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Wednesday 4 September 2019
CHPT to challenge 30-40% sequential revenue rise for 3Q19
IC testing solution provider Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) saw its consolidated revenues for August 2019 increase 7.4% sequentially and 16.1% on year to a record high of NT$367...
Wednesday 4 September 2019
Worldwide OEM semiconductor spending faces biggest decline in a decade
Impacted by softening markets and rising uncertainty in global trade and economy, semiconductor spending of the world's top OEMs will face the steepest decline in a decade. According...
Tuesday 3 September 2019
Unimicron to step up investment for 5G, AI applications
Unimicron Technology has maintained its huge capex budgets for 2019 and 2020 are meant to strengthen its IC substrates technology upgrades and production capacity for the emerging...
Monday 2 September 2019
Keen competition to emerge in high-frequency CCL for 5G AAU applications
Demand for high-frequency and high-speed CCL will rise sharply to support production of multi-layer backboards for AAU (active antenna unit) application at 5G base stations, prompting...
Monday 2 September 2019
Taiwan component makers seek opportunities from 5G and foldable devices
Taiwan-based component makers, despite seeing shrinking demand for notebooks, have found new opportunities from emerging businesses such as foldable smartphones, foldable-screen notebooks...
Friday 30 August 2019
Wus Printed Circuit posts sharp profit rise for 1H19
PCB manufacturer Wus Printed Circuit saw its net profits shoot up over 100% on year in the first half of 2019, thanks mainly to sharp increases in PCB demand for networking equipment,...
Friday 30 August 2019
Backend firms eyeing COF orders for ultraslim optical fingerprint ID chips
As super-slim in-display optical fingerprint sensor chips will see increasing penetration in 5G smartphones, Taiwan's IC backend service firms including ASE Technology Holding, ChipMos...
Thursday 29 August 2019
Highlights of the day: Huawei and 5G edge
Development of 5G technologies and products has become a key direction for Huawei's operation with its orders for 5G-related...
Thursday 29 August 2019
Hisilicon likely to be biggest client of TSMC
Huawei's chipmaking arm Hisilicon is expected to become not only the largest Asia-based fabless chipmaker but also TSMC's biggest client in 2020, according to industry sources.
Thursday 29 August 2019
Advantest positive about testing demand for 5G SoC, memory
Testing demand for high-end 5G SoCs has emerged and that for memory chips is set to pick up in early 2020, which will drive revenue increases at Advantest, a major Japan-based supplier...
Thursday 29 August 2019
Huawei ramping up chip demand for 5G base stations
Huawei has been ramping up orders for chips used in its 5G base station equipment, according to sources at backend houses, which expect the China-based player's chip demand to remain...
Thursday 29 August 2019
Huawei holds key to 5G market reaching 160 million in 2020, says Strategy Analytics
Global sales of 5G smartphones will reach 160 million in 2020 if 5G takes off as expected in China, according to Strategy Analytics. Huawei is best positioned to capture the majority...
Thursday 29 August 2019
Cooling solutions providers to expand capacities on 5G smartphone demand
Cooling module makers including Auras Technology, Chaun-Choung Technology (CCI) and Taisol Electronics are all moving to expand their capacities for vapor chambers (VCs) to cash in...
Wednesday 28 August 2019
MediaTek gearing up for volume production of single-chip 5G chips
MediaTek has started delivering samples of its first single-chip 5G solution designed for sub-6GHz networks, and expects volume production of the chip to kick off in the first quarter...
Wednesday 28 August 2019
Micron on track to kick off 1znm DRAM production in Taiwan
Micron Technology is already engaged in risk production of DRAM chips built using 1z-nanometer process technology at its Hiroshima fab in Japan, according to the US memory chip vendor...