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Thursday 24 December 2020
Taiwan IC testers ask clients to procure own process components
Taiwan-based IC testing houses have asked their fabless and IDM clients to shoulder some of the components costs needed to process their orders, a measure tantamount to raising prices,...
Thursday 24 December 2020
KYEC to raise capex to expand IC testing capacity in 2021
Testing house King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) is expected to budget a higher capex for 2021 than NT$8.5 billion (US$301.8 million) in 2020 to meet robust testing orders for 5G chips...
Tuesday 22 December 2020
Taiwan OSAT firms see clear order visibility through mid-2021
Taiwan-based OSAT services providers have seen clear order visibility through mid-2021, thanks to robust demand for 5G and Wi-Fi chips, power management ICs (PMIC), and display driver...
Tuesday 10 November 2020
Driver IC backend firms see clear order visibility through 1H21
Display driver IC backend specialists including Chipbond Technology and ChipMOS Technologies have enjoyed a ramp-up in orders for handset-use TDDI chips, with clear order visibility...
Thursday 5 November 2020
Sigurd sees clear order visibility through 1Q21
IC testing specialist Sigurd Microelectronics has seen clear order visibility through the first quarter of 2021, with capacity utilization to stay high at 85-90%, according to industry...
Wednesday 4 November 2020
CHPT, Xintec log big revenue gains on iPhone sales
IC testing solution provider Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) and 3D sensor components packager Xintec have posted impressive revenue gains for the first three quarters of 2020...
Thursday 8 October 2020
IC test interface vendors see strong demand for GPUs, 5G SoCs
Taiwan-based IC test solutions providers including Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT), Keystone Microtech and WinWay Technology have enjoyed a pull-in of short lead-time orders for...
Tuesday 8 September 2020
Chips R&D matters: Q&A with iST chairman Danny Yu
Materials analysis (MA), reliability analysis (RA) and failure analysis (FA) are increasingly needed by IC designers, wafer foundries and backend houses to support R&D projects...
Monday 31 August 2020
STAr Technologies celebrates 20th anniversary
STAr Technologies, Inc. (the acronym for "Semiconductor Test Architects"), a leading supplier in integrated test systems, WAT/Wafer sort probe cards, and ATE for the semiconductor...
Tuesday 11 August 2020
IC testers KYEC, Sigurd gearing up for robust MediaTek demand
IC testing houses King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) and Sigurd Microelectronics are both gearing up to satisfy robust demand for MediaTek's chips in the fourth quarter of 2020 following...
Tuesday 4 August 2020
IC test interface vendor CHPT sees impressive growth for January-July sales
IC test interface solutions provider Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) saw its revenues for the first seven months of 2020 jump 44.7% on year to NT$2.343 billion (US$79.69 million)...
Wednesday 8 July 2020
Taiwan IC testing houses poised for strong 3Q20
Taiwan's IC testing houses Ardentec, King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) and Sigurd Microelectronics are expected to see their production lines run at high capacity in the third quarter...
Thursday 2 July 2020
IC test interface specialist Keystone to expand capacity in Taiwan
IC test solutions provider Keystone Microtech is looking to expand its production capacity at its plant in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan to satisfy growing demand for networking chips,...
Thursday 4 June 2020
CHPT expects demand for IC testing solutions to peak in 2Q-3Q 2020
IC testing interfaces provider Chunghwa Precision Test Technology (CHPT) expects its sales for 2020 to peak in second- to third-quarter on rising demand for high-end testing interfaces...
Tuesday 2 June 2020
Taiwan IC testing houses see RF chips orders spike from IDMs
Taiwan-based IC testing houses including King Yuan Electronics (KYEC), Sigurd Microelectronics and Ardentec have seen orders for RF chips ramp up recently from Taiwanese IC designers...
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