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Tuesday 1 June 2021
GigaDevice eyeing bigger share in TWS earbuds market
NOR flash chipmaker GigaDevice is reportedly ramping up its output at Hua Hong Semiconductor, eyeing a bigger share in the TWS earbuds market segment.
Tuesday 1 June 2021
Taiwan EV component suppliers, 2021
Digitimes Research expects the global EV penetration rate to exceed 20% by 2025 and global EV sales to grow at a CAGR of 40% 2020 through 2025.
Monday 31 May 2021
NXP is yet another vendor striking long-term deal with UMC
NXP Semiconductors is another chip vendor which has struck a long-term deal with United Microelectronics (UMC) under which the pure-play foundry will have some of its newly-established...
Friday 28 May 2021
Taiwan IC design houses see orders pick up for servers
Chip orders for servers and datacenters have started picking up, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC design houses, which expect the orders pull-in momentum to carry on through...
Friday 28 May 2021
Manufacturing: ASEAN vs China
Globalization has changed the ways how supply chains are managed but has also increased risks. Southeast Asia is promising to be a major alternative for supply chains seeking to diversify...
Friday 28 May 2021
Taiwan PCB output value surges 26.7% in 1Q21
Taiwanese PCB makers saw their combined first-quarter 2021 output value at their plants in Taiwan and China surge 26.7% on year to NT$173.4 billion (US$6.11 billion), a record high...
Friday 28 May 2021
Phison buys real estate from Tyntek
NAND flash device controller and module supplier Phison Electronics has announced its takeover of a real estate owned by LED chipmaker Tyntek in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan.
Friday 28 May 2021
Deeplite accelerates time-to-market for AI applications to run on edge devices
In today's world of computer vision AI, there is a significant challenge of running AI models on the limited compute power of edge device chipsets, as they are typically too large,...
Friday 28 May 2021
Samsung, Chinese brands to launch new foldable smartphones in 3Q21
Samsung Electronics and Chinese handset brands, including Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo, all plan to launch foldable smartphones in the third quarter, heating competition in the segment,...
Thursday 27 May 2021
TSMC ramping up output for automotive MCUs
TSMC has disclosed it is ramping up its output for automotive microcontrollers (MCU) for 2021, which will be 60% higher than in 2020.
Thursday 27 May 2021
Another TSMC employee infected with coronavirus
One of TSMC's employees living in New Taipei City has been tested positive for COVID-19, according to the pure-play foundry. The Taiwan-based foundry has seen two employees infected...
Thursday 27 May 2021
JMO expects rising revenue contribution from handset, emerging applications
Zhong Yang Optical (JMO), a specialist in design and manufacture of high-precision optical products, is seeing increasing revenue contribution from handset, automotive and autonomous...
Thursday 27 May 2021
Taiwan III-V IC firms gearing up for car LiDAR demand
Taiwan's III-V semiconductor players including foundry Win Semiconductors and epi-wafer supplier Visual Photonics Epitaxy (VPEC) have cut into the supply chains of major carmakers...
Thursday 27 May 2021
Micron to scale up 1αnm chip output
Micron Technology will soon open its new fab dubbed A3 in Taichung, central Taiwan, with the additional capacity set to boost the output of its DRAM chips built using a newer 1-alpha-nm...
Thursday 27 May 2021
Taiwan PCB makers unlikely to gain from CMK suspending production in Thailand
Japan's major automotive PCB maker CMK has decided to suspend production at its plant in Thailand for one week after 10 employees were infected with COVID-19 virus, but Taiwan-based...