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Tuesday 12 March 2024
Backend houses upbeat about orders for memory chips
With memory chipmakers ready to scale up output, industry sources indicated that backend houses are optimistic about orders from the memory sector beginning in the second quarter...
Tuesday 12 March 2024
India expects 2-3 wafer fabs and three ATMP/OSAT facilities in coming years
After India approved three chip projects to develop a local chipmaking ecosystem, an Indian government official disclosed the country is likely to see at least 2-3 wafer fabs and...
Tuesday 12 March 2024
Ex-SMIC R&D EVP joins Chinese memory maker CXMT
Zhou Meisheng, former EVP of technology R&D at Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC), has joined Chinese DRAM manufacturer ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT).
Monday 11 March 2024
Drastic NAND price hikes could dampen demand, says Phison CEO
While the price increase caused by NAND production cuts is not a good thing, it is an encouraging development for NAND flash chip makers to regain profitability and build new fabs,...
Monday 11 March 2024
Top-5 wafer fab equipment makers see combined revenue slip 1% in 2023
At US$93.5 billion in 2023, the combined revenue of the top five Wafer Fabrication Equipment (WFE) manufacturers decreased by 1% annually due to sluggish memory spending, a macroeconomic...
Monday 11 March 2024
SK Hynix reported has submitted 12-layer HBM3E samples to Nvidia
Players in the memory industry are fiercely competing with each other in developing the fifth-generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) HBM3E due to the intense demand from AI GPUs....
Monday 11 March 2024
JEDEC publishes GDDR7 graphics memory standard
Memory industry standards body JEDEC Solid State Technology Association has announced the publication of the JESD239 GDDR7 SGRAM.
Monday 11 March 2024
South Korea seeks to stop tech leak, as HBM3E race intensifies
Against the backdrop of the emergence of protectionism, competition surrounding High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) is also heating up. Although the South Korean court has ruled to hinder...
Monday 11 March 2024
MediaTek likely to meet 2024 Q1 target with steady growth in February
Taiwanese IC design leader MediaTek announced its latest February revenue, which amounted to NT$38.482 billion, a decrease of 13.52% month-on-month but an increase of 26.96% year-on-year...
Friday 8 March 2024
Huawei chip breakthrough used tech from two US gear suppliers
Huawei Technologies Co. and its partner Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. relied on US technology to produce an advanced chip in China last year, according to people...
Friday 8 March 2024
HBM race: South Korean court moves to prohibit former SK Hynix employee from joining Micron
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) frenzy intensifies the competition for High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). A South Korean court recently approved an order application by SK Hynix to prohibit...
Friday 8 March 2024
TSMC February revenue declines 15.8%; Q1 2024 performance better than expected
Due to the reduction in working days in February, TSMC's consolidated revenue for February declined as expected to approximately NT$181.6 billion, a decrease of 15.8% compared to...
Friday 8 March 2024
Taiwan exports to China see record drop in 2023
Taiwan's exports to China (including Hong Kong) decreased by 18.1% in 2023 compared with 2022, the largest decline in history, according to Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council.
Friday 8 March 2024
Chinese foundry to set up production line for HBM memory
Wuhan Xinxin Semiconductor Manufacturing (XMC) reportedly has sent out an invitation to bid for a high-bandwidth memory (HBM) project. This suggests that the Chinese memory sector,...
Friday 8 March 2024
DDR5 adoption to accelerate in 2H24 thanks to GenAI
Penetration of DDR5 in the memory market is poised to accelerate and reach double digits in the second half of 2024, thanks to demand from Generative AI (GenAI), according to market...