-inch fabs in China, according to a recent Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report...