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Monday 26 October 2020
Highlights of the day: TSMC fast advancing packaging tech
TSMC is fast advancing its IC packaging technology in line with its efforts to extend the relevance of Moore's Law. The foundry's 6th-generation CoWoS...
Monday 26 October 2020
Chipmakers may come under inventory pressure in 1H21
Fabless chipmakers, component suppliers and IC distributors have been aggressively scaling up their inventory levels, raising concerns of the semiconductor market having to undergo...
Monday 26 October 2020
TSMC may move 6th-gen CoWoS to production in 2023
TSMC continues to advance in CoWoS-S packaging adopting silicon interposer, with the prospect of entering volume production in 2023 for the sixth-generation of the technology that...
Monday 26 October 2020
Intel faces increasing rivalry from AMD, Nvidia, Apple in core sectors
Intel has agreed to sell its NAND flash and storage business to SK Hynix, but the chipmaker is also facing increasingly intense competition from AMD, Nvidia and even Apple in its...
Thursday 22 October 2020
IC design house Sentelic plans Taiwan OTC listing in November
Sentelic, which specializes in fan motor controller ICs for servers, will be listed on the Taiwan over-the-counter (OTC) stock market in mid- or late-November.
Thursday 22 October 2020
A major IC industry cluster formed in southern Taiwan
One of the world's main IC industry clusters is being formed at the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP), where TSMC operates its major manufacturing site for 5nm process technology...
Monday 19 October 2020
TSMC as top HPC foundry to benefit Taiwan ABF substrate vendors
TSMC as a top-choice foundry partner for HPC (high performance computing) chips vendors will significantly benefit Taiwan suppliers of ABF substrates for processing such chips, according...
Friday 16 October 2020
Highlights of the day: TSMC pushing up sales of advanced nodes
TSMC expects revenues from its 5nm manufacturing process to pick up in 2021 with the share to rise from only 8% in...
Friday 16 October 2020
TSMC expects 5nm chip sales to boost in 2021
TSMC CEO CC Wei has reiterated his previous remark that the foundry expects to see 5nm process technology to account for 8% of its total wafer revenues this year. The proportion will...
Thursday 15 October 2020
TSMC expects 2020 revenue to rise 30%
TSMC expects to post revenues of between US$12.4 billion and US$12.7 billion in the fourth quarter of 2020, which is a 3.4% sequential increase at the midpoint. Gross margin and operating...
Thursday 15 October 2020
Shipments of iPhone 12 lineup may top 80 million units by year-end 2020
Shipments of Apple's just-unveiled iPhone 12 lineup may reach as high as 80 million units by year-end 2020, as the vendor's more affordable pricing strategy is likely to entice users...
Wednesday 14 October 2020
Global notebook shipment forecast, 2021 and beyond
Notebook shipments are expected to grow over 20% on year in 2020 thanks to demand from stay-at-home activities in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
Wednesday 14 October 2020
China to have 22% of foundry market in 2020, says IC Insights
Despite the COVID-19 shutdown of the Chinese economy earlier this year, China's share of the pure-play foundry market is forecast to be 22% in 2020, 17pp higher than it registered...
Wednesday 14 October 2020
LCD driver IC, MOSFET prices to rise over 10% in 4Q20
LCD driver IC and MOSFET chip prices are set to rise over 10% in fourth-quarter 2020 and will continue their rally in the following two quarters to reflect tight supply and rising...
Tuesday 13 October 2020
Innosilicon completes chip tape-out based on SMIC FinFET N+1
China-based Innosilicon, a provider of high-speed mixed signal IPs and customized chip design services, has recently announced it has completed a chip tape-out and testing based on...