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Tuesday 16 January 2018
IC packager Lingsen to benefit from explosive demand for MEMS microphones
With smart speakers emerging as new fashion devices at CES 2018 and global tech giants such as Amazon, Google, Apple and Alibaba rushing to release new products, the global market...
Monday 15 January 2018
IC packager Greatek eyes revenues rise on more international orders in 1Q18
Taiwan-based logic IC packaging and testing specialist Greatek Electronics is expected to enjoy stable revenue growth in the first quarter of 2018 from increasing ratio for orders...
Friday 12 January 2018
Spreadtrum and OmniVision introduce turnkey active stereo 3D camera reference design for smartphones
OmniVision Technologies and Spreadtrum Communications have jointly announced what they call the industry's first turnkey active stereo 3D camera reference design for smartphones....
Friday 12 January 2018
More OLED panel makers to compete for iPhone orders
LG Display and other flat panel makers in Japan and China have been gearing up efforts to develop OLED technology aiming to compete with Samsung Electronics for orders from Apple,...
Friday 12 January 2018
Taiwan equipment makers Acter, Nova upbeat about 2018
As China panel makers including BOE Technology, China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT) are aggressively moving to develop OLED panels, Taiwan suppliers of related engineering...
Friday 12 January 2018
Qualcomm delivers integrated far-field smart audio reference platform for Amazon Alexa
Qualcomm Technologies International has announced that the Qualcomm Smart Audio Platform has been qualified by Amazon for the Alexa Voice Service (AVS). This reference platform incorporates...
Thursday 11 January 2018
With strong foundation in Taiwan semiconductor industry, Spirox expands its China market to provide innovative and comprehensive services
Spirox Corporation, specializing in providing semiconductor testing solutions, celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. As hi-tech industry focus has developed from PC, mobile eras...
Thursday 11 January 2018
Global fingerprint-enabled smartphone shipments hit 920 million units in 2017
Global shipments of smartphones with fingerprint sensors totaled 920 million units in 2017, representing a penetration rate of 64%, and shipments of such smartphones are likely to...
Thursday 11 January 2018
IC analysis service suppliers IST, MA-tek see robust revenues in 2017
Taiwan's dedicated semiconductor materials analysis and IC debugging services providers Integrated Service Technology (IST) and Materials Analysis Technology (MA-tek) have reported...
Thursday 11 January 2018
STMicroelectronics selects Globalfoundries 22FDX to extend FD-SOI platform
Globalfoundries and STMicroelectronics have announced that ST has selected GF's 22nm FD-SOI (22FDX) technology platform to support its next-generation of processor solutions for industrial...
Wednesday 10 January 2018
MediaTek unveils edge AI platform
MediaTek has uveiled its edge computing NeuroPilot AI (artificial intelligence) platform. Through a combination of hardware and software, an AI processing unit (APU ), and NeuroPilot...
Tuesday 9 January 2018
Elan revenues rise on year in December
Elan Microelectronics has reported consolidated revenues of NT$605 million (US$20.46 million) for December 2017, representing a 4.56% drop on month and 12.93% increase on year.
Tuesday 9 January 2018
AMD, Nvidia releases of new GPUs to benefit Taiwan OSAT players
As GPU suppliers AMD and Nvidia showcase their prowess at CES 2018, back-end service providers, such as Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) and King Yuan Electronics, are expected...
Tuesday 9 January 2018
Third-party smartphone AP vendors to face growing hardship in 2018
With smartphone brands including Apple, Samsung Electronics and Huawei already moving to advanced 5nm and 7nm processes for their in-house developed application processors (APs),...
Monday 8 January 2018
Global 3D sensing market to reach US$9-10 billion by 2020
Global market value for 3D sensing technology, which has caught attention since Apple unveiled iPhone X with face-recognition functionality in early November 2017, will increase to...