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Wednesday 22 August 2018
Taiwan has advantages in developing healthcare innovations, says Acorn Campus co-founder Chester Wang
Co-chairman of SVT Angels and co-founder of Acorn Campus Ventures, T Chester Wang taught college courses in Saudi Arabia and invested in real estate in Silicon Valley before he began...
Tuesday 21 August 2018
Samsung extends semiconductor market lead in 1H18, says IC Insights
With the continuation of the strong surge in the DRAM and NAND flash markets over the past year, Samsung Electronics went from having only 1% more total semiconductor sales than Intel...
Tuesday 21 August 2018
Qualcomm, MediaTek gear up for 5G chipset solution market
Qualcomm and MediaTek both have geared up their efforts to promote their 5G solutions in a bid to better their presence in the forthcoming 5G market as telecom operators have begun...
Tuesday 21 August 2018
Taiwan should encourage early-stage investments, says LuxNet chairman Hsing Kung
LuxNet chairman, Hsing Kung, has founded three companies. Among them, SDL was established in 1983, specializing in manufacturing optical communication devices. It was sold for US$41.1...
Tuesday 21 August 2018
Backend firm GEM enjoys strong demand for mid- and high-voltage MOSFETs
GEM Services has enjoyed a ramp-up of orders for mid- and high-voltage MOSFET chips, as the Taiwan-based backend house is engaged in the supply chain of international IDMs which have...
Monday 20 August 2018
Diverse power management IC solutions to affect industries through 2020, says TI manager
Along with the development of data centers, automotive electronics and industrial automation, power consumption has become an issue as crucial as gasoline consumption, prompting power...
Monday 20 August 2018
Taiwan large-size LCD panels – 2Q 2018
Taiwan's large-size panel shipments performed better than expected reaching 62.03 million units in the second quarter of 2018, up 5.5% sequentially and 5.9% on year.
Monday 20 August 2018
Alchip tapes out 7nm ASIC chips
Taiwan-based ASIC design service provider has announced it has taped out its 7nm ASIC chips. It disclosed that with the maturity of 7nm process and the high demand of HPC/AI chips...
Friday 17 August 2018
Taiwan team unveils low-cost AI chip
A team of Taiwan researchers and an IC design house have jointly unveiled a deep-learning image-recognition AI chip whose production cost could be as low as only US$1.
Friday 17 August 2018
Global DRAM sales to top US$100 billion in 2018, says IC Insights
The DRAM market is expected to be the largest of all IC product categories in 2018, repeating the ranking it held last year, according to IC Insights.
Friday 17 August 2018
Weltrend to see 2018 USB PD chip shipments top 50 million units
IC design house Weltrend Semiconductor, having delivered 22 million USB PD (power delivery) ICs in the first half of 2018, is expected to see the shipments for the whole year top...
Friday 17 August 2018
Strong quarters ahead for Taiwan driver IC firms
Several Taiwan-based panel driver IC specialists' efforts to diversify and enhance further their product portfolios are set to bear fruit in the second half of 2018, when these companies...
Friday 17 August 2018
Global semiconductor sales hit record in 2Q18, says SIA
Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached US$117.9 billion during the second quarter of 2018, up 6% sequentially and 20.5% on year, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association...
Thursday 16 August 2018
Wafer front-end equipment billings to drop 24% in 2H18, says Information Network
On the heels of a 37.3% growth in wafer front end (WFE) semiconductor equipment growth in 2017, the market will grow only 10% in 2018 to US$62.3 billion, according to market research...
Thursday 16 August 2018
TSMC sees pickup in orders for mining ASICs
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and its design services partners have recently seen orders for cryptocurrency mining chips pick up, as major crypto mining machine...