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Wednesday 6 July 2022
Taiwan GaAs foundries to see fab utilization rates rise in 3Q22
GaAs foundries Win Semiconductors and Advanced Wireless Semiconductor (AWSC) are both expected to see their fab capacity utilization rates pick up in the third quarter of 2022, according...
Thursday 23 June 2022
Handset vendors see inventory swelling at channels
Channel dealers and retailers are suffering from excess smartphone inventories, casting a shadow on the overall handset market outlook for the second half of 2022, according to industry...
Wednesday 15 June 2022
Android phone vendors gearing up for 618 shopping festival in China
Android phone vendors are gearing up promotional efforts to boost shipments during the upcoming 618 shopping festival in China, where smartphone sales have been sluggish since the...
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,...
Thursday 2 June 2022
Cutting DDI production orders not an easy deal: Q&A with Chipbond Technology chair Fei-Jain Wu
Taiwan-based Chipbond Technology, now holding the world's largest backend capacity for panel display driver ICs (DDI), continues to deepen cooperation with local OSAT Orient Semiconductor...
Monday 30 May 2022
PA, DDI backend houses see stable shipments for Apple devices
Despite uncertainties in chip demand for handsets, TV and other consumer electronics devices, Taiwan's backend suppliers including ASE Technologies, Chipbond Technology and III-V...
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...
Tuesday 10 May 2022
Memory prices to rebound in 2H22, say IC distributors
Memory prices will be trending downward in the second quarter of 2022, but are likely to rebound in the second half of the year when new smartphones hit market shelves, according...
Friday 29 April 2022
RichWave expects Wi-Fi SoC shortages to ease in 2H22
Taiwan-based RichWave Technology, which specializes in Wi-Fi FEM (front-end module) solutions, expects Wi-Fi core chip shortages to ease in the second half of 2022 significantly buoying...
Thursday 21 April 2022
TSMC fan-out packaging to attract orders for Android smartphone SoCs
Apple will no longer be the exclusive customer of TSMC adopting the foundry's advanced integrated fan-out (InFO) wafer-level packaging, which is expected to attract orders for Android...
Friday 8 April 2022
Testing firms on track to fulfill new product development projects for MediaTek
MediaTek's testing partners including King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) and Sigurd Microelectronics, and IC test interface specialists, such as Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT), WinWay...
Thursday 7 April 2022
Automotive CIS emerging as new blue-ocean market for supply chain
It seems that CMOS image sensor (CIS) demand momentum for mainstream handset applications has become stagnant amid unclear market prospects, but the automotive CIS segment is emerging...
Friday 25 March 2022
Mixed levels of price reduction pressure looming for diverse IC segments
Different IC segments will be experiencing mixed levels of price downward pressure at least in the first half of the year, according to industry sources.
Monday 21 March 2022
iPhone SE hits retail shelves, unnerving Android suppliers
Android phone suppliers have felt the pressure caused by the launch of new iPhone SE, which is expected to heat up the competition in the midrange phone segment, according to industry...
Monday 14 March 2022
New iPhone SE gnaws away at Android market share
Following the launch of new 5G iPhone SE model, the market is observing whether Apple will dominate the midrange phone segment as it did previously.