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Tuesday 15 March 2022
Coronavirus lockdown in Shenzhen and Dongguan disrupting handset supply chain
China's smartphone suppliers are facing another ordeal after Shenzhen and Dongguan authorities announced week-long lockdowns to curb rising COVID-19 infections.
Tuesday 15 March 2022
India's Tata Elxsi to build EV ecosystem with Japan's Renesas
The Indian design and tech service provider Tata Elxsi aims to build an EV ecosystem in India with the Japanese semiconductor company Renesas. The two companies had recently announced...
Monday 14 March 2022
Production suspended in Shenzhen amid COVID lockdown
The government of Shenzhen, China has imposed a COVID lockdown of the city for a week until March 20, with manufacturers there forced to suspend production.
Monday 14 March 2022
GaN-on-SiC targets base stations in growing LEO satellite market
Amid the ongoing Russian-Ukraine war, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk responded to a public request from a Ukrainian politician to provide Starlink satellite internet services to Ukraine. Ukraine...
Monday 14 March 2022
Silergy to ramp up PMIC shipments for car, server applications in 2H22
Silergy, which is dedicated to supplying power management ICs (PMIC), battery management solutions and other analog power components, expects the shipments of its third-generation...
Monday 14 March 2022
China's automakers seek in-house chip production
To allay the impact of chip shortages, many automakers in China, including Xiaomi, have sought closer cooperation with chip suppliers.
Monday 14 March 2022
Nexchip approved to list on Shanghai STAR
Foundry house Nexchip Semiconductor, a joint venture between Taiwan's Power Semiconductor Manufacturing and the Hefei city government of China's Anhui province, has secured recently...
Monday 14 March 2022
Compeq to embrace strong 1Q22
HDI PCB specialist Compeq Manufacturing is poised to enjoy a particularly strong first quarter of 2022, thanks to improvement in logic chip shortages and a pull-in of customer orders,...
Monday 14 March 2022
SAIC aggressively aiming to operate as RF IDM
China-based Sanan Integrated Circuit (SAIC), a compound semiconductor specialist under Sanan Optoelectronics Group, is actively developing itself into an RF IDM to support the country's...
Monday 14 March 2022
Silicon wafer firm NSIG raises CNY5 billion
China's National Silicon Industry Group (NSIG) announced recently that it has raised an additional CNY5 billion (US$787 million) in paid-in capital through private placement, with...
Monday 14 March 2022
Oppo flexes muscles with self-developed NPUs
Oppo has become the fourth phone brand in China that has developed its own neural processing units (NPUs), while chips developed by Qualcomm and MediaTek have also been adopted in...
Monday 14 March 2022
Qualcomm, BMW and Arriver team up for automated driving software solutions
Qualcomm Technologies, BMW Group and Arriver Software AB have announced a long-term cooperation for the development of automated driving technologies.
Friday 11 March 2022
Highlights of the day: IT firms turning conservative about 2022
With the war between Russia and Ukraine not likely to cease any time soon, IT firms have turned cautious about their operation in 2022. Notebook ODMs, despite still having robust...
Friday 11 March 2022
Ayar Labs announces additional traction for silicon photonics
Ayar Labs has announced it is partnering with Lumentum, the largest manufacturer of optical and photonics products, to deliver CW-WDM MSA compliant external laser sources in high...
Friday 11 March 2022
Russia-Ukraine conflict causing raw material prices to skyrocket
The prices of raw materials such as nickel have skyrocketed after the Russia-Ukraine war broke out, resulting in higher costs for Taiwan-based PCB equipment makers, according to industry...