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Monday 26 September 2016
Rising notebook demand causing shortages in many components
With demand for notebooks stronger than expected and notebook component suppliers conservative about their shipments, several components including panel, battery and solid state drive...
Monday 26 September 2016
China HLMC to build new 12-inch fab
Shanghai Huali Microelectronics (HLMC) is expected to announce by the end of 2016 the construction of its second 12-inch plant, which will directly enter 28nm production, according...
Monday 26 September 2016
SES-imagotag to acquire Pervasive Displays
France-based SES-imagotag and Taiwan-based Pervasive Displays (PDi) have signed a deal under which SES-imagotag will acquire 100% of PDi, according to the companies.
Monday 26 September 2016
Cadence, TSMC advance 7nm FinFET designs for mobile and HPC platforms
Cadence Design Systems has announced several important deliveries in its collaboration with TSMC to advance 7nm FinFET designs for mobile and high-performance computing (HPC) platf...
Friday 23 September 2016
Value of semiconductor industry M&A agreements already over US$50 billion, says IC Insights
After an historic surge in semiconductor merger and acquisition agreements in 2015, the torrid pace of transactions has eased (until recently), but 2016 is already the second-largest...
Friday 23 September 2016
Chip orders for new iPhone to fall in 1Q17, sources say
Chip orders placed for the iPhone 7/7 Plus will likely fall about 20% sequentially in the first quarter of 2017, according to an estimate made by analog chip suppliers.
Friday 23 September 2016
Shanhai Capital to acquire Analogix Semiconductor
China-based Beijing Shanhai Capital Management announced that it has entered into a merger agreement with Analogix Semiconductor under which a consortium led by Shanhai Capital will...
Friday 23 September 2016
Phison board approves consolidation of company and offshore units
Taiwan-based Phison Electronics' board of directors has approved plans to obtain 100% of its offshore business Everspeed and all the units under Everspeed including Memoryexchange...
Thursday 22 September 2016
MediaTek likely to roll out 2 10nm chip versions, says report
MediaTek is considering rolling out two versions of its 10nm chips, the Helio X30 for high-end smartphones and the X35 for the lower-end segment, according to a Chinese-language Economic...
Thursday 22 September 2016
M31 partnering with TSMC to offer MIPI PHY solutions
Silicon IP provider M31 has announced the development of its new MIPI M-PHY Gear3 IP on TSMC's 40LP and 28nm HPC+ process nodes. The 40LP M-PHY has been widely adopted by customers...
Thursday 22 September 2016
Backend firms seeing tight supply
IC backend houses have recently seen their supply fall short of demand as their delivery times have extended to more than two weeks, up from 4-7 days, according to industry sources...
Wednesday 21 September 2016
China SITRI 8-inch fab ready for MEMS manufacturing
The government-sponsored Shanghai Industrial Technology Research Institute (SITRI) has its 8-inch wafer fab targeted specifically at the manufacture of MEMS parts with volume production...
Wednesday 21 September 2016
iPhone 7 materials costs higher than previous versions, IHS says
The bill of materials (BOM) for an iPhone 7 equipped with 32GB of NAND flash memory carries US$219.80 in bill of materials costs, according to a preliminary estimate from IHS Marki...
Wednesday 21 September 2016
Cadence delivers tools for implementation and signoff of new ARM Cortex-R52 CPU
Cadence Design Systems has announced the availability of a Cadence Rapid Adoption Kit (RAK) for the new ARM Cortex-R52 CPU, which targets complex embedded designs for safety applications...
Tuesday 20 September 2016
China-based GigaDevice reportedly buys plant from Memoright
Beijing-based GigaDevice Semiconductor has reportedly taken over a Memoright plant located in Wuhan, which could pave the way for the China-based NOR flash vendor to step into the...