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Tuesday 9 August 2022
IC design houses striving to clear inventory by end-2022
Taiwan-based IC design houses are all striving to clear inventory by the end of this year while also seeking to defer schedules for fulfilling LTAs (long term agreements) with foundry...
Tuesday 9 August 2022
Inflation hurts India smartphone demand, MediaTek's share drops to nearly two-year low
India's smartphone shipments in the latest quarter grew only slightly year-on-year amid global inflation, while MediaTek's chip share dropped to below 50% for the first time since...
Tuesday 9 August 2022
Qualcomm to double chip purchase through long-term agreement with GF
At the CEO Summit hosted by GlobalFoundries (GF), Ford Motor Company and Applied Materials in Washington DC, Qualcomm Technologies announced the extension of their existing strategic...
Tuesday 9 August 2022
TSMC to see Apple orders generate over NT$500 billion in 2022
TSMC is expected to see chip orders placed by Apple generate more than NT$500 billion (US$16.6 billion) in 2022 when the pure-play foundry will see its revenue top NT$2 trillion,...
Monday 8 August 2022
Novatek expects sharp declines in 3Q22 sales
Driver IC (DDI) design house Novatek Microelectronics has a bleak outlook for third-quarter 2022 mainly because global demand for TVs, smartphones and notebooks remains weak, according...
Monday 8 August 2022
TSMC's future R&D initiatives revealed in VLSI Symposium
The world's largest semiconductor foundry service provider, TSMC, shared innovations beyond its current roadmaps to illustrate technology innovation at system and product level, and...
Monday 8 August 2022
PC chipmakers Intel, AMD, Nvidia lower shipment goals amid sluggish demand
Major PC core chips suppliers Intel, AMD and Nvidia have all revised downward their 2022 shipment or revenue projections along with brand device vendors successively lowering their...
Monday 8 August 2022
Samsung to start manufacturing semiconductor parts in Vietnam in 2023
Samsung Electronics has confirmed that it is preparing for the trial production of flip-chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) in Vietnam and plans to start mass production in July 2023 at...
Friday 5 August 2022
Samsung 3nm node progresses as S Korea evaluates China exposure
Samsung Electronics officially began chip production using its latest 3nm Gate-All-Around (GAA) process node on June 30, and went on to celebrate the first shipment of GAA-based chips...
Friday 5 August 2022
PCB drill bit maker Topoint sees flat performance for 3Q22
Taiwan-based Topoint Technology, dedicated to supplying PCB drill bits and drilling services, expects its third-quarter revenues to see a flat sequential growth at best, as most of...
Friday 5 August 2022
DDI backend specialists strive to maintain capacity utilization
Display driver IC (DDI) backend specialists are striving to maintain their fab capacity utilization, bracing for a tough second half of 2022, according to industry sources.
Friday 5 August 2022
Micron and WD proposes to form memory coalition amid fierce competition with China and Korea
Micron, the world's third largest memory chip manufacturer, announced on August 4 to jointly propose a Memory Coalition of Excellence (MCOE) with Western Digital (WD), another US...
Friday 5 August 2022
NXP, Inventec team up for automotive electronics ecosystem in Taiwan
Automotive IC vendor NXP Semiconductors and ODM Inventec have announced they are teaming up to create an industry ecosystem locally in Taiwan for automotive electronics products.
Friday 5 August 2022
Samsung cuts TV panel procurement target for 2022
Samsung Electronics reportedly has lowered its LCD TV panel procurement target for this year to 35 million units from the previous amount of 47 million units and has stepped up efforts...
Friday 5 August 2022
Elan to see 3Q22 revenue fall about 30%
Taiwan-based Elan Microelectronics, specializing in touchscreen controllers for PC applications, expects to see its third-quarter revenue fall 28-32% sequentially with flat growth...