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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...
Wednesday 21 October 2020
Asia Pacific Telecom ready for commercial 5G services
Asia Pacific Telecom (APT) has announced that it will kick off its commercial 5G services in Taiwan on October 22, leveraging a 5G spectrum sharing scheme reached with fellow company...
Wednesday 21 October 2020
Micron uMCP5 ready for mass production
Micron Technology has announced the launch of uMCP5, which the company claims is the industry's first universal flash storage (UFS) multichip package with low-power DDR5 DRAM.
Tuesday 20 October 2020
Chipbond, OSE form alliance for flash, 5G RF modules packaging
Display driver IC backend specialist Chipbond Technology and memory modules backend and EMS service provider Orient Semiconductor Electronics (OSE) have formed a long-term strategic...
Tuesday 20 October 2020
Equipment makers optimistic about demand from passive component sector
Equipment suppliers are optimistic about demand coming from the passive component sector, where leading players including Yageo and Walsin Technology have plans for capacity expans...
Tuesday 20 October 2020
China 5G phone shipments to top 150 million units in 2020
Sales of 5G phones in China, already in full swing, are expected to gain a further boost in fourth-quarter 2020 thanks to higher than expected pre-orders for iPhone 12 lineup received...
Tuesday 20 October 2020
Taiwan IC design houses gearing up for 5G smartphone market boom
Taiwan-based IC design houses are gearing up for a boom in 5G smartphone shipments starting the fourth quarter of 2020, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 20 October 2020
Dialog licenses non-volatile ReRAM technology to Globalfoundries for 22FDX platform
Dialog Semiconductor and Globalfoundries have entered into an agreement in which Dialog licenses its conductive bridging RAM (CBRAM) technology to Globalfoundries, according to the...
Tuesday 20 October 2020
SK Hynix to acquire Intel NAND memory biz
Intel and SK Hynix have signed an agreement under which the latter would acquire the former's NAND memory and storage business for US$9 billion, according to the companies.
Monday 19 October 2020
China PCB makers poised for new stage of competition with Taiwan peers
With Taiwan sustaining its firm leadership in the global PCB industry, China has been fast catching up due to its heavy capital expenses over the past five years, and PCB makers in...
Friday 16 October 2020
China to step up construction of small 5G base stations in 2021
Telecom operators in China, after slowing down construction of 5G base stations in fourth-quarter 2020, are expected to reactivate new infrastructure projects in 2021 with focus placed...
Friday 16 October 2020
China 5G subscriber market keeps growing, says Digitimes Research
The 5G subscriber market has continued growing steadily in China, with its 5G connected devices in use on track to grow to 185 million units by year-end 2020, having reached 66 million...