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Friday 20 April 2018
TSMC cuts revenue outlook for 2018
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has cut its revenue growth forecast for 2018 to 10% from the previously-estimated 10-15%, citing weaker-than-expected smartphone...
Tuesday 10 April 2018
Bitmain Ethereum ASIC miner to be released in July
ASIC supplier Bitmain has postponed shipments for its Ethereum ASIC miner, the Antminer E3, from April to mid- or late-July due to the circuit's weaker-than-expected performance,...
Tuesday 10 April 2018
MediaTek announces complete 56G PAM4 SerDes, silicon-proven on 7nm for ASIC services
MediaTek has announced an addition to its ASIC lineup with a 56G SerDes IP chip available with silicon-proven 7nm FinFET process technology. MediaTek's 56G SerDes is a high-performance...
Friday 30 March 2018
TSMC revenues to rebound in March
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is expected to see its March revenues rebound to over NT$100 billion (US$3.43 billion), driven by a ramp-up of 16nm and 12nm chip...
Tuesday 27 March 2018
Bitmain rises as new China unicorn
China's dedicated mining ASIC supplier Bitmain has squeezed into the list of the nation's startup unicorns, and its quarter-by-quarter shipment growth of mining ASICs as well as its...
Thursday 15 March 2018
TSMC seeing tight capacity for cryptocurrency mining chips
TSMC's 16nm and 12nm process production capacity has been tight in the first quarter of 2018 driven by strong demand for GPUs and ASICs for cryptocurrency mining, according to industry...
Thursday 8 February 2018
China IC backend houses vying for orders for mining ASICs
Major China-based OSAT companies including Jiangsu Changjiang Electronics Technology (JCET), Tongfu Microelectronics and Tianshui Huatian Technology are all gearing up to compete...
Tuesday 30 January 2018
TSMC lands big orders for mining ASICs from Bitmain
Taiwan semiconductor firms will see major revenue boosts from the global cryptocurrency mining craze in 2018, as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has landed sizable...
Thursday 16 November 2017
Global Unichip tapes out 16nm TCAM compiler
Taiwan-based IC design service company Global Unichip has announced a successful TCAM compiler tape-out based on TSMC's 16FFC process technology.
Thursday 9 November 2017
China-based Zhaoxin Semiconductor expects CPU sales to double in 2017, 2018
Zhaoxin Semiconductor, a leading China maker of x86 processors, expects its annual CPU sales to double for two consecutive years in 2017-18 due to its successful penetration into...
Thursday 9 November 2017
China AI unicorn Cambricon to launch smart chips using TSMC 16nm process
China AI chip unicorn Cambricon Technologies plans to launch MLU machine learning series processor chips for cloud-based applications within the next 18 months, with the chips to...
Thursday 19 October 2017
TSMC 3Q17 profits slip
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reported net profits of NT$89.93 billion (US$2.97 billion) on consolidated revenues of NT$252.11 billion for the third quarter...
Wednesday 18 October 2017
HiSilicon seeking second-source supplier for 7nm chips
HiSilicon Technologies is seeking a second-source supplier for the fabrication of its 7nm chips, with Samsung Electronics, Globalfoundries and Intel striving for orders from the China-based...
Thursday 12 October 2017
Pure-play foundries boosting presence in China
With the rise of fabless IC companies in China, demand for foundry services in the country has also increased. In total, pure-play foundry sales in China are expected to increase...
Wednesday 27 September 2017
MediaTek likely to meet high end of 3Q17 guidance
MediaTek is expected to meet the high-end of its sales guidance for the third quarter of 2017, driven by better-than-expected sales of its recently introduced Helio P23 and P30 chips,...