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Monday 6 March 2023
Major OSATs gearing up for automotive mmWave radar solutions
Automotive mmWave radars are widely believed to become important supporting components for future vehicles. Major OSATs including China's JCET, Taiwan's ASE Technology, and US-based...
Monday 20 February 2023
Amkor, GF team up for at-scale IC backend services in Europe
Amkor Technology and GlobalFoundries (GF) have formed a strategic partnership that will enable a comprehensive EU/US supply chain from semiconductor wafer production at GF to OSAT...
Tuesday 14 February 2023
OSATs strive to reduce operating costs as orders slow
As fab utilization rates fall due to slowing customer orders, OSATs have implemented cost-cutting measures such as encouraging employees to take leave, according to industry source...
Monday 13 February 2023
Amkor reportedly to close Shanghai plant for 1 week to cut costs
A slowdown in customer orders has forced all staff at OSAT Amkor Technology's production site in Shanghai, estimated at about 5,000 people, to take vacation for about a week, according...
Thursday 2 February 2023
OSATs see promising demand for custom-built chips
Demand for custom-built chips from system vendors remains promising for OSATs that offer high-end backend services, such as ASE Technology (ASEH), Amkor Technology and Powertech Technology...
Thursday 19 January 2023
Wi-Fi 6E penetration in PCs to rise on new MacBook Pro adoption
The new 14-and 16-inch MacBook Pro models just unveiled by Apple both support the newest Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) wireless communication standard, which is expected to notably drive up...
Thursday 17 November 2022
Amkor, SPIL share orders for new Qualcomm smartphone SoC
Qualcomm has contracted both Amkor Technology and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) to provide backend services for its just-unveiled flagship smartphone SoC, according to industry...
Wednesday 26 October 2022
Amkor signals auto semiconductor regional cluster strengthening in Europe
The semiconductor industry players are forming a regional cluster in Europe, with the support of EU's semiconductor initiative to decrease its dependence on Asia. Seeing growing demand...
Wednesday 8 June 2022
ASE, Unimicron to provide packaging, related substrates for new Apple M2 chip
Taiwan-based ASE Technology and Unimicron Technology have both seized flip chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) packaging and related substrate orders for Apple's just unveiled M2 processors,...
Tuesday 7 June 2022
Top foundries, OSATs meet HPC boom with more advanced packaging solutions
Handset chips supply chain players share the view that their 2022 shipments for the segment will at best stay flat at 2021 levels, but HPC chip demand will continue to grow for datacenter,...
Wednesday 1 June 2022
HPC chip vendors favor 'on substrate' packaging for system integration
System integration capability is increasingly needed in packaging HPC chips for AI, networking and other applications that accelerate digital transformation at enterprises and people's...
Wednesday 1 June 2022
Arm-based HPC chips gain ground for PCs, benefiting OSATs
Ever-advancing datacenter, server, networking and AI applications continue to drive R&D momentum for diverse HPC chip solutions, and Arm-based HPC chips, in particular, have been...
Tuesday 24 May 2022
Chiplet processing demand on the rise
While their consumer IC packaging business continues to slow down, Taiwan OSATs have received increasing inquiries about chiplet manufacturing solutions from clients in the US, China...
Tuesday 24 May 2022
TSMC poised to sustain lead with integrated advanced processes in next decade
While chip manufacturing technology continues to advance toward sub-5nm processes, advanced packaging also has been widely recognized as a key segment to progress drastically with...
Wednesday 23 February 2022
ASE eyeing backend orders for Apple-designed 5G modem chips
ASE Technology, which owns Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL), is in preliminary talks with Apple for backend orders associated with...