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Monday 26 August 2019
CCL, IC substrate and flexible PCB demand to boom in 5G era
Chip and component demand for 5G related applications, including network equipment, and antennas for handsets and IoT devices, is set to grow robustly starting 2020. In the PCB industry...
Monday 26 August 2019
Innolux launching bezel-less flexible panels, underwater touch modules
Innolux is to showcase its latest display products including flexible panels and innovative underwater touch modules at the upcoming Touch Taiwan 2019 tradeshow.
Friday 23 August 2019
Intel launches new-generation 14nm mobile chips
Intel has introduced eight new mobile processors that are based on its 14nm Comet Lake architecture, under its U and Y series for ultra-thin notebooks and over 90 new ultra-thin notebooks...
Friday 23 August 2019
PCB makers to gain from enlarged mainboards for 5G smartphones
As mainboards for 5G smartphones will surely be enlarged significantly to accommodate many more RF (radio frequency) modules, Taiwan-based PCB makers including Zhen Ding Technology,...
Friday 23 August 2019
Taiwan small- to mid-size panel shipments to drop in 3Q19, says Digitimes Research
Taiwan's shipments of small- to medium-size LCD panels are expected to drop 3.1% on quarter and 43.9% on year in the third quarter of 2019 as demand for such panels from the feature...
Friday 23 August 2019
Taiwan semiconductor foundry sector, 2Q19
According to Digitimes Research's observation, with global market demand on a moderate increase in second-quarter 2019, Taiwan-based semiconductor foundries showed recovery. Taiwan...
Friday 23 August 2019
North America semi equipment industry billings up slightly, says SEMI
Billings among North American manufacturers of semiconductor production equipment grew slightly on month, but posted a year-over-year decline for the 9th consecutive month in July,...
Friday 23 August 2019
Xilinx intros FPGA featuring 9 million system logic cells
Xilinx has announced the expansion of its 16nm Virtex UltraScale+ family to now include what the company claims is the world's largest FPGA, the Virtex UltraScale+ VU19P, with 35...
Thursday 22 August 2019
Elan eyes record revenues for 3Q19
Taiwan-based IC designer Elan Microelectronics expects its third-quarter 2019 revenues to hit a new quarterly high on a notable sequential increase to be driven by demand for stylus...
Thursday 22 August 2019
Taiwan LCD monitors – 2Q 2019
Taiwan PC monitor shipments continued their on-year growth momentum in the second quarter of 2019, but the increase slowed to only 4.5% with the volume reaching 21.98 million units...
Thursday 22 August 2019
Unisoc to roll out 7nm 5G chip in 2020
Unisoc Communications, Tsinghua Unigroup's chipmaking arm, has had its 7nm 5G baseband chip proceed to the customer validation stage, according to a media report from China.
Thursday 22 August 2019
Top-15 semiconductor suppliers see combined sales fall 18% in 1H19, says IC Insights
IC Insights has released its list of the world's top-15 semiconductor suppliers in the first half of 2019, and identified Sony as the only company registering year-over-year growth...
Wednesday 21 August 2019
Japan PCB industry output value drops in 1H19
The output value of Japan's PCB industry dropped 6.9% from a year earlier to JPY219.79 billion (US$2.06 billion) in the first half of 2019, with that of the flexible PCB sector experiencing...
Wednesday 21 August 2019
IC material distributors positive about 5G-driven demand
Semiconductor materials distributors Wahlee Industrial and Topco Scientific are both optimistic that strong demand for high-end engineering plastics, silicon wafers and photoresist...
Wednesday 21 August 2019
ChipMOS, OSE to post sales growth in 2H19
A ramp-up in orders for NAND flash memory will boost revenues at backend houses ChipMOS Technologies and Orient Semiconductor Electronics (OSE) in the second half of 2019, according...