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Friday 3 September 2021
Rising quotes proposed by Taiwan foundries unlikely to affect foreign chip clients pricing strategy
China- and Taiwan-based fabless chipmakers have been raising their chip prices to reflect rising foundry costs since 2021, and are mulling another price hikes later this year and...
Friday 3 September 2021
Taiwan PCB supply chain players gearing up for fundraising
Taiwan's makers in the PCB supply chain are gearing up for fundraising in order to carry out their capacity expansions and new technology development projects, according to industry...
Friday 3 September 2021
Qualcomm remains high-end smartphone AP market leader
Qualcomm remained the largest supplier of high-end 5G smartphone application processors in the first half of 2021, according to Digitimes Research. But MediaTek is gearing up for...
Friday 3 September 2021
MediaTek likely to post revenue decrease in 4Q21
MediaTek is likely to see its revenues fall sequentially, for the first time in more than one year, in the fourth quarter of 2021, given that its fulfillment of orders for the quarter...
Friday 3 September 2021
Production of upcoming MacBook Pro ramping up slow
Production for Apple's next-generation MacBook Pros is slow due to shortages of miniLED chips and other ICs and may require at least one month to ramp up to an appropriate pace, according...
Friday 3 September 2021
GaAs foundry AWSC mulls price hike
GaAs foundry Advanced Wireless Semiconductor Company (AWSC), which already made upward adjustments in its quotes earlier this year, is mulling another price hikes in the first half...
Thursday 2 September 2021
Suppliers eyeing demand boom for high-speed transmission chip solutions
Taiwan's vendors of transmission interface chip solutions are stepping up the development and production of high-speed solutions such as Wi-Fi 6E, PCIe4.0/5.0 controller chips and...
Thursday 2 September 2021
Chip shortages may defer rollout of upcoming MacBook Pros
The ongoing chip shortages that are in varying degrees may cause the launch of Apple's upcoming miniLED-backlit MacBook Pros to be scheduled in October or even November, instead of...
Wednesday 1 September 2021
Taiwan LCD monitors – 2Q 2021
Taiwan's PC monitor shipments did not grow as Digitimes Research anticipated in May and instead they went down nearly 7% sequentially in the second quarter of 2021.
Wednesday 1 September 2021
CCI expects 5G smartphones to drive vapor chamber demand
Overall vapor chamber (VC) demand for handsets has been a disappointment thus far this year, according to Junichi Nagai, chairman for cooling module firm Nidec Chaun-Choung Technology...
Wednesday 1 September 2021
Robust HDI PCB demand for high-end applications fueling capacity expansions
HDI PCB demand has been robust for high-end applications, and major makers including Unimicron Technology, Compeq Manufacturing, and Tripod Technology are planning to enforce capacity...
Wednesday 1 September 2021
Dialog chip selected for Xilinx adaptive system-on-modules
Dialog Semiconductor has announced its power management ICs are selected for Xilinx's new Kria adaptive system-on-modules (SOMs) targeted for vision AI applications in smart cities...
Wednesday 1 September 2021
Taiwan flexible PCB makers expect peak sales in 2H21
Flexible PCB makers including Zhen Ding Technology and Flexium Interconnect expect to see their sales peak for 2021 in the second half, thanks to new orders for flexible antenna modules...
Wednesday 1 September 2021
DDI prices likely to stop rising in 4Q21
Display driver IC (DDI) prices have been rising, buoying suppliers' sales and profitability thus far this year. But prices are likely to stop increasing in the fourth quarter of 2021,...
Wednesday 1 September 2021
Fab toolmakers optimistic about demand from TSMC
TSMC's equipment suppliers remain optimistic about demand from the foundry, which has been stepping up its pace of advanced technology development and capacity expansion, according...