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Friday 13 March 2020
Backend, verification demand for HPC chips staying robust
Backend and verification demand for ASICs, AI chips and HPC (high performance computing) chips from segments of 5G base stations, servers and datacenters has remained strong despite...
Friday 13 March 2020
Taiwan design houses embracing robust ASIC orders
Taiwan-based chipmakers are gearing up to fulfill robust orders for ASIC services from clients in China and even from the world's first-tier brand vendors that are seeking to enhance...
Thursday 12 March 2020
Taiwan AI companies develop products in response to coronavirus
Taiwan-based automation solution developer Solomon has cooperated with Denmark-based Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR) to release disinfection robots that could help prevent the spread...
Wednesday 11 March 2020
MediaTek ramping up 5G chip shipments despite outbreak
MediaTek has started ramping up its 5G chip shipments, driving up its revenues for the first two months of 2020 by 25.11% on year to reach NT$30.43 billion (US$1.01 billion), with...
Monday 9 March 2020
Transistor count trends continue to track with Moore's Law, says IC Insights
The primary yardstick by which the IC industry measures its technological performance and progress remains Moore's Law that states there is a doubling of the number of transistors...
Monday 9 March 2020
SiC power devices efficient in EV power charging
SiC power devices used in AC/DC converters for OBCs (on board chargers) - a bridge between PHEVs (plug-in hybrid electric vehicles) or BEVs (battery electric vehicles) and general...
Friday 6 March 2020
Taiwan using national health insurance data to enable AI-based smart medical care development
Taiwan's National Health Insurance (NHI) program under Ministry of Health and Welfare is using big data it collects to train AI in developing smart medical care solutions.
Friday 6 March 2020
AI unicron Appier COO sheds light on success recipes
To build a successful startup, it is essential to start with a domain which the founders are best at and then work out solutions that exactly meet clients' needs, according to Winnie...
Thursday 5 March 2020
Huawei enhancing in-house IC design capability
Huawei has been strengthening its in-house chip design capability aiming to further reduce its dependence on US technology, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 3 March 2020
TSMC, Broadcom enhance CoWoS platform with 2X reticle size interposer
TSMC announced on March 3 the foundry has collaborated with Broadcom on enhancing the chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) platform to support the industry's first and largest 2X reticle...
Monday 2 March 2020
KLA intros new IC metrology systems
KLA has announced the Archer 750 imaging-based overlay metrology system and the SpectraShape 11k optical critical dimension (CD) metrology system for IC manufacturing.
Thursday 27 February 2020
Semiconductor unit shipments to exceed 1 trillion devices in 2020, says IC Insights
Annual semiconductor unit shipments including integrated circuits and optoelectronics, sensors and discrete (O-S-D) devices are forecast to rise 7% in 2020 and surpass one trillion...
Wednesday 26 February 2020
Bank cooperates with research centers for AI application
CTBC Bank has signed with AI technology research center and IoX Center - both under National Taiwan University (NTU) - for one-year cooperation for applying AI technology to banking...
Monday 24 February 2020
Samsung begins mass production at new EUV manufacturing line
Samsung Electronics has announced that its new cutting-edge semiconductor fabrication line in Hwaseong, Korea has begun mass production.
Friday 21 February 2020
EV platforms to help makers hike competitiveness
EV (electric vehicle) platforms, through sharing of basic design, are expected to reduce cost and time spent by individual makers on R&D of new EV models, shorten time to market...