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Friday 8 April 2022
Eris Tech gains from auto opportunities
Diode products supplier Eris Technology is expected to report a gross profit margin of up to 40% in 2022, thanks to an increase of automotive applications, according to industry so...
Friday 8 April 2022
Testing firms on track to fulfill new product development projects for MediaTek
MediaTek's testing partners including King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) and Sigurd Microelectronics, and IC test interface specialists, such as Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT), WinWay...
Friday 8 April 2022
Chinese EV makers foray into semiconductor and battery
Chinese EV makers are investing in semiconductors and battery packs in order to resolve persisting material shortages. About 10% of the 1,000 car chips used in a NIO vehicle are undersupplied,...
Friday 8 April 2022
Intel CEO visits Taiwan for additional capacity support from TSMC
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has made a short visit to Taiwan and met with TSMC in an effort to secure not only sub-7nm process manufacturing capacity but also additional 28nm and other...
Thursday 7 April 2022
Automotive CIS emerging as new blue-ocean market for supply chain
It seems that CMOS image sensor (CIS) demand momentum for mainstream handset applications has become stagnant amid unclear market prospects, but the automotive CIS segment is emerging...
Thursday 7 April 2022
Samsung expects 50% profit surge in 1Q22
Samsung Electronics has provided its earnings guidance for the first quarter of 2022, estimating operating profits of about KRW14.1 trillion (US$11.6 billion) on consolidated revenues...
Thursday 7 April 2022
III-V IC makers see slowdown as mobile phones lag in 2Q22
Smartphone demand in the second quarter of 2022 continues to be bleak. Inventory pressure and shrinking consumer spending in China's domestic market mean China-based mobile phone...
Thursday 7 April 2022
Huawei continues to optimize in-house developed chip performance
Guo Ping, Huawei's former rotating chairman, has said that the company continues to optimize its in-house developed chip performance by increasing the area and stacking.
Thursday 7 April 2022
India state governments wooing semiconductor investments
With the geopolitical tensions between US and China, the Russian-Ukraine war, and the global chip shortage in recent years, countries, including India, have been wooing chip makers...
Thursday 7 April 2022
SK Hynix and Solidigm unveil their 1st collaborative product
SK Hynix and Solidigm have unveiled their first collaborative product, a new enterprise solid-state drive (eSSD), which combines the former chipmaker's 128-layer 4D NAND flash with...
Thursday 7 April 2022
Unimicron, Nan Ya PCB see Kunshan lockdown slightly affect April revenues
An extended COVID lockdown in Kunshan, China is not much constraining PCB and IC substrate supply from plants there operated by Taiwan-based makers Unimicron Technology and Nan Ya...
Thursday 7 April 2022
China analog foundry startup gains support from Big Fund
Hangzhou Fullsemi Semiconductor, an IDM foundry specializing in analog chips, has raised an undisclosed sum of investment from China's National Semiconductor Industry Investment Fund...
Thursday 7 April 2022
IC prices under increasing downward pressure
IC design houses are under increasing pressure to adjust downward their quotes amid the rising war-induced political and economic risks that are eroding terminal market demand, according...
Thursday 7 April 2022
Global semiconductor sales increase in February 2022
Worldwide semiconductor sales came to US$52.5 billion in February 2022, up 3.4% sequentially and a robust 32.4% on year, according to data disclosed by the Semiconductor Industry...
Wednesday 6 April 2022
Memory firms cautious about end-market demand prospects
Brand vendors, downstream memory module makers and distributors have all turned cautious about end-market demand prospects this year, judging from disappointing sales of consumer...