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Tuesday 12 April 2022
Porsche unveils first car assembled outside Europe
Porsche unveiled the very first unit manufactured outside Europe at the end of March. The carmaker established a local joint venture with Malaysian conglomerate Sime Darby in 2020...
Tuesday 12 April 2022
Foundries see fab capacities stay fully utilized
Despite growing concerns about end-market demand slowdowns, pure-play foundries continue to see their fabs fully utilized with no major cutbacks in customer orders, according to industry...
Tuesday 12 April 2022
Taiwan DDI makers facing demand uncertainty in 2Q22
Taiwan-based display driver IC suppliers, most of whom have reported brisk sales results for the first quarter of 2022, are bracing for a challenging second quarter amid demand uncertainty,...
Tuesday 12 April 2022
PSMC to ramp capacity at new 12-inch plant in 3Q23
Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing (PSMC) held recently a beam-raising ceremony to mark the completion of its new 12-inch plant construction at the Tongluo campus of Taiwan's Hsinchu...
Friday 8 April 2022
Taiwan Climate Partnership formed
Eight enterprises in Taiwan have formed Taiwan Climate Partnership (TCP) in a bid to help local ICT supply chain makers save energy in manufacturing processes in line with the international...
Friday 8 April 2022
Taiwan to phase out fossil fuel vehicles by 2040
Taiwan's government has announced a roadmap to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, including goals that all new scooters and passenger cars should be electric or powered by hydrogen...
Friday 8 April 2022
Intel CEO visits Taiwan for additional capacity support from TSMC
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has made a short visit to Taiwan and met with TSMC in an effort to secure not only sub-7nm process manufacturing capacity but also additional 28nm and other...
Thursday 7 April 2022
Taiwan foundries poised to see 1Q22 sales top estimates
Foundries including TSMC and Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) are likely to see their first-quarter revenues hit the high-end of guidance or even beat their estimates, according...
Thursday 7 April 2022
SK Hynix and Solidigm unveil their 1st collaborative product
SK Hynix and Solidigm have unveiled their first collaborative product, a new enterprise solid-state drive (eSSD), which combines the former chipmaker's 128-layer 4D NAND flash with...
Thursday 7 April 2022
Unimicron, Nan Ya PCB see Kunshan lockdown slightly affect April revenues
An extended COVID lockdown in Kunshan, China is not much constraining PCB and IC substrate supply from plants there operated by Taiwan-based makers Unimicron Technology and Nan Ya...
Thursday 7 April 2022
Manufacturers in Kunshan unnerved about lockdown extensions
Taiwan-based companies with plants in China's Kunshan City, such as ODMs Compal Electronics and Wistron, will have to keep their facilities there closed for at least two more days,...
Thursday 7 April 2022
Corporate purchases key to Taiwan offshore wind farms development
As Taiwan aims to increase renewable energy to 20% as a proportion of total power generated in 2025, offshore wind farms play an important role, and in consideration of financial...
Thursday 7 April 2022
Global semiconductor sales increase in February 2022
Worldwide semiconductor sales came to US$52.5 billion in February 2022, up 3.4% sequentially and a robust 32.4% on year, according to data disclosed by the Semiconductor Industry...
Wednesday 6 April 2022
Memory firms cautious about end-market demand prospects
Brand vendors, downstream memory module makers and distributors have all turned cautious about end-market demand prospects this year, judging from disappointing sales of consumer...
Wednesday 6 April 2022
China 5G infrastructure establishment slowing down
China's mobile telecom carriers have slowed down establishment of 5G infrastructure due to COVID impacts and shortage of ICs for fiber-optic communication equipment, leading to weak...