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Wednesday 21 December 2022
TEMC becomes special gas supplier for Samsung as South Korea moves toward self-production
South Korean semiconductor gas manufacturer TEMC has successfully become a supplier for Samsung Electronics. The hope is that this can speed up the progress of achieving material...
Wednesday 21 December 2022
Kyocera to expand with new plant in Japan
Kyocera has announced plans to build a new manufacturing plant in Isahaya, Japan's Nagasaki prefecture, to advance its business expansion goals.
Wednesday 21 December 2022
Taiwan CIS suppliers brace for weak 1H23
Taiwan-based CMOS image sensor suppliers PixArt Imaging and Silicon Optronics expect sales to remain flat in the first half of 2023 before bracing for a significant pick-up in the...
Wednesday 21 December 2022
UMC places NT$13 billion worth of construction orders for new Singapore fab
Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) has placed nearly NT$13.4 billion (US$435 million) worth of construction orders with L&K Engineering's branch in Singapore for...
Tuesday 20 December 2022
Renesas resumes Beijing chip plant production on Dec. 20
Japan-based Renesas Electronics has resumed production at its chip plant in Beijing after a suspension caused...
Tuesday 20 December 2022
Canalys: Western Europe PC demand decline accelerates
Western Europe shipments of notebooks, desktops, and workstations fell by 22% year-on-year to 12.8 million units in Q3 2022, according to Canalys data, reflecting the weakening demand...
Tuesday 20 December 2022
US Treasury to announce IRA battery materials guidance in March 2023
The US' Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will play a fundamental role in scaling up the country's EV market. The US Treasury Department said on December 19 that it will delay the issuance...
Tuesday 20 December 2022
Samsung raises 3D NAND flash prices by 10%
Despite sluggish demand, Samsung raised its NAND flash prices for the first half of December, with 3D NAND flash prices rising by as much as 10%, according to industry sources.
Monday 19 December 2022
Growing COVID cases forces Renesas to suspend Beijing plant
Japan-based Renesas Electronics has halted production at its chip plant in Beijing due to the growing COVID case number at the site. According to media reports, the company has suspended...
Monday 19 December 2022
Global shipments of flexible OLED panels growing amid declining smartphone sale
While global sales of smartphones have decreased, global shipments of smartphone-use flexible OLED panels keep increasing but those of rigid OLED panels have slipped, according to...
Monday 19 December 2022
Enterprises should use more cloud computing in digital transformation, says Google Cloud Taiwan
For enterprises, digital transformation is not just about getting on clouds. Much more important is how to capitalize on cloud computing services and cloud computing-based applications,...
Monday 19 December 2022
Taiwan has advantages of developing perovskite solar cells, says TPSC chairma
While development of perovskite solar cells in Taiwan has lagged behind the US, Japan, China, and some European countries, Taiwan has advantages when ut comes to third-generation...
Monday 19 December 2022
Samsung making major personnel changes, starting with purchasing department
Samsung Electronics has made changes with many of its key personnel in the semiconductor purchasing department. In contrast, the smartphone purchasing department has seen almost no...
Monday 19 December 2022
New Japan chipmaker Rapidus faces challenges to mass produce 2nm chips by 2027
Japan's newly founded advanced chips manufacturing company Rapidus aims to develop 2nm chips mass production technology through cooperation with mainly the US and foray into the foundry...
Monday 19 December 2022
TSMC fab construction in Japan mainly requested by its largest client, says CEO CC Wei
TSMC's decision to build a fab in Japan, though not a low-cost place, was made mainly at the request of its largest client, as prioritizing customer needs has been always the foundry's...