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Tuesday 26 April 2016
Memory IC design house AP Memory to debut on TSE in May
Shares of Taiwan-based memory IC design company AP Memory Technology, a joint venture set up by Powertech Technology and Elite Semiconductor Memory Technology (ESMT), will debut on...
Tuesday 26 April 2016
Parade teams up with Samsung to develop eDP timing controllers for AMOLED panels
Parade Technologies has announced a collaboration with Samsung Display to deliver AMOLED panels for the tablet and notebook markets. Parade, which supplies eDP timing controllers...
Tuesday 26 April 2016
Novatek, Realtek to deal out dividends for 2015
Taiwan-based IC design houses Novatek Microelectronics and Realtek Semiconductor plan to distribute cash dividends per share of NT$9 (US$0.28) and NT$4, respectively, for 2015.
Tuesday 26 April 2016
Toshiba adopts Cadence Innovus implementation system for memory controller design
Toshiba has adopted the Cadence Innovus implementation system for its memory controller's production design project, according to the EDA company. The tool enabled Toshiba...
Monday 25 April 2016
Competition in advanced process technologies market to heat up
Competition in the market for semiconductor advanced process technologies is expected to heat up, with Samsung Electronics and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) striving...
Monday 25 April 2016
Holtek expects 2Q16 sales to rise 15-20%
Microcontroller (MCU) IC design house Holtek Semiconductor expects to post revenue growth of 15-20% sequentially in the second quarter of 2016, thanks to the approaching peak seaso...
Monday 25 April 2016
Digitimes Research: Car-use image sensor market to grow to US$900 million by 2020
Sony is the largest CMOS image sensor vendor worldwide and its products mainly go to the consumer sector. Weakening demand for smartphone has impacted the business's recent performances,...
Monday 25 April 2016
Demand for IC solutions from China robot markers increasing
China-based hardware makers have rushed into the development and manufacture of robot products, offering an opportunity for Taiwan-based chipset vendors to ramp up their shipments...
Monday 25 April 2016
Samsung Display leads in 1Q16 smartphone panel shipment, says Sigmaintell
Samsung Display was largest maker of smartphone panels, shipping more than 80 million panels, in the first quarter of 2016, according to China-based Sigmaintell Consulting.
Monday 25 April 2016
Taiwan university develops aluminum ball bonding technology
While copper wire is considered a cheaper alternative to gold wire for ball wire bonding used in semiconductor packaging, a process based on aluminum wire has been developed by Taiwan's...
Monday 25 April 2016
North American semiconductor equipment industry posts March 2016 book-to-bill ratio of 1.15
North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$1.38 billion in orders worldwide in March 2016 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.15,...
Friday 22 April 2016
TSMC orders equipment for NT$2.29 billion
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has purchased a batch of machinery equipment and intangible assets from Hermes Microvision (HMI), Fortrend Engineering, Kilopass...
Thursday 21 April 2016
MediaTek Labs announces availability of new development platform for RTOS
MediaTek has announced its MediaTek LinkIt development platform for RTOS and the platform's first hardware development kit (HDK). This platform is the first from MediaTek delivering...
Thursday 21 April 2016
Phison to post sequential revenue growth through 3Q16, says report
NAND flash controller IC supplier Phison Electronics is expected to enjoy sequential revenue growth through the third quarter of 2016, and see monthly shipments reach a record high...
Thursday 21 April 2016
Handset supply chains in Taiwan, China face inventory losses
Makers in the handset supply chains in Taiwan and China are becoming more conservative about building up inventories for parts and components due to intensifying competition in the...