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Wednesday 5 October 2022
Equipment supply and demand gap stabilizing for OSATs, IDMs: Q&A with K&S SVP Chan Pin Chong
Automotive chips and power devices continue to see uneven supplies, and Taiwan's leading OSATs including ASE Technology and international IDMs such as Infineon, Renesas, NXP, ST Microelectronics...
Monday 3 October 2022
Taiwanese IC designers strive to seize future trends
The supply chain has changed as competition between the US and China intensifies, but the Taiwan-based IC design industry has not been directly affected. At the start of the US-China...
Monday 3 October 2022
Far EasTone scores points in 5G metaverse accelerator
Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET) established the first 5G metaverse accelerator in Taiwan at the end of 2021 and has seen its startup teams create total potential business value...
Monday 3 October 2022
India roundup: 5G services launched
India became the last major Asian economy to launch 5G services, heralding huge demand for the 5G ecosystem and devices. Pegatron inaugurated its Indian mobile phone manufacturing...
Friday 30 September 2022
Qualcomm steps further toward commercialization of 5G O-RAN
Qualcomm Technologies, a subsidiary of Qualcomm, has begun to send samples of Qualcomm X100 5G RAN accelerator card and Qualcomm QRU100 5G RAN platform to global customers and partners...
Thursday 29 September 2022
Taiwan companies make perfect partners in competitive 5G tech war, says Roger Huang, head of DIGITIMES Research
"Taiwan's ICT companies have a longtime focus on hardware advancement, capable of agile and flexible development to adapt to unprecedented circumstances. For example, the services...
Thursday 29 September 2022
ASE announces building world's first 5G SA mmWave NR-DC smart factory with Qualcomm
Taiwan Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Testing (OSAT) service provider Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Qualcomm announced a two-year project to develop 5G system...
Thursday 22 September 2022
Qualcomm announces new innovation center and 5G education initiative in Southern Taiwan
Qualcomm announced on September 21 to establish the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Southern Taiwan located at Kaohsiung's Yawan 5G AIOT Innovation Park to support local industries and...
Monday 19 September 2022
Taiwan IC design houses keen to develop new chips, defying headwinds
Taiwan's IC design houses including MediaTek, Novatek Microelectronics and Realtek Semiconductor have sharply increased their new development projects for the next 1-2 years despite...
Wednesday 14 September 2022
Indian smartphone brands to fight back amid 4G-to-5G transition
India is waiting for its long-awaited 5G rollout by October, and Indian brands are hoping for a counter-strike in the smartphone market. The key is whether Indian brands have learned...
Monday 12 September 2022
Deployment of 5G private networks to be faced with technology, cost challenges, says Wiwynn executive
While the National Communications Commission (NCC) of Taiwan will release operating licenses for enterprise-use 5G private networks by the end of 2022, deployment of such networks...
Thursday 8 September 2022
IC inspection labs see demand for network chips remain strong
Taiwan's IC inspection and certification labs including Sporton International, Audix and BTL continue to enjoy strong demand for Wi-Fi and other network chips, with order visibility...
Monday 5 September 2022
Jio and Airtel lead in India's expensive 5G battle
After India, the world's second-largest mobile market, completed the 5G spectrum auction in early August, major mobile operators are planning to launch 5G services. However, the high...
Monday 5 September 2022
Chunghwa Telecom to set up outdoor 5G O-RAN n79 private network in southern Taiwan
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) will set up an outdoor 5G O-RAN (open radio access network) n79 (4.4GHz-5GHz frequency band) private network in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, according to CHT.
Thursday 1 September 2022
ABF substrate oversupply emerges
The market for ABF substrates is slightly oversupplied, due mainly to sluggish demand for PC processors and GPUs, according to market sources.