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Thursday 28 October 2021
'SysMoore' or 'More than Moore': Semiconductor technologies likely to evolve with system complexity
The sustainability of Moore's Law, an observation made by Gordon Moore in 1965 that the number of transistors on a chip would double every 18 months, has been in the center of debate...
Wednesday 27 October 2021
MediaTek expects up to 8% revenue drop in 4Q21
MediaTek expects to post flat growth or an up to 8% sequential decrease in fourth-quarter revenue, and has revised its revenue growth outlook for all of 2021 to a 52% surge.
Thursday 21 October 2021
New MediaTek 5G modem chip built using TSMC 4nm process
MediaTek will enter volume shipments of its new-generation 5G modem based on the latest 3GPP 5G R16 standard in 2022, gearing up for a boom in demand for flagship 5G smartphones,...
Wednesday 20 October 2021
Taiwan IC substrate makers cut into supply chain for new-gen Mac chips
Taiwan-based IC substrate suppliers, such as Unimicron Technology, have reportedly cut into the supply chain for Apple's custom-built silicon powering the next generation Macs, and...
Friday 15 October 2021
Chipmakers gearing up for Wi-Fi 6/6E chip boom
Chipmakers including MediaTek, Qualcomm, and Broadcom are set to ramp up their output for Wi-Fi 6/6E chip solutions looking to embrace booming demand for such chips and increase their...
Friday 8 October 2021
Egis board approves investments in three companies
The board of directors of Egis Technology, a Taiwan-based IC design house specializing in fingerprint sensors, has approved plans to make investments in three firms - PC peripheral...
Thursday 7 October 2021
Novatek scores record revenues in 3Q21
Display driver IC specialist Novatek Microelectronics saw its third-quarter revenue hit a record high of NT$38.35 billion (US$1.37 billion), up 12.41% sequentially and 74.29% on year,...
Tuesday 5 October 2021
Chipmakers striving to cope with uneven inventories across different chips
Chipmakers have experienced a worsening shortage of power management ICs and other mature chips, while having relatively high inventories of handset application processors and other...
Monday 4 October 2021
TSMC on track to meet revenue goal this year
Speculation has emerged in the chipmaking market that cutbacks in 5nm and 7nm chip orders placed by Apple and MediaTek could result in TSMC missing its revenue target for 2021 of...
Monday 27 September 2021
Taiwan IC vendors poised to raise prices in 4Q21
Several Taiwan-based IC design houses are poised to raise their chip prices starting the fourth quarter of 2021 to reflect rising manufacturing costs, according to industry sources...
Friday 24 September 2021
AMD, MediaTek reportedly in talks to form JV
Speculation has been circulating in the chipmaking market that AMD and MediaTek are in talks to form a joint venture that will be dedicated to developing SoC solutions combining Wi-Fi,...
Wednesday 22 September 2021
MediaTek releases Kompanio 900T AP for tablets
MediaTek has recently launched the Kompanio 900T AP for Android-based tablets and expects the chip to help it maintain the leadership in the Android tablet AP market.
Thursday 16 September 2021
Monolithic/heterogeneous integration to drive Silicon 4.0: Q&A with Etron chairman Nicky Lu
While global chip shortages can hardly ease in the short term and prices continue to rise further, regional semiconductor fleets are quietly taking shape as the US, EU, South Korea,...
Monday 13 September 2021
MediaTek posts increased August revenue
MediaTek has reported revenue of NT$42.81 billion (US$1.55 billion) for August 2021, up 6.1% sequentially and 30.9% on year.
Friday 10 September 2021
Foxconn to make SiC components at 6-inch fab for EV, solar apps
Foxconn (Hon Hai) Technology Group has disclosed that at its newly-acquired 6-inch wafer fab in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, the company will be making SiC components and IR MEMS sensors...