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Monday 7 November 2022
Winbond sees 3Q22 profit hit 6-quarter low
Winbond Electronics, a maker of specialty DRAM and flash memory, has reported net profits falling 48.2% sequentially to a six-quarter low of NT$2.67 billion (US$83.1 million) in the...
Friday 4 November 2022
Apple to keep Qualcomm chips in 2023 in turnabout
Qualcomm will continue to provide the modem chips for the "vast majority" of iPhones in 2023, a turnabout for a company that had expected to lose the business to Apple Inc.'s homegrown...
Friday 4 November 2022
Elan cancels LTA with chip foundry due to feeble notebook demand
Notebook touchscreen chip maker Elan Microelectronics expects its operation to continue facing a decline in the fourth quarter of 2022 because of weak notebook demand, while the company...
Thursday 3 November 2022
SEMICON China Forum: Find ways out under US trade ban
High-profile semiconductor industry leaders in China recently gathered at the just-ended SEMICON China Executive Summit seeking to find ways out for China's future IC development...
Thursday 3 November 2022
Silicon Motion gearing up for PCIe Gen5 SSD controller sampling
Silicon Motion Technology is scheduled to start sampling its enterprise-class PCIe Gen5 SSD controller series in early 2023, followed by volume production at the end of next year,...
Thursday 3 November 2022
Leaders in semiconductor in 2030 (10): Golden decade vs perfect storm
MediaTek chairman Ming-Kai Tsai has noted that we often overestimate the short-term benefits and underestimate the long-term business opportunities. In 1998 when he started his business,...
Thursday 3 November 2022
DDI backend firms see warehouses filled with 'wafer bank'
Display driver IC (DDI) backend specialists are finding their warehouses filled with "wafer bank" inventories from fabless chipmaker customers that are keeping their inventory at...
Thursday 3 November 2022
DDI suppliers continue to see inventory swell
Display driver IC suppliers have substantially scaled back wafer starts at foundries, but the efforts are still insufficient to reduce their inventory levels, according to industry...
Wednesday 2 November 2022
Taiwan-Asia Semiconductor supplies short-wave IR LED devices used in Apple Watch 8
LED chip maker Taiwan-Asia Semiconductor (TAS, renamed from Opto Tech) is the exclusive supplier of short-wave infrared (IR) LED devices used in the body temperature sensor of Apple...
Wednesday 2 November 2022
SiFive releases high-performance processors for small-size, high-volume applications
RISC-V computing startup SiFive, Inc., announced two new products that address the need for high performance and efficiency in small-size, high-volume applications like wearables,...
Wednesday 2 November 2022
Automotive chip demand drives NXP revenue growth in 3Q22
Thanks to a diversified product portfolio across consumer, industrial, and automotive, NXP reported better-than-expected third-quarter revenue amid a rapidly ending boom of the semiconductor...
Wednesday 2 November 2022
AMD 3Q22 result shows server, gaming biz growth offsets PC weakness
AMD announced 3Q22 revenue of US$5.6 billion on November 1, up 29% year-on-year. Analysts remain optimistic about its ability to continue growing market shares in the server market...
Wednesday 2 November 2022
Taiwan ABF substrate suppliers to embrace sales growth in 4Q22
Taiwan-based IC substrate specialists Unimicron Technology, Nan Ya PCB, and Kinsus Interconnect Technology are poised to generate sequential revenue increases in the fourth quarter...
Wednesday 2 November 2022
GlobalWafers upbeat about long-term silicon wafer demand
Silicon wafer maker GlobalWafers remains upbeat about semiconductor demand in the long term, particularly demand for automotive and industrial device applications.
Wednesday 2 November 2022
Samsung to increase panel purchases from non-China-based suppliers
Samsung Electronics plans to increase its purchases of LCD panels in 2023 from non-China suppliers, such as Taiwan-based AU Optronics and Innolux, according to industry sources.