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Wednesday 27 November 2019
Backend firms to gain from strong chip demand for midrange 5G handsets in 2020
As shipments of midrange 5G smartphones are expected to expand significantly in 2020, the resultant strong demand for chipsets will be a major revenue growth driver for Taiwan's backend...
Wednesday 13 November 2019
Wi-Fi 6 to share spotlight with 5G
A recent Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA) announcement saying that it has granted an Wi-Fi Certified 6 verification for Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Note 10 heralds the arrival of a high-speed...
Tuesday 5 November 2019
GaAs foundries, backend firms see capacity utilization rates climb
GaAs IC foundries including Advanced Wireless Semiconductor (AWSC) and Win Semiconductors have both seen their 6-inch fab capacity utilization rates ramp up, driven by robust demand...
Tuesday 5 November 2019
Certification, backend demand emerging for Wi-Fi 6 chip solutions
Global chipmakers are keenly developing Wi-Fi 6 chip solutions to support sub-6-GHz 5G smartphones, the mainstream new-generation models estimated to register annual shipments of...
Monday 30 September 2019
Chipmakers building backend probing capacity for Wi-Fi 6 chips
Taiwan's IC-design houses including MediaTek and Realtek Semiconductors have been placing more orders for testing gauges such as IC test sockets as these IC vendors are ready to ramp...
Monday 30 September 2019
Wi-Fi 6 penetration growing
The penetration rate of Wi-Fi 6 technology is expected to reach 10% in 2020, with smartphone applications pioneering the adoption, followed by notebooks and smart household devices,...
Friday 27 September 2019
Qualcomm striving to excel in Wi-Fi market
Qualcomm is deepening its deployment in the Wi-Fi space as demand for IoT-related transmissions is ready for a jump-start, according to Dino Bekis, the firm's vice president and mobile...
Friday 2 August 2019
Intel launches 10nm mobile Core processors
Intel has launched 11 highly-integrated 10th Gen Intel Core processors, manufactured via its 10nm process and designed for 2-in-1s and notebooks. The processors bring artificial intelligence...
Tuesday 30 July 2019
Taiwan PC chips makers eyeing at least 10% revenue surge for 3Q19
With Intel's CPU shortages easing, many Taiwan-based vendors of chips for PCs and notebooks expect to post sequential double-digit revenue increases in the third quarter after seeing...
Monday 29 July 2019
Huawei gearing up 5G deployments via 3-pronged approach
Despite suffering hiccups in obtaining advanced 5G base stations chips from US suppliers, Huawei is still aggressively taking a three-pronged approach in carrying out its 5G deployments,...
Wednesday 26 June 2019
ZTE launches 5G/FTTH dual-mode home gateway
ZTE has launched a 5G/FTTH dual-mode home gateway at Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2019. It is compatible with the 5G networks of high bandwidth, low latency and massive connections,...
Tuesday 18 June 2019
IC materials analyzers see robust demand from 5G, AIoT, Wi-Fi 6 applications
Taiwan's dedicated semiconductor materials and devices analysis, testing and verification labs, including Integrated Service Technology, (iST), Materials Aanalysis Technology (MA-tek)...
Thursday 13 June 2019
VPEC ramping up VCSEL wafer production
Epitaxial wafer supplier Visual Photonics Epitaxy Company (VPEC) has kicked off volume production for vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) components, and is expected to...
Wednesday 5 June 2019
Dialog announces Wi-Fi SoC
Dialog Semiconductor has introduced the FC9000, the company's first Wi-Fi SoC since its acquisition of Silicon Motion's mobile communications product line was recently completed.
Monday 3 June 2019
Wi-Fi 6 outlook: Q&A with Cees Links from Qorvo
Along with Skyworks and Broadcom as the world's top-3 providers of RF (radio frequency) solutions for advanced wireless devices, US-based Qorvo is keen on promoting Wi-Fi 6 (IEEE...