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Tuesday 24 August 2021
Tong Hsing to open new plant in 2022 for processing car CIS, SiC chips
Tong Hsing Electronic Industries, which supplies ceramic substrates and backend services for CMOS image sensors (CIS) and other niche ICs, has held a beam-raising ceremony for its...
Tuesday 24 August 2021
Semiconductor equipment billings rise again
North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers posted US$3.86 billion in billings worldwide in July 2021 (three-month average basis), a record high for the seventh consecutive...
Tuesday 24 August 2021
Taiwan top-3 foundries to see combined revenues surge over 20% in 2021
TSMC, United Microelectronics (UMC) and Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) are forecast to see their combined revenues increase over 10% sequentially in the third quarter...
Monday 23 August 2021
Highlights of the day: Suppliers eyeing Starlink opportunities
Taiwanese suppliers are keen to play a part in the SpaceX's Starlink project, which is expected to create significant...
Monday 23 August 2021
Taiwan suppliers bracing for new business opportunities from SpaceX
There is still quite some distance to commercialization of satellite communications, but Taiwan makers in the supply chain of Starlink, an Internet satellite project by SpaceX, are...
Monday 23 August 2021
China smartphone vendors step up pace of 4G chip orders, say sources
Taiwan-based IC design houses have seen a strong pull-in of orders for 4G mobile chips recently from their China-based handset clients, with the orders being placed at a much more...
Monday 23 August 2021
NAND flash market to regain balance in 2022, says Silicon Motion president
The global NAND flash memory market is expected to reach the balance of supply and demand in 2022, when the overall bit supply growth is expected to stay at about 30%, according to...
Monday 23 August 2021
ASC 100: Thailand's KCE Electronics sees surging demand for car PCB
Thailand's major car component supplier KCE Electronics is seeing significant demand for car PCB and electronics.
Monday 23 August 2021
Dixon and Rexxam team up to produce PCB in India
India's largest EMS provider Dixon Technologies and its Japan-based longtime partner Rexxam are going to manufacture air-con PCB together in India, seeking the Indian government's...
Monday 23 August 2021
IC distributors see order visibility for Wi-Fi chips extend to 1Q22
Taiwan-based IC distributors including Answer Technology (ANStek), GMI Technology, WPG and WT Microelectronics have all seen a strong pull-in of orders for Wi-Fi and other networking...
Monday 23 August 2021
Samsung regains top spot in 2Q21 chip rankings
Samsung Electronics replaced Intel as the number one quarterly semiconductor supplier in the second quarter of 2021, according to IC Insights.
Friday 20 August 2021
Highlight of the Day: Intel's plan to acquire GF gets hindered
The move of GF's plan for IPO is more likely to happen in the near future, which might make Intel's buyout plan vanish...
Friday 20 August 2021
Prices of 4G mobile chips to rise in 2H21
With mobile chip suppliers putting increased focus on 5G solutions, the supply of 4G smartphone chips is being scaled down. Prices of 4G mobile chips will be rising in the second...
Friday 20 August 2021
GF proceeds with IPO plan, likely to crush Intel's takeover bid
GlobalFoundries (GF) reportedly has quietly applied to US Securities and Exchange Commission for an IPO (initial public offering) listing on New York Stock Exchange in late 2021 or...
Friday 20 August 2021
New 3M glass bubbles enable faster, more reliable 5G infrastructure and devices
3M has introduced a new member of its high-strength hollow glass bubbles product line to provide a low-loss high-speed high frequency (HSHF) resin additive for composite materials...