Shanghai Huali Microelectronics (HLMC) is scheduled to hold a groundbreaking ceremony in early December for its second 12-inch fab in Shanghai, according to the China-based pure-play...
China-based foundries have been fast expanding their production capacity for 28nm and more mature process technologies which could pose a threat to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing...
Taiwan-based eMemory Technology, a provider of embedded non-volatile memory (eNVM) IP, has announced its partnership with China-based foundry chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing...
Growth in pure-play foundry sales for 2016 is forecast to be almost entirely due to sub-40nm feature size device sales, according to IC Insights. The leading-edge sub-40nm pure-play...
Silicon IP provider M31 has announced the development of its new MIPI M-PHY Gear3 IP on TSMC's 40LP and 28nm HPC+ process nodes. The 40LP M-PHY has been widely adopted by customers...
Renesas Electronics and TSMC have announced that they are collaborating on 28nm embedded flash (eFlash) process technology for manufacturing microcontrollers (MCUs) targeted at next-generation...
With Intel decelerating its pace of orders for baseband chips, utilization rates for TSMC's 28nm processes are set to drop slightly in the fourth quarter of 2016, according to industry...
Faraday Technology, a fabless ASIC/SoC and silicon IP provider, expects to post a revenue decline of 14-18% sequentially in the third quarter of 2016. The company attributed its pessimistic...
Faraday Technology and United Microelectronics (UMC) have jointly announced the availability of Faraday's 12.5Gbps programmable SerDes PHY IP on UMC's 28HPC process technology. The...
United Microelectronics (UMC) has reported consolidated revenues of NT$13.53 billion (US$418.6 million) for June 2016, a monthly record. UMC's revenues for June 2016 represented increases...
IC design service company Global Unichip is expected to see its June revenues rise above NT$1 billion (US$30.7 million) and hit a 46-month high, buoyed by orders for 28nm products,...
United Microelectronics (UMC) is expected to enjoy full utilization of 28nm production capacity through the fourth quarter of 2016, thanks to rising orders from Qualcomm and Marvell,...
Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) has announced that Qualcomm's Snapdragon 425 processor and MDM9x07 have passed customer qualification and begun mass production at...
Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) and Synopsys have announced immediate availability of their joint 28nm RTL-to-GDSII reference design flow. Developed through deep...
