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Monday 24 May 2021
Solidworks expects surging sales from cloud computing business in 2021
Solidworks, a developer of 3D engineering CAD software under Dassault Systemes, expects its sales from cloud computing-related businesses in 2021 to surge 6- to 7-fold from a year...
Monday 22 February 2021
China remains largest IC market
China became the largest IC market in the world in 2005 and has continued to grow in size since then. In 2020, China's IC market increased to US$143.4 billion, a 9% gain from US$131.3...
Tuesday 26 January 2021
Ralec to raise quotes for chip resistors
Ralec, a subsidiary of Chilisin Electronics specializing in chip resistors, plans to hike quotes offered to its distributors in the Greater China region by 15%, according to the Taiwan-based...
Tuesday 15 December 2020
Growth ahead for semiconductor equipment market
Global sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment by original equipment manufacturers are projected to increase 16% compared to US$59.6 billion in 2019 and register a new industry...
Thursday 12 November 2020
SMIC expects 10-12% revenue drop in 4Q20
China-based pure-play foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) expects to post a revenue decline of 10-12% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2020, with gross margin...
Tuesday 3 November 2020
Global 3Q20 semiconductor sales increase, says SIA
Worldwide sales of semiconductors totaled US$113.6 billion during the third quarter of 2020, an increase of about 11% over the previous quarter and 5.8% more than the third quarter...
Friday 18 September 2020
Taiwan IC distributors to step up deployments in India
With system vendors and contract manufacturers relocating part of their production to India, Taiwan-based IC distributors are encouraged to step up their deployments in the region,...
Friday 4 September 2020
Opening up new business opportunities of 5G and AIoT, Fibocom to increase presence in Asia-Pacific region
Wireless communication modules are the important and indispensable components of Digital Economics, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data Analytics....
Wednesday 22 July 2020
Chip manufacturing equipment spending to hit record high in 2021, says SEMI
Global sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment by original equipment manufacturers are projected to increase 6% to US$63.2 billion in 2020 compared to US$59.6 billion in 2019,...
Monday 29 June 2020
Taiwan edges South Korea as largest base for IC wafer capacity, says IC Insights
As of December 2019, Taiwan led the world in wafer capacity with about 22% of worldwide capacity installed in the country, according to IC Insights. Taiwan surpassed South Korea in...
Friday 17 April 2020
Notebook ODMs increasing component inventories
Notebook ODMs have been stocking extra parts and components, as they are wary of limited availabilities of cables/wires, connectors and passive components amid the coronavirus pandemic,...
Wednesday 15 April 2020
Global semiconductor equipment sales drop 7% in 2019, SEMI says
Semiconductor equipment manufacturers worldwide logged sales of US$59.8 billion in 2019, a 7% drop from the all-time high of US$64.5 billion in 2018, according to SEMI.
Monday 6 April 2020
Intel shines in 2019 semiconductor market
It was a year when global semiconductor revenue fell by the greatest percentage in at least two decades, when eight of the top-10 chip suppliers suffered revenue declines and when...
Monday 30 March 2020
Taiwan IC design houses see orders for servers slow down
Taiwan-based IC design houses engaged in the supply chain for servers are expected to see orders coming from the sector buoy their sales during the second quarter of 2020, but have...
Friday 13 March 2020
Coronavirus seen as black swan for 2020 IC market
The spread of the coronavirus and its anticipated negative impact on the global economy and IC market definitely fits the definition of a black swan event, according to IC Insights...