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Monday 2 November 2020
EMC to invest CNY800 million to expand capacity in China
Copper clad laminate (CCL) maker Elite Material (EMC) has disclosed plans to invest about CNY800 million (US$119.6 million) to build additional capacity at its factory site in China's...
Monday 2 November 2020
Taiwan GaAs supply chain, IDMs gearing up for Wi-Fi 6 boom
The Wi-Fi 6 penetration rate is likely to advance to 50-60% in 2021 with the latest wireless communication standard increasingly adopted for handsets, routers and notebooks, prompting...
Monday 2 November 2020
Taiwan 3Q20 economic growth rate hits 9-quarter high, says DGBAS
Taiwan's economic growth rate for the third quarter of 2020 is preliminarily estimated at 3.33%, the highest quarterly level since the third quarter of 2018 and 1.32pp higher than...
Friday 30 October 2020
EV-use charging piles to see strong growth in China
Along with fast growing sales of electric vehicles (EVs), demand for EV-use charging piles in the China market is expected to grow, according to industry sources.
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.