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Tuesday 27 December 2022
Taiwan SiC substrate suppliers need high-yield crystal growth to compete with fellow makers
High-yield crystal growth is crucial to Taiwanese SiC substrate suppliers competing with their Chinese counterparts, according to industry sources.
Monday 26 December 2022
Toyota hits record November output, but shortages loom
Toyota Motor said on Monday its global output hit a record for November, thanks in part to solid consumer demand, though it warned of an uncertain outlook due to a persistent shortage...
Monday 26 December 2022
Taiwan memory module suppliers doing well in inventory depletion
While upstream memory suppliers could hardly avoid losses through the first half of 2023 amid extended inventory corrections and spot market price falls, downstream module makers...
Monday 26 December 2022
Taiwan PCB makers record strong 3Q22 results
Taiwan-based PCB makers' total output reached NT$249.2 billion (US$8.198 billion) in third-quarter 2022, hitting the highest-ever third-quarter level, according to Taiwan Printed...
Monday 26 December 2022
LG Display to end production of TV LCD panels in South Korea
LG Display (LGD) will end the production of TV LCD panels at its P7 plant in Paju, South Korea, ahead of the original schedule in late January 2023, ending production of all such...
Monday 26 December 2022
TXOne eyes leadership in supply chain cybersecurity technology
Taiwan-based TXOne Networks, an industrial control system (ICS) and industrial IoT (IIoT) security startup jointly founded by Trend Micro and Moxa, has newly set up an OT (operational...
Monday 26 December 2022
Launch of TSMC 3nm process mass production underway
TSMC is scheduled to hold a ceremony at Fab 18 at the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) on December 29 to mark the start of commercial production of chips using 3nm process technology...
Friday 23 December 2022
All eyes on Samsung's memory output
With the memory sector experiencing a severe downturn, market attention has been refocused on whether Samsung Electronics will announce production cuts by the end of 2022 or in early...
Friday 23 December 2022
Taiwan IC design houses refrain from initiating layoffs, bonus suspension
International semiconductor players are enforcing layoffs and other drastic control measures amid lingering market headwinds, but Taiwan's IC design houses are taking a wait-and-see...
Friday 23 December 2022
SD-WAN demand on the rise: Q&A with Aruba Networks Taiwan VP Alex Chen
In a multi-cloud environment, heavy WAN (wide area network) traffic has resulted in low efficiency in network management and information security risks. Software-defined (SD) WAN...
Thursday 22 December 2022
What TSMC CEO CC Wei says about the semiconductor industry (2)
TSMC CEO CC Wei was taking questions at an event when Nicky Lu, vice chairman of Monte Jade Science and Technology Association, recalled that a few years ago, TSMC founder Morris...
Thursday 22 December 2022
Taiwan Cement pushes off-peak EV power charging
NHOA.TCC, Taiwan Cement's (TCC) subsidiary operator of green energy services, has called for electric vehicle (EV) owners/drivers to act as Earth Helper by charging EVs during time...
Thursday 22 December 2022
Samsung chairman's Vietnam visit draws speculation about chip investment
Samsung Electronics executive chairman Jae-yong Jay Lee visited Vietnam to participate in the opening ceremony of the company's research and development center in the Southeast Asian...
Wednesday 21 December 2022
XING Mobility testing immersion cooling battery-based energy storage systems in Japan
XING Mobility, a Taiwan-based developer of immersion cooling battery packs, has cooperated with Japan-based measurement instrument maker NF Holdings to test energy storage systems...
Wednesday 21 December 2022
US Department of Energy accelerates clean-hydrogen technology
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced its intent to issue US$750 million in funding to reduce the cost of clean-hydrogen technology.