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Wednesday 10 November 2021
TSMC, Sony to form JV foundry in Japan
TSMC and Sony Semiconductor Solutions (SSS) have jointly announced plans to establish a joint-venture foundry in Kumamoto, Japan to initially provide 22nm and 28nm process manufacturing...
Monday 8 November 2021
Unisoc sees mobile SoC shipments hike in 3Q21
Unisoc saw its mobile SoC shipments jump 96% sequentially and over 100 times on year to a record-high 4.2 million units in the third quarter of 2021, media reprts have quoted CINNO...
Monday 8 November 2021
TSMC on track to ramp 3nm chip production
TSMC is on track to move 3nm process technology (N3) to volume production in the second half of 2022 as scheduled, and will continue to see its 5nm process capacity fully utilized...
Monday 8 November 2021
China smartphone AP shipments, 3Q 2021
Third-quarter 2021 smartphone application processor (AP) shipments to China-based vendors amounted to 258 million units.
Friday 5 November 2021
Taiwan chipmakers gearing up for automotive IC boom
Taiwan-based foundries and IC design houses are looking to expand their presence in the automotive electronics sector, where chip demand is set to grow robustly, according to industry...
Thursday 4 November 2021
Taiwan pure-play foundries see profitability outperform international peers
Taiwan-based pure-play foundries, led by TSMC, are all poised to generate significant profit increases this year outperforming their international peers including Globalfoundries...
Thursday 4 November 2021
Highlights of the day: Next-gen iPhone chips likely to use TSMC 4nm process
Apple is expected to take a slower approach to moving its iPhone chips to more advanced manufacturing nodes. The vendor is likely to adopt TSMC 4nm process for its next-generation...
Thursday 4 November 2021
LCY Chemical to set up EIPA plant in US
Taiwan-based LCY Chemical, a supplier of TSMC, has disclosed plans to set up a plant for making electronic-grade isopropyl alcohol (IPA) in Arizona.
Thursday 4 November 2021
Apple may adopt TSMC 4nm process in next-gen iPhone chips, sources say
Apple may use TSMC's 4nm process technology for its next-generation iPhone processors, according to sources at backend houses.
Tuesday 2 November 2021
Synopsys and TSMC to develop broad IP portfolio on TSMC N4P process
Synopsys has announced a collaboration with TSMC to develop a broad portfolio of Synopsys DesignWare Interface and Foundation IP on the TSMC N4P process. The collaboration enables...
Tuesday 2 November 2021
China smartphone AP shipments to fall nearly 30% in 4Q21, says Digitimes Research
About 258 million smartphone application processors were shipped to China-based handset vendors in the third quarter of 2021, up 17.9% sequentially, but the corresponding shipments...
Tuesday 2 November 2021
Former US fab head rejoins TSMC
KC Hsu will rejoin TSMC as a director at the company's integrated interconnect and packaging department, with the appointment effective immediately, according to the pure-play foun...
Monday 1 November 2021
Samsung sets to triple foundry capacity by 2026, sparking concerns about potential risks
Samsung Electronics has recently disclosed plans to triple its foundry production capacity by 2026 amid global chip shortage disrupting production in key industries from automobiles...
Monday 1 November 2021
Semiconductors to stay a seller's market through 1H22
After lasting for almost two years, global semiconductor shortage is on track to ease as the pandemic continues to subside in many countries, and semiconductor demand is expected...
Wednesday 27 October 2021
Networking chips supply still far short of demand
The supply of Wi-Fi, Ethernet controller and other networking chips is still falling far short of demand and long delivery lead times can hardly improve in the short term, which will...