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Tuesday 19 May 2020
Qualcomm, MediaTek head to head in entry-level 5G SoC market
MediaTek has announced a new Dimensity chipset for smartphones, the Dimensity 820, supporting 5G and the latest multimedia and AI technologies. The new offering portends keen competition...
Tuesday 19 May 2020
Taiwan backend houses expect Huawei orders to drift starting 4Q20
Taiwan-based OSAT firms will continue to fulfill chip orders from Huawei/HiSilicon in the third quarter of 2020, but are unsure about the orders in the fourth quarter as the Chinese...
Friday 15 May 2020
CHT, HTC to jointly offer VR applications via 5G
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) and HTC have announced an alliance to jointly launch VR application services that will leverage the traits of high-speed, low latency and wide bandwidth of...
Friday 15 May 2020
Taiwan small- to mid-size LCD panels – 1Q 2020
Taiwan's small- to medium-size panels shipments went down 28.4% sequentially in the first quarter of 2020, reaching only 167.64 million units as demand for entry-level smartphones...
Thursday 14 May 2020
China smartphone market and industry – 1Q 2020
Smartphone shipments to the China market in first-quarter 2020 plunged 51.9% from the prior quarter to reach the lowest single-quarter shipment volumes in recent years, as the market...
Wednesday 13 May 2020
Nan Ya PCB swings to profit in 1Q20
Nan Ya PCB returned to profitability in the first quarter of 2020, driven by strong shipments of its high-end ABF substrates.
Wednesday 13 May 2020
VCSEL chips demand on track for stable expansion
VCSEL (vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser) chip demand for 5G base station equipment, networking devices and even optical communications applications has got on track for stable...
Wednesday 13 May 2020
TSMC intros new-gen IPD technology for 5G mobile devices
TSMC's in-house developed wafer-level integrated passive device (IPD) technology has been advanced to a new generation, which will be ready for high volume manufacturing this year,...
Tuesday 12 May 2020
Power Logic expects shipments for graphics cards to pick up in 2H20
Cooling fan maker Power Logic expects the upcoming rollouts of 7nm GPUs by AMD and Nvidia to drive its shipments for high-end graphics cards in the second half of 2020.
Tuesday 12 May 2020
Unimicron embraces brisk orders for ABF substrates
Unimicron Technology has seen clear order visibility for ABF substrates at least through the third quarter, with the orders mainly for 5G infrastructure, networking and HPC chips...
Monday 11 May 2020
MediaTek posts sales decrease in April
MediaTek has reported consolidated revenues of NT$20.55 billion (US$688.6 million) for April 2020, down 4.7% sequentially and nearly 10% on year.
Monday 11 May 2020
Zhen Ding, Unimicron looking to extend lead over peers via bold capex injection
The coronavirus pandemic may force many Taiwan-based PCB makers to slow down their capacity expansion plans in the short term due to uncertain market prospects, but Zhen Ding Technology...
Friday 8 May 2020
IntelliEPI, Transcom see stable orders for defense-use III-V devices
Niche-type compound semiconductors makers Intelligent Epitaxy Technology (IntelliEPI) and Transcom can better beat coronavirus-induced headwinds than peers in 2020, as they have secured...
Friday 8 May 2020
CCL maker Ventec posts profit surge in 1Q20
Taiwan-based niche-type CCL maker Ventec International has reported its net profit surged 53.2% from a year earlier to NT$107 million (US$3.58 million) in the first quarter of 2020...
Friday 8 May 2020
Memxpro releases 32GB native industrial DDR4-3200 DRAM
The coronavirus outbreak has deferred the global 5G network rollout, even though demand remains high. Memxpro, a leading industrial DRAM module and SSD solution provider, formally...