The global market for outsourced IC packaging and testing is likely to balloon to US$10.5 billion in 2005 from US$5.7 billion in 2002, as packaging and testing costs rise as a proportion...
The testing and packaging industry represents a significant portion of the semiconductor industry in China. According to the China Center for Information Industry Development (CCID),...
Demand from end-user application markets drives the development of new packaging technologies. For instance, mobile phones drove the development of stack packaging and PCs and game...
Taiwan, situated at the center of the Asia-Pacific region, enjoys a tremendous geographical advantage over its neighbors. With its complete electronics supply chain and the world’s...
The increasingly diverse applications for semiconductors – growing from a focus on to encompass many consumer products – will induce robust, double digit growth for the...
Taiwan-based IC packaging and testing service providers enjoyed strong sales in August. Nine companies set record highs, and four others posted highs for this year.
Despite declining NAND flash memory component prices in the first half of this year, the worldwide flash card market is poised for strong revenue growth in 2003, market research firm...
The combination of increasing foreign and domestic investment with a strategy shift towards foundry services has helped the semiconductor manufacturing industry in China establish...
Building on a long history in advanced manufacturing technologies and processes, Unaxis Semiconductors, a US subsidiary of the Swiss company Unaxis, is taking an integrated, customer-oriented...
Cleanliness remains a key to successful manufacturing in the semiconductor arena and a key force for profitability for Chaska, Minn.-based Entegris. The company grew 30% in its 2003...
Semiconductor capital expenditures are tightly linked to the recovery of the entire industry. There is a direct knock-on effect from an increase in demand for semiconductors to the...
Semicon Taiwan 2003 opened yesterday at 10 am. Blue skies greeted the record number of participants and seemed to reflect the mood of the lines of attendees waiting to register. The...
Taiwan’s IC industry grew 12% year-on-year to produce NT$348.5 billion worth of products in the first half of 2003, according to the Industrial Technology Information Service...
In the world of semiconductors, size continues to play a critical role as customers continue to clamor for smaller and smaller features. Like its competitors, FEI Company is working...
