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Tuesday 23 July 2019
Winbond on track to open new memory fab by 2021
Specialty DRAM and flash memory chipmaker Winbond Electronics on July 22 held a beam-raising ceremony for its new 12-inch wafer plant in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan. The new facility...
Wednesday 3 July 2019
Foxconn set to build 12-inch wafer fab in 2020 as IDM
Foxconn Technology Group is likely to kick off construction of a 12-inch wafer fab in 2020 in Zhuhai, southern China in cooperation with the city government there, and will operate...
Monday 17 June 2019
Winbond to open new fab in southern Taiwan by 2021
Winbond Electronics expects to start operating a new 12-inch wafer plant in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan by 2021, when the DRAM and flash memory chipmaker has its in-house developed...
Tuesday 11 June 2019
China memory maker CXMT to roll out 8Gb LPDDR4 DRAM by end-2019
China-based DRAM maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is stepping up DRAM production deployments as it will kick off commercial runs of its production lines by the end of 2019...
Tuesday 30 April 2019
Silicon wafer firms see 12-inch wafer demand plummet
Silicon wafer suppliers have seen 12-inch wafer demand plummet recently, due mainly to weak demand coming from the memory chip sector, according to industry sources. Prices for 12-inch...
Monday 1 April 2019
Memory demand to pick up in 2H19, says Macronix chairman
Memory market demand is expected to pick up in the second half of 2019, according to Miin Wu, chairman for flash memory and mask ROM chipmaker Macronix International.
Friday 29 March 2019
Why 12-inch fabs are better for power components: Q&A with Bing Xue, AOS SVP of global sales
Alpha & Omega Semiconductor (AOS), which designs and manufactures power semiconductors for a broad range of applications, will start production at its new 12-inch wafer plant...
Thursday 28 March 2019
GlobalWafers supply of 8- and 12-inch wafers remains tight
Silicon wafer company GlobalWafers continues to see its 8- and 12-inch wafer manufacturing lines run at full capacity utilization, as the majority of orders is based on long-term...
Friday 22 March 2019
New TSMC 8-inch fab to fulfill robust automotive chip orders
TSMC's new 8-inch wafer fab to be built in Tainan will have its capacity mostly fulfill robust orders for automotive chips from STMicroelectronics and other dedicated chipmakers,...
Tuesday 5 March 2019
IDMs gearing up MOSFET production at 12-inch fabs
Infineon, now the world's largest supplier of MOSFET chips, is ramping up production of such chips at its new 12-inch plant, inspiring more IDMs to follow suit in 2019, a move that...
Wednesday 13 February 2019
Foundry houses see poor order visibility for 2Q19
Taiwan foundry houses see poor order visibility for the second quarter of 2019, as domestic and international IC design houses need more time to digest their chip inventories, according...
Tuesday 12 February 2019
Nanya January revenues down, Winbond up
DRAM chipmaker Nanya Technology saw its revenues fall to a 19-month low in January 2019, while niche-market DRAM specialist Winbond Electronics' revenues increased 5% on month.
Friday 1 February 2019
Winbond capacity expansion remains on track
Specialty DRAM and flash memory chipmaker Winbond Electronics has said plans to build a new 12-inch wafer plant in southern Taiwan are still on track despite some near-term headwin...
Wednesday 9 January 2019
Winbond December revenues fall to 20-month low
Winbond Electronics, a maker of specialty DRAM and flash memory, saw its December revenues fall to a 20-month low of NT$3.69 billion (US$119.6 million).
Wednesday 26 December 2018
Xiamen public IC service platform boosts design capability
Xiamen IC Design Public Service Platform has played a crucial role in helping China IC designers operating in the country's southeastern port city upgrade their design and innovation...
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