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Friday 7 December 2018
Second-tier pure-play foundries to lower quotes
Second-tier IC foundries intend to cut their quotes in order to vie for more orders in the first half of 2019, according to industry sources.
Thursday 6 December 2018
Macroblock cautious about 4Q18, 1Q19
LED driver IC supplier Macroblock is cautious about its business prospects for the fourth quarter of 2018 and first-quarter 2019 judging from a continued slowdown in customer order...
Thursday 6 December 2018
Compound semiconductor firms see unclear order visibility for 1Q19
Compound semiconductor firms are conservative about order visibility for the first quarter of 2019 due partly to Apple cutting orders amid weaker-than-expected sales of new iPhones,...
Thursday 6 December 2018
Samsung Display to shift one 8.5G LCD fab for QD-OLED panels in mid-2019, say sources
Samsung Display reportedly plans to convert one of its 8.5G LCD fabs, the L8-1, into a production base for the development of QD-OLED (quantum dot-OLED) panels with the transition...
Thursday 6 December 2018
GMT to launch tender offer for AAT
Taiwan-based Global Mixed-mode Technology (GMT), a supplier of analog and power management (PWM) ICs, has announced plans to launch a tender offer for fellow company Advanced Analog...
Thursday 6 December 2018
PCB firm Apex revenues top NT$10 billion
Apex International, a provider of PCBs mainly for TVs and other home appliances, saw its cumulative 2018 revenues through November exceed the NT$10 billion (US$326 million) mark.
Wednesday 5 December 2018
TSMC 7nm capacity unlikely to be fully utilized in 1H19, says report
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is unlikely to see its 7nm process capacity fully utilized in the first half of 2019, due to a cutback in orders placed by Apple,...
Wednesday 5 December 2018
Infineon CoolGaN solutions adopted for data center applications
Infineon Technologies has recently released its CoolGaN devices, which have attracted orders from Eltek, a Delta Electronics Group company, for datacenter and server applications,...
Wednesday 5 December 2018
O-film inventory and debts rising
China-based touch panel maker Shenzhen O-film Tech is facing increasing pressure of rising inventories and dwindling orders due to a weak rebound of the handset market in China, according...
Wednesday 5 December 2018
Qualcomm intros 7nm, 5G-ready chip
Qualcomm has unveiled its Snapdragon 855 mobile platform to enable commercial 5G networks and mobile devices in early 2019.
Wednesday 5 December 2018
Semiconductor firms to suffer if US imposes export ban
Trade tensions between the US and China may not seem to have a direct impact on the semiconductor industry, but subsequent developments of the row - if the two giants fail to make...
Tuesday 4 December 2018
US tech control to have more impact on China than tariffs
The trade war between the world's two economic giants has lasted over a year since the US Trade Representative Office initiated in August 2017 a Section 301 investigation into imports...
Tuesday 4 December 2018
Global semiconductor sales increase in October, says SIA
Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached US$41.8 billion for the month of October 2018, up 12.7% compared to year-ago levels and 1% sequentially, according to the Semiconductor Industry...
Tuesday 4 December 2018
Rising popularity of all-screen smartphones stimulating TDDI chip demand
Smartphone vendors intend to promote their all-screen models in 2019 to boost their unit sales amid stagnant global demand for smartphones. With all-screen smartphones adopting TDDI...
Monday 3 December 2018
DNP, Winbond team up for eSIM
Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) has announced it is teaming up with Winbond Electronics to develop eSIM and other secure elements for IoT devices.