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Tuesday 6 July 2021
KYEC to regain growth in 3Q21 after 31% revenue fall in June
Taiwan's dedicated IC testing house King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) will see its business operations return to a growth track in the third quarter of the year after its June revenues...
Tuesday 6 July 2021
South Korea has fastest 5G downloading speed among 8 Asia Pacific markets, says report
South Korea has the fastest downloading speed of 5G services at 380.5Mbps among eight key markets in Asia Pacific, followed by Taiwan, Australia and Japan, while Thailand is at the...
Tuesday 6 July 2021
NXP and Jio Platforms collaborate for 5G in India
NXP Semiconductors and Jio Platforms (JPL), a subsidiary of Reliance, have announced a collaboration to implement a 5G NR O-RAN small cell solution that incorporates NXP's Layerscape...
Monday 5 July 2021
Iteq to develop high-end CCLs for handsets, IC substrates, mmWave antennas
Taiwan's CCL maker Iteq will step up its business diversification, with more efforts on developing high-end CCL materials for handset, IC substrate and flexible mmWave antenna applications,...
Monday 5 July 2021
Prices of 5G SoC solutions under downward pressure
The price spiral of 5G SoC solutions may come to an end soon due to the increasing availability of related chips, according to industry sources.
Monday 5 July 2021
Taiwan GaAs foundry houses set to secure more 5G PA orders from China
Taiwan-based GaAs foundry houses, including Win Semiconductors, Advanced Wireless Semiconductor (AWSC) and Visual Photonics Epitaxy (VPEC), are set to land more orders from Chinese...
Friday 2 July 2021
EMC to grow substantially sales of high-end CCLs in 2H21
Taiwan-based CCL manufacturer Elite Material (EMC) expects sales of its high-frequency and high-speed products to rise substantially and account for a larger proportion of revenue...
Friday 2 July 2021
Quartz component makers see delivery times extended to six months
Taiwan-based quartz component suppliers including TXC, Siward Crystal Technology, Tai-Saw Technology and Harmony Electronics have all seen delivery lead times extended to nearly two...
Thursday 1 July 2021
Skyworks to increase outsourcing for PA orders from China
Skyworks will be stepping up its RF power amplifier (PA) production outsourcing to Taiwanese partners to fulfill orders placed by China-based smartphone vendors, while providing its...
Thursday 1 July 2021
High-speed transmission chip demand to surge in 3Q21
Chip orders for servers, particularly high-speed transmission chip orders, will be ramping up substantially in the third quarter of 2021, according to industry sources.
Thursday 1 July 2021
Vietnam to phase out 2G, 3G serivces starting 2022
Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) has decided to start phasing out 2G and 3G technologies within the country in 2022 in a bid to encourage people to use smartphones...
Wednesday 30 June 2021
Apple reportedly enlists five suppliers of AiP substrates for new mmWave iPhnones
Apple reportedly has enlisted AT&S as a new supplier of BT-based AiP (antenna in package) substrates for new 5G mmWave iPhones to be released later in the year, expanding to five...
Wednesday 30 June 2021
Qualcomm make headway in 5G mmWave SoC solutions market
Qualcomm has made headway in the 5G mmWave solution market, securing related orders from many telecom operators and smartphone vendors in North America, Europe, Japan, Korea, India...
Wednesday 30 June 2021
Compound semiconductors now national strategic materials, says GlobalWafers chair
Compound semiconductors will become a key industry sector reaching a national strategic level in importance, as they will be badly needed to power many critical technological applications...
Wednesday 30 June 2021
Getac upbeat about rugged PC sales in 2H21
The rugged PC market is expected to regain its growth momentum in the second half of 2021, as demand from the enterprise sector starts picking up along with gradual removal of lockdowns...