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Tuesday 8 February 2022
Infineon aims to ramp up in-house production in 2022
German-based automotive and power semiconductor supplier Infineon is planning to ramp up in-house production in 2022 as it expects semiconductor demand to continue to outweigh the...
Tuesday 8 February 2022
Increased functionality, NEV growth drive automotive chip demand
Increased functionality and the emergence of new energy vehicles (NEVs) are intensifying the automotive chip shortage, according to supply chain companies.
Tuesday 8 February 2022
Mirle fulfills NT$1 billion worth of orders from AUO
AU Optronics (AUO) has announced the purchase of a batch of equipment from Mirle Automation for NT$1.02 billion (US$36.6 million).
Tuesday 8 February 2022
Highlights of the day: Apple suppliers during holiday reportedly for new MacBook Pro
Apple's suppliers were kept busy during the Lunar New New holiday reportedly making new MacBook Pro set for launch...
Tuesday 8 February 2022
Intel embraces RISC-V for foundry service business opportunities
Intel announced a new US$1 billion fund on February 7 to build a foundry innovation ecosystem and will collaborate with several RISC-V standard IC design firms. Meanwhile, RISC-V...
Tuesday 8 February 2022
Wi-Fi chip vendors working closely with foundries
Wi-Fi core chip suppliers, including MediaTek and Realtek Semiconductor, have moved to work more closely with their foundry partners, eyeing a more significant market share this year,...
Tuesday 8 February 2022
MediaTek, Qualcomm to decrease 4G AP shipments
MediaTek expects the proportion of AP shipments for 4G smartphones to progressively decrease in 2022 because it is allocating increasing operational resources for 5G AP and ICs used...
Tuesday 8 February 2022
Faraday monthly revenue tops NT$1 billion
Taiwan-based Faraday Technology, a fabless ASIC service and silicon IP provider partnering mainly with United Microelectronics (UMC), saw its monthly revenue exceed NT$1 billion (US$35.9...
Tuesday 8 February 2022
UMC buys nearly NT$6 billion worth of equipment from Applied Materials
Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) has acquired nearly NT$6 billion (US$215.4 million) worth of machinery equipment from Applied Materials, according to company filings...
Monday 7 February 2022
Highlights of the day: GlobalWafers unveils expansion plan
GlobalWafers has unveiled a US$3.6 billion capacity expansion plan after its proposed acquisition of Siltronic fell...
Monday 7 February 2022
MediaTek readies growth roadmaps for next three years
MediaTek has completed its growth plan for the next three years, and plans to achieve medium double-digit sales increases in multiple product lines rather than just handset SoCs,...
Monday 7 February 2022
Industry watch: CPU battle heating up
In the 1990s, Intel, the peerless CPU market leader, even produced motherboards, challenging Taiwan's motherboard makers. Was Intel really interested in making motherboards? Certainly...
Friday 4 February 2022
IC designers optimistic about shipment prospects for 2022
Demand for IC design services will continue to outweigh the supply (at least in the first half of 2022), while shipment prospects for the second half of the year will become clearer...
Friday 4 February 2022
Toshiba regards Thailand as manufacturing hub of discrete semiconductors
Toshiba Semiconductor (Thailand) is an important contributor to Toshiba's network of companies which provide a robust supply of discrete semiconductors. As Toshiba's largest semiconductor...
Thursday 3 February 2022
India's wafer subsidy 'too little to make progress'
The Indian government is offering subsidies totalling INR760 billion (US$10 billion) for local manufacturing of semiconductors and panels. The initial subsidies might suffice to set...