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Thursday 29 October 2020
Fire strikes Unimicron IC substrate plant in northern Taiwan
Unimicron Technology's IC substrate plant in Taoyuan, northern Taiwan caught fire on the afternoon of October 28. The site is where the company produces flip-chip chip-scale packaging...
Thursday 29 October 2020
Zeiss targets vision care market in Taiwan
Germany-based Zeiss is beefing up its operations in Taiwan, targeting the vision care market.
Thursday 29 October 2020
Kioxia to build new fab for 3D flash manufacturing
Kioxia has announced it will begin to construct a fabrication facility, dubbed Fab 7, at its factory site in Yokkaichi, Japan to expand production of its proprietary 3D flash memory...
Wednesday 28 October 2020
IC designers see swelling China demand for image processing chips
Taiwan IC designers have seen orders swelling from China for imaging processing chips for surveillance, video conferencing and face ID applications as major Chinese chip maker HiSilicon...
Wednesday 28 October 2020
Diode maker TSC to partner with UMC for SGT MOSFET chips
Diode maker Taiwan Semiconductor Company (TSC) will team up with foundry house UMC to develop and manufacture SGT (split-gate) MOSFET chips for automotive and industrial applications,...
Tuesday 27 October 2020
Taiwan driver IC backend houses gaining from Samsung exit from LCD
Taiwan's driver IC backend firms have seen small-volume rush orders as a result of Samsung Electronics' gradual exit from the LCD panel market, according to industry sources said.
Tuesday 27 October 2020
Huawei to see tablet shipments shrink in 2021, says Digitimes Research
Huawei will see its tablet shipments in 2021 undermined by the US trade sanctions as the Chinese brand is unable to obtain processors from Qualcomm or MediaTek, or outsource in-house...
Tuesday 27 October 2020
VIA to sell part of x86 processor IPs to Zhaoxin
Zhaoxin Semiconductor, formed in 2013 as a joint venture between Taiwan's VIA Technologies and China's Shanghai government, will own part of VIA's x86 processor IP assets.
Tuesday 27 October 2020
Microsoft to build Azure datacenter, cloud hardware R&D team in Taiwan
Microsoft has announced plans to build a data center in Taiwan and grow a local team dedicated to the development of Azure cloud hardware and infrastructure, which is expected to...
Tuesday 27 October 2020
Taiwan IT panel shipments to remain in high gear in 4Q20
Taiwan's panel makers will be able to maintain their shipment momentum for IT panels in the fourth quarter of 2020 although their combined ratio to global shipments is likely to edge...
Tuesday 27 October 2020
NOR flash likely to be in short supply in 2021, says Macronix chairman
The global supply of NOR flash memory will fall short of demand in 2021 if trade tensions between the US and China persist, according to Macronix International chairman Miin Wu.
Tuesday 27 October 2020
Taiwan MLCC makers see big order momentum for 5G phones
Taiwan-based MLCC specialists including Yageo and Walsin Technology have seen increasing orders for 5G smartphone applications, and are optimistic about their growth prospects for...
Tuesday 27 October 2020
SPARK Taiwan helps TMU medical startup teams commercialize research results
Keeping abreast with rapid advances in medical care technologies around the world, the Taiwan government has been actively fostering domestic university research projects. As part...
Tuesday 27 October 2020
GlobalPlatform engaging Taiwan eco-system for global collaboration on IoT cybersecurity standard
GlobalPlatform, together with Winbond Electronics Corporation, Arm and Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), hosted the first technology forum in Taiwan. With a mix of...
Monday 26 October 2020
Taiwan makers urged to build high-end IC substrate ecosystem
A sound ecosystem for high-end IC substrates has to be built in Taiwan as such substrates will still have a big role to play in backend services despite the growing demand for substrate-free...