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Wednesday 10 July 2019
UMC, VIS see June revenues decrease
Pure-play foundries United Microelectronics (UMC) and Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) have both reported sequential decreases in June consolidated revenues of 4.4% and...
Tuesday 9 July 2019
Highlights of the day: Notebook clients less keen to build up inventory in wake of US-China truce
The US and China m ay have entered into a truce to their trade war, but for Taiwan's notebook ODMs that means clients are now less eager to build up their inventory, affecting their...
Tuesday 9 July 2019
Semiconductor supply chain needs at least 3 months to digest inventory
It will take at least three months for global semiconductor inventories to be digested while semiconductor supply chain players are still plagued by overcapacity and clients' conservative...
Tuesday 9 July 2019
Touch module sales outlook to remain bullish in 2H19
Touch module makers TPK Holding and General Interface Solution (GIS) may see sales grow in the second half of 2019 though Apple may remove 3D touch sensors from all 2019 iPhone devices,...
Tuesday 9 July 2019
Apple may add BOE to OLED panel supplier list, says report
Apple may expand its supplier list for OLED panels to include BOE Technology on concerns that Japan's recent restrictions on exports of fluorinated polyimides to Korea might dampen...
Tuesday 9 July 2019
Lite-On Semi revenues pick up in June
Lite-On Semiconductor, a maker of discrete and analog IC components, saw its June revenues increase 6.6% sequentially to a nine-month high of NT$993 million (US$31.85 million).
Tuesday 9 July 2019
Taiwan chipmakers gearing up for 3D sensor market boom
Foundries including Win Semiconductors and Advanced Wireless Semiconductor (AWSC), epitaxial wafer supplier Visual Photonics Epitaxy (VPEC), fabless chipmaker Himax Technologies,...
Monday 8 July 2019
Taiwan upstream suppliers gearing up efforts for OLED panels
A number of Taiwan-based upstream components and materials suppliers have been enhancing their deployments in the OLED panel segment to cash in on the growing penetration of OLED...
Monday 8 July 2019
AMD releases 7nm desktop CPUs, GPUs; server CPUs to come
AMD on July 7 began selling its third-generation Ryzen 3000 series processors along with its RDNA-based Radeon RX 5000 series graphics cards codenamed Navi, both adopting Taiwan Semiconductor...
Monday 8 July 2019
Rafael Micro optimistic about 3Q19
Radio-frequency (RF) chip specialist Rafael Microelectronics expects to post substantial sales and profit increases sequentially in the third quarter, with the growth momentum likely...
Friday 5 July 2019
Backend firms see pickup in short lead-time orders for mining ASICs
Backend houses have seen a pickup in short lead-time orders for crypto mining ASICs recently, driven by significant upturn of Bitcoin prices, according to industry sources.
Friday 5 July 2019
Japan-made chipmaking equipment sales to fall 11% in fiscal 2019, says SEAJ
Sales of Japan-made semiconductor equipment will decline 11% to about JPY2 trillion (US$18.5 billion) in fiscal 2019, which will end a six-year streak of increases, according to the...
Friday 5 July 2019
RichWave posts record June revenues
RF component specialist RichWave Technology has reported record-high revenues of NT$257 million (US$8.3 million) for June 2019.
Thursday 4 July 2019
Highlights of the day: Why did Nvidia switch to Samsung from TSMC?
Nvidia has recently revealed that its next-generation GPU will be manufactured by Samsung on 7nm EUV process. The revelation should not have come as a big surprise, as Nvidia probably...
Thursday 4 July 2019
Qualcomm, MediaTek competing over R&D talent in Taiwan
Qualcomm and MediaTek have both been expanding their R&D deployments in Taiwan and are recruiting local IC design talent keenly with higher-than-average salaries.