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Monday 26 October 2020
Highlights of the day: TSMC fast advancing packaging tech
TSMC is fast advancing its IC packaging technology in line with its efforts to extend the relevance of Moore's Law. The foundry's 6th-generation CoWoS...
Monday 26 October 2020
Taiwan makers urged to build high-end IC substrate ecosystem
A sound ecosystem for high-end IC substrates has to be built in Taiwan as such substrates will still have a big role to play in backend services despite the growing demand for substrate-free...
Monday 26 October 2020
Chipmakers may come under inventory pressure in 1H21
Fabless chipmakers, component suppliers and IC distributors have been aggressively scaling up their inventory levels, raising concerns of the semiconductor market having to undergo...
Monday 26 October 2020
PTI eyes new logic IC orders from MediaTek, Novatek, Realtek
Memory backend specialist Powertech Technology (PTI) is aggressively foraying into new logic IC segments such as TV SoCs and handset APs in a bid to offset loss of orders expected...
Monday 26 October 2020
ASMedia expects robust 4Q20 with chipset orders for Ryzen 5000
ASMedia is expected to enjoy strong sales in the fourth quarter thanks to robust orders for chipsets used with AMD's upcoming Zen 3-based Ryzen 5000 processors to be released in early...
Monday 26 October 2020
Taiwan IC design houses eyeing automotive ASICs
Taiwan-based IC design houses are eyeing the growing demand for car-use ASICs, with some having won orders from automakers or their supply chain partners, according to industry sou...
Monday 26 October 2020
Intel faces increasing rivalry from AMD, Nvidia, Apple in core sectors
Intel has agreed to sell its NAND flash and storage business to SK Hynix, but the chipmaker is also facing increasingly intense competition from AMD, Nvidia and even Apple in its...
Monday 26 October 2020
North American semi equipment industry billings post another growth
September billings among North American manufacturers of semiconductor production equipment registered sequential growth for the third consecutive month.
Monday 26 October 2020
Mitsubishi Gas Chemical, Iteq form JV in Taiwan
Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company (MGC) and Taiwan-based Iteq have announced plans to jointly establish a joint venture, of which the former will hold a 51% share and the latter 49%.
Monday 26 October 2020
Driver ICs tight supply: Q&A with Chipbond chairman FJ Wu
The supply of display driver ICs has fallen short of demand, while capacities at 8-inch foundries stay tight. Backend houses are mulling raising their quotes to reflect the tight...
Friday 23 October 2020
Intel reports 3Q20 financial results
Intel has reported third-quarter 2020 financial results, generating US$8.2 billion in cash from operations and paying dividends of US$1.4 billion.
Friday 23 October 2020
IC designers have mixed feelings about good sales of iPhone 12 series
Taiwanese IC design houses have mixed feelings about good sales of the new iPhone series, which could limit sales for 5G Android phones in the short term, according to industry sou...
Friday 23 October 2020
Shipments of 5G and Wi-Fi 6 chips still booming
Taiwan's IC suppliers still see strong order pull-ins for chips supporting production of 5G phones and Wi-Fi 6 network devices in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to industry...
Friday 23 October 2020
Equipment makers to gain from ABF substrate capacity expansions
Taiwan-based equipment makers including Csun Manufacturing and Gallant Precision Machining (GPM) expect strong demand from domestic IC substrates makers now all gearing up to build...
Thursday 22 October 2020
Highlights of the day: MicroLED looks promising
MicroLED looks like a strong candidate to compete with OLED for dominance in the display market in the next decade, says Charles Li, chairman of PlayNitride,...