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Monday 26 October 2020
More Taiwan IT companies to tap 5G Open RAN device market
A growing number of Taiwan-based IT companies are showing great interest in catering to the network equipment market, aiming to roll out related solutions for the 5G Open RAN sector,...
Monday 26 October 2020
Intel faces increasing rivalry from AMD, Nvidia, Apple in core sectors
Intel has agreed to sell its NAND flash and storage business to SK Hynix, but the chipmaker is also facing increasingly intense competition from AMD, Nvidia and even Apple in its...
Monday 26 October 2020
Global server shipment forecast, 2021 and beyond
Global server shipments are expected to see a CAGR of 6.7% from 2020-2025, driven by demand for datacenter, HPC, AI and 5G related applications.
Monday 26 October 2020
Mitsubishi Gas Chemical, Iteq form JV in Taiwan
Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company (MGC) and Taiwan-based Iteq have announced plans to jointly establish a joint venture, of which the former will hold a 51% share and the latter 49%.
Monday 26 October 2020
Driver ICs tight supply: Q&A with Chipbond chairman FJ Wu
The supply of display driver ICs has fallen short of demand, while capacities at 8-inch foundries stay tight. Backend houses are mulling raising their quotes to reflect the tight...
Friday 23 October 2020
Intel reports 3Q20 financial results
Intel has reported third-quarter 2020 financial results, generating US$8.2 billion in cash from operations and paying dividends of US$1.4 billion.
Friday 23 October 2020
IC designers have mixed feelings about good sales of iPhone 12 series
Taiwanese IC design houses have mixed feelings about good sales of the new iPhone series, which could limit sales for 5G Android phones in the short term, according to industry sou...
Friday 23 October 2020
Shipments of 5G and Wi-Fi 6 chips still booming
Taiwan's IC suppliers still see strong order pull-ins for chips supporting production of 5G phones and Wi-Fi 6 network devices in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to industry...
Friday 23 October 2020
Equipment makers to gain from ABF substrate capacity expansions
Taiwan-based equipment makers including Csun Manufacturing and Gallant Precision Machining (GPM) expect strong demand from domestic IC substrates makers now all gearing up to build...
Friday 23 October 2020
Iteq expects CCL shipments for 5G base stations to surge in 2021
Taiwan-based CCL maker Iteq expects shipments for 5G base stations, particularly sub-6GHz ones, to ramp up significantly in 2021, according to company chairman Dennis Chen.
Friday 23 October 2020
Expanding FWA services to spur 5G CPE demand, says Digitimes Research
A growing number of Taiwan-based network equipment suppliers have ramped up shipments of 5G CPE (customer premise equipment) products to the markets in Europe and the US starting...
Thursday 22 October 2020
Compal, Cisco form alliance to explore 5G AIoT mark
Taiwan's Compal Electronics and US networking specialist Cisco Systems have newly formed a strategic alliance to explore the 5G AIoT market and serve enterprise clients with diverse...
Thursday 22 October 2020
Co-Tech expects high-frequency copper foil sales to rise in 2021
C-Tech Development, which produces electrolytic copper foil used to manufacture CCLs for PCBs, is expected to see its shipments of high-frequency and high-speed materials for server...
Thursday 22 October 2020
Asia Optical developing new products for 5G, datacenter, cloud applications
Asia Optical is gearing up its R&D efforts developing new products such as optical modules to tap business opportunities in the 5G, datacenter, cloud and smart medical care sectors,...
Wednesday 21 October 2020
Vapor chamber demand for smartphones disappointing
Demand for vapor chambers (VC) from smartphone vendors has been disappointing so far in 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic deterring the launch of high-end models by non-Apple...