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Wednesday 3 June 2020
SMIC in no position to challenge TSMC, Samsung in next 5 years
China's major homegrown foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) is gearing up to raise funds to support its development of advanced manufacturing nodes, but...
Wednesday 3 June 2020
Highlights of the day: PS5 supply chain remains upbeat
Sony has postponed the launch of PS5, but makers in its supply chain remain busy preparing shipments for the client's next-generation games console. Backend partners say SoC...
Wednesday 3 June 2020
Elan reports record sales on growing touchscreen chip shipments
Elan Microelectronics, which supplies touchscreen controllers, touchpad modules, stylus chips and fingerprint sensors for IT and mobile applications, has reported record-high sales...
Wednesday 3 June 2020
Rising stay-at-home economy results in USB chip shortages
Owing to the uprising stay-at-home economy, Taiwan-based chip suppliers have seen increased orders from clients for USB chips used in peripherals such as earphones, microphones and...
Wednesday 3 June 2020
PS5 online launch delay little affects upstream PCB shipments
Taiwan PCB and IC substrate makers in the supply chain of PlayStation 5 (PS5) will see their shipments remain unaffected despite Sony announcing a delay in a planned June 4 online...
Wednesday 3 June 2020
PS5 processor shipments to kick off in June, peak in 3Q20
Backend IC packaging and testing service providers will begin shipments of the customized SoCs designed by AMD specifically for PlayStation 5 (PS5) to their downstream partners in...
Tuesday 2 June 2020
Highlights of the day: TSMC braces for Huawei ban impacts
The US sanctions against Huawei will not affect only the Chinese tech giant. Its supply chain partners, particularly TSMC,...
Tuesday 2 June 2020
ZTE to join the club for foldable smartphones
ZTE is set to join the club for foldable smartphones as information available at China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) reveals that the company has applied for...
Tuesday 2 June 2020
Taiwan IC testing houses see RF chips orders spike from IDMs
Taiwan-based IC testing houses including King Yuan Electronics (KYEC), Sigurd Microelectronics and Ardentec have seen orders for RF chips ramp up recently from Taiwanese IC designers...
Tuesday 2 June 2020
Networking to drive ABF substrate market growth in 2H20
Networking devices, in addition to servers, will be driving the ABF substrate market growth in the second half of 2020 bolstered by growing demand to support remote activities, according...
Tuesday 2 June 2020
Fresh US ban on Huawei to impact TSMC and more starting late September
TSMC and other Taiwanese suppliers of Huawei are expected to see their revenues start to suffer in late September from fresh US sanctions blocking companies around the world from...
Tuesday 2 June 2020
Global automotive CID panel shipments to decline nearly 10% in 2020, says Digitimes Research
Global shipments of automotive CID (central information display) panels (including those for aftermarket but excluding white-box models) are forecast to fall 9.9% on year to 80 million...
Tuesday 2 June 2020
Huawei to procure more chips from MediaTek
Mobile SoC specialist MediaTek is expected to see orders placed by Huawei surge by as much as 300% in 2020 due to the US government's fresh trade ban on the Chinese vendor, according...
Tuesday 2 June 2020
Taiwan LCD monitors – 1Q 2020
Taiwan's PC monitor shipments in the first quarter of 2020 went down 20.5% sequentially.
Tuesday 2 June 2020
Global semiconductor sales slip in April
The global semiconductor industry posted April sales of US$34.4 billion, down a slight 1.2% sequentially, according to Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).