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Thursday 11 March 2021
Unimicron to lease land for IC substrate capacity expansion
Taiwan's IC substrate maker Unimicron Technology has decided to lease a land lot in northern Taiwan to prepare for further capacity expansions beyond those already underway, expecting...
Thursday 11 March 2021
Taiwan ABF substrate makers to gain from China homegrown CPU development
Taiwan's IC substrate makers with their strong technological prowess are in pole position to explore business opportunities from China's ongoing homegrown CPU development campaign,...
Monday 8 March 2021
Tight ABF substrate supply may ease in 2023 at earliest
Tight supply for ABF substrates may ease in 2023 at the earliest if makers in Taiwan, Japan and Korea can smoothly commercialize their new capacity with stable yield rates in 2022...
Friday 5 March 2021
Nan Ya to spend NT$8 billion on IC substrate capacity expansion
Nan Ya PCB has disclosed plans to spend at least NT$8 billion (US$287.5 million) in 2021, compared to a capex of NT$7.35 billion for 2020, for capacity expansions at its plants in...
Wednesday 3 March 2021
ABF substrates to be in short supply by at least 25% in 2021
The global supply of ABF substrates may fall short of demand by at least 25% in 2021, due mainly to limited capacity expansions despite increasing demand, according to industry sou...
Wednesday 3 March 2021
BGA packaging for memory controller ICs hits snag on ABF substrate shortages
Backend demand for memory controller ICs has been increasingly strong promising clear order visibility for BGA and FC-BGA packaging processes at OSAT firms, but their operations are...
Thursday 25 February 2021
Unimicron eyeing ABF substrate as major growth driver in 2021
IC substrate and PCB maker Unimicron Technology expects ABF substrates to remain its major growth driver in 2021 and will maintain high capacity utilization for the product line throughout...
Wednesday 24 February 2021
Contract PCB drilling service: Q&A with Key Ware CEO Chen Po-ying
Taiwan suppliers of high-end IC substrates, HDI boards, rigid PCBs with high layer counts and flexible PCBs are expected to have another busy year in 2021 after benefiting from pandemic-induced...
Tuesday 23 February 2021
IC testing service providers benefit from surging demand for cryptocurrencies
Surging prices of Ethereum has boosted demand for graphics cards used to mine the cryptocurrecny, which is benefiting Taiwan-based IC testing services providers, according to sources...
Tuesday 23 February 2021
ABF substrate prices likely to rise
ABF substrate prices are likely to rise later in the first half of 2021, driven by rebounding demand for crypto mining chips and a sharp rise in demand for server applications starting...
Friday 19 February 2021
Tape COF substrate demand picking up
Taiwan-based Chipbond Technology and JMC Electronics have both seen orders for tape COF substrates pick up substantially, reflecting limited capacity supply for such substrates and...
Tuesday 9 February 2021
Kinsus expects new ABF substrate capacity to come online in 2H21
Kinsus Interconnect Technology has stepped up its pace of capacity expansion for ABF substrates, and expects the additional output to come online in the second half of 2021.
Friday 5 February 2021
Robust ABF substrate sales buoy Nan Ya revenues for January
Nan Ya PCB has reported revenues surged 58.1% on year and 5.1% sequentially to NT$3.92 billion (US$140.24 million) in January 2021, buoyed by strong sales of ABF substrates.
Friday 5 February 2021
Fire strikes again at Unimicron plant
A fire broke out February 4 at Unimicron Technology's PCB and IC substrate manufacturing complex in Taoyuan, northern Taiwan, where its BT substrate plant had been just damaged by...
Thursday 4 February 2021
AMD unlikely to transfer orders away from TSMC
AMD is unlikely to transfer its 5nm or 3nm chip orders from TSMC to Samsung Electronics, and its ongoing tight supply of processors is due mainly to ABF substrate shortages rather...
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