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Friday 21 June 2019
Semiconductor equipment billings increase in May
Billings among North American manufacturers of semiconductor production equipment registered another sequential increase in May.
Thursday 20 June 2019
FineMat making headway in China OLED display market
Taiwan-based FineMat Applied Materials, a maker of common metal masks (CMM) needed for OLED panel production, has been making headway in China's OLED segment, according to company...
Wednesday 19 June 2019
Highlights of the day: Smartphone market woes
The US-China trade war has put Huawei, and in general the smartphone market, in limbo. Huawei has sharply cut orders...
Wednesday 19 June 2019
FPCB maker Flexium tapping 5G, IoT application opportunities
Flexible PCB specialist Flexium Interconnect is looking to explore more application opportunities for its products beyond handsets, especially those for use in 5G and IoT devices,...
Wednesday 19 June 2019
US companies dominate 2018 IC sales, says IC Insights
US-headquartered companies held 52% of the total worldwide IC market in 2018, followed by their fellow South Korea-based companies with a 27% share, according to IC Insights.
Wednesday 19 June 2019
China sees Taiwan supply chain as alternative to IDMs for power IC devices
China ICT makers are keen on turning to Taiwan supply chain as they seek alternative import sources of discrete power semiconductor devices, especially medium- and high-end ones long...
Wednesday 19 June 2019
Wus positive about PCB demand for automotive, network equipment
PCB manufacturer Wus Printed Circuit has put increased focus on high-end offerings including those for automotive and network equipment applications, and the efforts are bearing fr...
Wednesday 19 June 2019
Order visibility for mobile chips unclear, says sources
The order visibility for Taiwan-based IC design houses for the third quarter of 2019 is unclear with prospects of seeing demand from the handset sector further soften later on, as...
Wednesday 19 June 2019
Sitronix subsidiary debuts on Taiwan emerging stock market
Sensor component specialist Sensortek Technology, in which Sitronix Technology holds a 50.44% stake, started trading on Taiwan's emerging stock market on June 18.
Wednesday 19 June 2019
TSMC to kick off shipments for new Xilinx 7nm chips
TSMC will soon enter volume shipments for new Xilinx adaptive compute acceleration processors manufactured using 7nm process technology, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 18 June 2019
STAr Sagittarius-SPT with Korea major semiconductor manufacturer
STAr Technologies Inc. received orders from Korea major semiconductor manufacturer for automatic test system - Sagittarius-SPT (Silicon Photonic Test, SPT) to manufacture its future...
Tuesday 18 June 2019
PCB supply chain moves to counter weakening Huawei handset shipments
As Huawei's handset shipments are expected to fall significantly on US trade ban, Taiwan PCB makers have moved to carry out risk diversification deployments by enhancing shipments...
Tuesday 18 June 2019
Renesas says next-generation AI chips achieves processing performance of 8.8 TOPS/W
Renesas Electronics has announced it has developed an AI accelerator that performs CNN (convolutional neural network) processing at high speeds and low power to move towards the next...
Tuesday 18 June 2019
Nvidia brings Cuda to Arm
Nvidia has announced its support for Arm CPUs. Nvidia is making available to the Arm ecosystem its full stack of AI and HPC software - which accelerates more than 600 HPC applications...
Monday 17 June 2019
Korea flexible OLED panel production capacity to increase over 20% in 4Q19, says Digitimes Research
The combined capacity of flexible OLED panels of 6G and below processes of Samsung Display and LG Display is expected to expand 22.2% on year in the fourth quarter of 2019 thanks...