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Friday 26 January 2018
Elan gearing up for AI
Fabless IC firm Elan Microelectronics has been involved in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) chips with plans to assign a team of over 100 engineers to enhance further...
Friday 26 January 2018
Taiwan IC designers expected to post substantial revenue growth in January
Taiwan-based IC design houses are expected to post substantial sequential growth in January revenues thanks to a pull-in of orders from China, according to industry sources.
Friday 26 January 2018
Toppan installs advanced photomask equipment at Shanghai plant
Toppan Photomasks has announced that additional investment will be made in new, leading-edge equipment for mass production of advanced photomasks at Toppan Photomasks Company Shanghai...
Friday 26 January 2018
North American semi equipment industry posts strong December billings
North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$2.39 billion in billings worldwide in December 2017 (three-month average basis), according to SEMI. The billings...
Friday 26 January 2018
Semiconductor shipments to exceed 1 trillion devices in 2018, says IC Insights
Annual semiconductor unit shipments (integrated circuits and opto-sensor-discretes, or O-S-D, devices) are expected to grow 9% in 2018 and top one trillion units for the first time,...
Thursday 25 January 2018
Smaller foundry houses upbeat about MOSFET-driven revenues in 2018
Second-tier wafer foundry houses including Episil Technologies, Mosel Vitelic and Hejian Technology are all optimistic about their revenue prospects for 2018 as they have enjoyed...
Wednesday 24 January 2018
Dedicated smartphone chipmakers turning conservative in marketing in 2018
Third-party smartphone application processor providers including Qualcomm, MediaTek and Spreadtrum Communications are expected to adopt a more conservative approach to promoting their...
Wednesday 24 January 2018
Samsung to sell Exynos processors to other smartphone vendors
Samsung Electronics plans to begin selling its in-house developed Exynos mobile processors to other smartphone vendors in order to expand the scale of its smartphone chip platform,...
Wednesday 24 January 2018
Qualcomm to see smartphone AP shipments decline in 2018
Qualcomm's smartphone application processor (AP) shipments are expected to decline slightly in 2018, as top-tier smartphone vendors' in-house-developed APs - which cater to their...
Wednesday 24 January 2018
Commercialized foldable panels likely to come in 2018, says Digitimes Research
Year 2018 could become the beginning of the commercial application of foldable panels as Samsung Display has unofficially unveiled its 7.3-inch foldable (in-folding type) OLED panels...
Wednesday 24 January 2018
Global Unichip reports strong earnings for 2017
Taiwan-based IC design service company Global Unichip (GUC) has announced net profits of NT$854 million (US$29.16 million) for 2017, increasing 54.9% from a year earlier. The earnings...
Tuesday 23 January 2018
TSMC to break ground for 5nm fab this week
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is expected to break ground this week for the construction of its new 5nm fab in the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP), where its...
Tuesday 23 January 2018
TSMC new fab to benefit supply chain partners
With Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) new 5nm fab ready to start construction, its partners in the fields of materials analysis, wafer testing and chemical consumables...
Tuesday 23 January 2018
Higher-end MOSFET chip prices may stay put in 1Q18
With the global PC market entering the traditional slow season and demand from China's automotive electronics market turning weak, medium- to high-power MOSFET chips have seen shipment...
Tuesday 23 January 2018
New MacBook to boost LCM orders for GIS
Touch panel maker General Interface Solution (GIS) is expected to land more LCM (LCD module) orders from Apple, which reportedly plans to release an entry-level 13-inch MacBook in...