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Wednesday 27 October 2021
MediaTek expects up to 8% revenue drop in 4Q21
MediaTek expects to post flat growth or an up to 8% sequential decrease in fourth-quarter revenue, and has revised its revenue growth outlook for all of 2021 to a 52% surge.
Tuesday 26 October 2021
Highlights of the day: Taiwan firms eyeing third-generation semiconductors
The so-called third-generation semiconductors are promising, and Taiwanese firms, including those from the semicondutor and IT sectors, are gearing up efforts looking to build a strong...
Tuesday 26 October 2021
Holtek says no plan to raise prices for MCUs
Holtek Semiconductor has no plans to raise its MCU and other consumer IC prices despite foundry costs continuing to rise, as Chinese peers are striving to win more orders for small...
Tuesday 26 October 2021
MIH, Arm partner up to build EV ecosystem
Foxconn's MIH will break free from the long-lasting oligarchy built by traditional OEMs in the automotive industry, said CK Tseng, president of Arm Taiwan, at the 2035 E-Mobility...
Tuesday 26 October 2021
Mixed sales performance seen for different chip segments in 2022
IC design houses will see mixed business results for different chip segments in 2022. Vendors of automotive chips, Ethernet controllers, Wi-Fi chips and other networking ICs will...
Tuesday 26 October 2021
GaAs foundries, epi-wafer suppliers remain upbeat about power amplifier demand
GaAs foundries and epitaxial wafer suppliers remain optimistic about demand for power amplifiers, and believe there's no concern about overbooking by customers, according to industry...
Tuesday 26 October 2021
Taiwan strives to create dominance in third-generation semiconductors
Countries around the world continue to respond to zero-carbon emissions policies. The EU proposed its Fit for 55 package, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55%. In...
Monday 25 October 2021
Highlights of the day: India's EV challenge
Electric vehicles have strong potential in the Indian market. But not everyone in the South Asian country is convinced that a market where about 22 out of 1,000 people own a vehicle...
Monday 25 October 2021
Ennostar, TAS developing short-wavelength infrared LED biosensing devices
Ennostar and Taiwan Asia Semiconductor (TAS, formerly Opto Tech) are developing short-wavelength (over 1,000nm) infrared (IR) LED devices for use in biosensing including heart rates,...
Monday 25 October 2021
OSATs to see strong backend orders for car-use MCUs in 2022-2023
International IDMs are set to raise quotes for automotive MCUs in 2022, and their backend partners in Taiwan are all expected to sustain robust backend momentum through 2022-2023...
Monday 25 October 2021
Specialty DRAM, NOR flash supply to remain constrained in 2022
The supply of specialty DRAM and NOR flash memory chips will still fall short of demand in 2022, due to supply-side constraints, according to industry sources.
Monday 25 October 2021
Southeast Asia roundup: Indonesia eyes EV production
Malaysia's chip shortages are expected to persist longer even after lockdown were lifted, while Indonesia is looking to start producing electric vehicle (EV) in 2023-24.
Monday 25 October 2021
Display driver IC inventory swelling
High-tech supply chains are encountering the availabilities of different chips that are in varying degrees. Chips such as display driver ICs (DDI) are no longer in tight supply, prompting...
Monday 25 October 2021
AMD to adopt TSMC SoIC in HPC chips
TSMC's newly-developed system-on-integrated-chips (SoIC) technology will be first adopted for AMD's multiple high-performance computing (HPC) chip series, according to industry sou...
Friday 22 October 2021
Highlights of the day: Micron stepping up capacity advancements
Micron is stepping up expansions of its production capacity, with plans to install EUV tools at its Taiwan fabs in...