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Thursday 24 March 2022
Elan subsidiary enters supply chain for XR hardware
Eminent Electronic Technology, an Elan Microelectronics subsidiary specializing in the design of fingerprint sensors, has cut into the supply chain for a US vendor's XR (extended...
Thursday 24 March 2022
Egis focuses on notebook sensor ICs for 2022 growth
Egis Technology hopes fingerprint sensor and dToF (direct time-of-flight) ICs used in notebooks and optical sensor ICs used in TWS devices can drive business growth in 2022, according...
Thursday 24 March 2022
Handset TDDI chip prices to fall further in 2Q22
Handset TDDI (touch/display driver integration) chip prices will likely fall more significantly in the second quarter of 2022, as handset sales particularly sales by Chinese vendors...
Thursday 24 March 2022
MediaTek to continue mobile SoC shipments for Samsung midrange handsets
MediaTek will continue to penetrate its 4G and 5G handset APs into Samsung Electronics midrange smartphone models in 2022, allowing its backend partners in Taiwan to benefit and indirectly...
Thursday 24 March 2022
Samsung, Intel keen to take slices of foundry market from TSMC
Samsung Electronics and Intel have both stepped up efforts to expand their respective foundry businesses, eyeing bigger slices of the global foundry market particularly in the advanced...
Wednesday 23 March 2022
Samsung rumored to use MediaTek SoC in upcoming Galaxy phones
Samsung Electronics reportedly will launch midrange- to high-end Galaxy smartphones powered by MediaTek's Dimensity 9000 chipset.
Wednesday 23 March 2022
New Nvidia GPU fabbed by TSMC with 4nm process
Nvidia has announced its next-generation accelerated computing platform with Hopper architecture, dubbed H100 GPU, which is built using TSMC's 4nm (N4) process customized for the...
Wednesday 23 March 2022
TSMC to scale up 5nm chip shipments in 3Q22
TSMC is expected to scale up its 5nm chip shipments to 150,000 wafers monthly in the third quarter of 2022 from about 120,000 units at present, according to sources at semiconductor...
Wednesday 23 March 2022
Global fab equipment spending to grow 18% in 2022, says SEMI
Global fab equipment spending for front-end facilities is expected to grow 18% on year to an all-time high of US$107 billion in 2022, marking a third consecutive year of growth following...
Tuesday 22 March 2022
TSMC to see orders for auto chips ramp up
TSMC is expected to see orders for automotive electronics chips rise at a faster-than-expected pace, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 22 March 2022
NAND flash chipmakers step up controller chip purchases
NAND flash chip vendors including Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology have moved to increase more of their controller chip production to third-party suppliers, such as Phison...
Tuesday 22 March 2022
Server chip and component shortages likely to carry through 2022
Server-use chips and components remain in extremely tight supply, and their shortage will be more severe than that of notebook components and may stay unresolved through the end of...
Tuesday 22 March 2022
SSD control IC shortage to persist through 2022
Tight foundry capacities and shortages of ABF substrates continue to cause solid-state drive (SSD) control IC supply constraints, according to sources at backend houses.
Monday 21 March 2022
Elan gearing up to develop automotive ICs
Taiwan-based Elan Microelectronics, specializing in touchpad controllers for notebook applications, is gearing up to accelerate the development of automotive ICs by gathering all...
Monday 21 March 2022
Silicon wafer suppliers continue to see orders from foundries despite end-market slowdown concerns
Silicon wafer companies and other upstream chipmaking material providers continue to see their production capacities fully utilized by the still strong pull-in of orders from foundries,...