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Monday 17 July 2023
Weekly news roundup: advances in China's ongoing struggle for AI chips and other top stories from the previous week

TSMC seeing more orders from China-based AI chip suppliers

Monday 17 July 2023
TSMC supplier GENIIDEAS to benefit from customers' overseas expansion
GENIIDEAS, a TSMC supplier, has been benefiting from the foundry's expansion in recent years, showing impressive performance. The company stated that the overall order volume is at...
Friday 14 July 2023
I saw "de-globalization" at Semicon China
TSMC founder Morris Chang on July 4 delivered a keynote speech titled "Redefining Globalization," presenting his views on the current geopolitics and posing a question to the audience,...
Friday 14 July 2023
TSMC and Samsung to be less of a duopoly in open foundry market, says Yole Intelligence
As the US is spending tens of billions in attracting investments to solidify its leadership in the global semiconductor ecosystem, analysts forecast the US and its European allies...
Friday 14 July 2023
TSMC likely to post over 10% revenue growth in 3Q23
TSMC will likely post an over 10% sequential revenue increase in the third quarter of 2023, when the pure-play foundry's fab utilization rate will return to more than 80%, according...
Friday 14 July 2023
Backend fab toolmakers see short lead-time orders from TSMC
TSMC has stepped up its pace of orders with backend equipment suppliers, as the foundry commences its chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) packaging capacity expansion plan, according...
Thursday 13 July 2023
Chinese IC equipment maker AMEC wins lawsuit against Lam Research
China's leading semiconductor equipment maker Advanced Micro-fabrication Equipment (AMEC) recently has announced its winning a final court judgment in Shanghai in a lawsuit involving...
Thursday 13 July 2023
Why Taiwan semiconductor firms refrain from enforcing layoffs amid market headwinds
Despite significant sales shrinkages amid lingering economic downturns and market headwinds, there have been no significant layoffs among nearly all the upstream and downstream players...
Thursday 13 July 2023
TSMC fab expansion in Taiwan critical for preserving supply chain advantage
The continuous expansion of TSMC's fab in Taiwan, home to the world's largest pure-play foundry, is essential for preserving the country's supply chain advantages, according to industry...
Thursday 13 July 2023
Intel's customized Gaudi 2 chips for China very likely to be made by TSMC 7 nm process
Intel unveiled its Gaudi 2 China Special Edition deep learning processor in Beijing on July 11 and received almost unanimous praise from Chinese media outlets. In addition to mentioning...
Tuesday 11 July 2023
TSMC's second fab in Kumamoto to start construction in April, 2024 – Report
Japanese media Nikkan Kogyo reported that TSMC has drawn up a plan to start construction of a second wafer fab in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, from April 2024 onwards. The location...
Tuesday 11 July 2023
Foxconn remains committed to expanding chip business in India
Foxconn Technology (Hon Hai Precision Technology) has announced that the joint ventures it set up with the Vedanta Group in India would become wholly owned by Vedanta, with Foxconn...
Monday 10 July 2023
TSMC's 2Q23 revenue reached NT$480.8 billion, close to the high end of forecast
Due to ongoing order adjustments from multiple clients, including MediaTek, TSMC's revenue in June 2023 was NT$1564.04 billion (approx. US$49.82 billion), a decrease of 11.4% compared...
Monday 10 July 2023
Taiwan enhancing semiconductor ecosystem, expecting IC output to top NT$6 trillion by 2030
Taiwan's annual semiconductor output value is projected to surpass NT$6 trillion (US$191.45 billion) by 2030 from NT$4.2 trillion estimated for 2023 for a double-digit CAGR during...
Monday 10 July 2023
TSMC demand buoys MSScorps 2Q23 revenue
IC analysis and inspection lab Material Science Service (MSScorps) witnessed a double-digit sequential revenue spike in the second quarter, with revenue for the first half of 2023...