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Wednesday 9 March 2022
MediaTek seeing handset AP inventory swell
MediaTek has seen its inventory level for handset application processors (including 4G and 5G ones) swell to 160-180 days from past regular levels of around 100 days, due mainly to...
Wednesday 9 March 2022
Networking device makers source 16nm chips
Networking device makers including Alpha Networks, Arcadyan Technology, and Gemtek Technology have decided to source 16nm Wi-Fi chips amid tight 28nm process capacity, according to...
Wednesday 9 March 2022
Semiconductor recruiting fever pits MNCs against local giants
Every year in Taiwan, March is the month in which companies start their campus recruiting efforts for fresh graduates. Multinational semiconductor companies such as ASMC, Applied...
Tuesday 8 March 2022
MediaTek eyeing bigger presence in North America
MediaTek is looking to expand its Android smartphone market share in North America with its upcoming 5G mmWave chip solutions slated for launch in the second half of this year, according...
Tuesday 8 March 2022
Taiwan III-V IC makers gearing up for Wi-Fi 7 chip market boom
With RF integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) stepping up the development of power amplifiers (PAs) for Wi-Fi 7 FEM (front-end module) solutions, Taiwan-based gallium arsenide (GaAs)...
Tuesday 8 March 2022
IC design houses seeking long-term contracts with notebook clients
Taiwan-based IC design houses are striving to reach long-term supply agreements with their notebook customers to support the order commitments required by their foundry partners,...
Tuesday 8 March 2022
UMC negotiates higher quotes for new contract with Samsung
Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) has managed to negotiate higher quotes for a new, long-term agreement (LTA) it struck with Samsung Electronics, according to sources...
Tuesday 8 March 2022
Taiwan MCU suppliers see customers start stockpiling
Taiwan-based MCU suppliers have seen their customers start stockpiling amid unstable international conditions, with clear order visibility extended to the end of the second quarter,...
Tuesday 8 March 2022
Will India succeed in chip manufacturing? Industry body weighs in
The recent months have seen a lot of buzz about semiconductor manufacturing in India after the country's government announced incentives to encourage the sector. As many as five companies...
Tuesday 8 March 2022
Political economists' views over Russia-Ukraine crisis, China and semiconductors (Part 2)
DIGITIMES invited Dr. Ming-chin Monique Chu, lecturer in Chinese politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton, and Alex Capri,...
Tuesday 8 March 2022
GF announces next-gen silicon photonics solutions
GlobalFoundries' next-generation silicon photonics platform, GF Fotonix, is available now to address the explosive growth of soaring data volumes while significantly reducing power...
Monday 7 March 2022
Can SMIC help Russia survive tech sanctions?
Governments around the world have imposed harsh export restrictions against Russia to limit its access to semiconductors and other tech goods from overseas. Taiwan and South Korea...
Monday 7 March 2022
Highlights of the day: Predictable changes and unpredictable chaos disrupt markets
Tesla's Model 3 has been selling well, but Tesla's Model Y will probably upstage the Model 3, and meanwhile, the competing...
Monday 7 March 2022
Political economists' views over Russia-Ukraine crisis, China and semiconductors (Part 1)
The Russian invasion into Ukraine caught the world by surprise and we have not seen any sign of Russian attacks subsiding. Half the globe away from the battleground, many pundits...
Monday 7 March 2022
Notebook ODMs see shipments fall short of orders by 20%
Notebook ODMs now still see their shipments fall short of orders by 20% as their production remains constrained by persistently tight supply of power management ICs (PMICs), MOSFETs...