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Monday 3 December 2018
Corning and SCH sign sales agreement for semiconductor glass carriers in China
Corning and SCH Electronics (Shanghai) have jointly announced they have signed a sales agency agreement focused on semiconductor glass carriers in China.
Friday 30 November 2018
Samsung chip capex spending stays high
Samsung is expected to have the largest capex budget of any IC supplier again in 2018, according to IC Insights. After spending US$24.2 billion for semiconductor capex in 2017, Samsung...
Friday 30 November 2018
Worldwide semiconductor revenue hits record US$129.8 billion in 3Q18, says IHS
The global semiconductor industry revenue grew 7.4% sequentially in the third quarter of 2018, reaching a record US$129.8 billion, according to IHS Markit. Semiconductor growth occurred...
Friday 30 November 2018
ASML expands operations in Taiwan
ASML has expanded its operations in Taiwan by opening a new country headquarters in Hsinchu, and plans to grow its total workforce stationed in Taiwan to over 2,500 by the end of...
Friday 30 November 2018
Polarizer makers to gain from China LCD panel capacity increases in 2019
The supply of polarizers has fallen short of demand recently and will stay tight throughout 2019, when several China-based panel makers are set to kick off commerical operation of...
Friday 30 November 2018
Pure-play foundry market visibility appears low for 1H19
Order visibility for the pure-play IC foundry sector for the first half of 2019 appears to be low. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has started negotiating with its...
Friday 30 November 2018
PCB firm GCE swings to profit
Gold Circuit Electronics (GCE) swung to net profits of NT$256 million (US$8.3 million) in the third quarter of 2018 from losses a year ago, thanks to rising fab utilization rates...
Friday 30 November 2018
ASE reportedly to set up IC testing service center in Nanjing
ASE Technology Holding, the parent company of IC packagers Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL), plans to set up an IC testing service...
Friday 30 November 2018
Formosa Sumco to continue running at full capacity in 1Q19, report says
Formosa Sumco Technology (FST), a Taiwan-based manufacturer of 8- and 12-inch semiconductor silicon wafers, is expected to continue running at full capacity in the first quarter of...
Thursday 29 November 2018
MediaTek, Qualcomm upgrading SoCs to drive sales in 2019
MediaTek and Qualcomm both are moving to fabricate their next-generation mobile SoCs with advanced process nodes in 2019 that will support more advanced technologies, as they aim...
Thursday 29 November 2018
China PCB firms expand presence in auto sector
China-based PCB makers have stepped up efforts to grow their presence in the automotive electronics sector since their entry in 2017, according to industry sources.
Thursday 29 November 2018
US-China trade war affecting chip industry growth, says TSMC co-CEO
The ongoing tariff war between the US and China has already had a negative impact on all semiconductor industry sectors, according to CC Wei, co-CEO for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing...
Wednesday 28 November 2018
Semiconductor equipment communication standard sees increasing application
To accelerate the development of communication infrastructure for mechanical networking to support Industry 4.0 applications amid the lack of unified communication standards, Taiwan...
Wednesday 28 November 2018
Intel CPU shortfalls may ease in 1Q19, benefiting Taiwan chip vendors
Taiwan-based IC design houses expect to see a new wave of orders from downstream PC and notebook clients before the Lunar New Year holidays in early February at the earliest, as the...
Wednesday 28 November 2018
IC distributor Edom cautious about 1H19
Edom Technology is cautious about the outlook for semiconductor demand in the first half of 2019, citing unclear visibility of orders for handsets and other consumer electronics de...