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Thursday 28 January 2021
Automotive chip suppliers queuing up for capacity support
Automotive chip suppliers are queuing up for capacity support from foundries, particularly 8-inch ones, and may be prompted to accept higher quotes for more capacity, according to...
Thursday 28 January 2021
Google sets up hardware R&D base in Taiwan
Google on January 27 started using its new office in northern Taiwan, which is the largest hardware R&D base outside the US and the first overseas one, according to Google Taiw...
Thursday 28 January 2021
Taiwan urged to focus on quantum computer hardware initially
Felix Gwo, director of the Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, has noted that Taiwan should focus on optimizing the hardware as the initial target in the development of...
Wednesday 27 January 2021
Microsoft optimistic about business transformation in Taiwan
Ken Sun, president of Microsoft Taiwan, has expressed optimism about business transformation of Taiwan's enterprises, as its joint research with IDC shows that the maturity of Taiwan's...
Tuesday 26 January 2021
Testing house Sigurd set to acquire UTAC Taiwan
Sigurd Microelectronics has announced plans to wholly acquire fellow IC assembly and test service company UTAC Taiwan for NT$4.62 billion (US$165 million), and expects to complete...
Tuesday 26 January 2021
Taiwan December manufacturing production hits record
Taiwan recorded manufacturing production index (2016 as base year) of 131.52 for December 2020, the highest-ever monthly level with growths of 5.60% sequentially and 10.41% on year,...
Tuesday 26 January 2021
Taiwan makers step up miniLED-backlit automotive displays development
Taiwan-based LED firms Everlight Electronics and Lextar Electronics, and LCD panel makers Innolux and AU Optronics (AUO) are stepping up efforts developing miniLED-backlit LCD automotive...
Monday 25 January 2021
Taiwan IC design houses slow new chip development due to foundry capacity shortage
Taiwan-based IC design houses, including MediaTek, continue to encounter tight capacity at their foundry partners and have to decelerate the development of their new chip products...
Monday 25 January 2021
Smart driving industry alliance to promote autonomous buses in Taiwan
Five Taiwan-based companies and government-sponsored Automotive Research & Testing Center will form an intelligent driving industry alliance to promote autonomous buses for public...
Friday 22 January 2021
Rohm ramping up SiC power device output
Rohm recently held an opening ceremony announcing the completion of a new building at its Apollo plant in Chikugo, Japan. The facility is to enhance the company's production capacity...
Friday 22 January 2021
Kinsus to expand ABF substrate capacity by 30% in 2021
Taiwan-based IC substrate maker Kinsus Interconnect Technology plans to restore a fire-hit flexible PCB (FPCB) plant in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan, and convert it to produce ABF substrates...
Friday 22 January 2021
TSMC, NTU expand R&D partnership to quantum materials
TSMC and National Taiwan University (NTU) have expanded their collaboration in technology development to quantum materials research.
Friday 22 January 2021
Pegatron sees slowdown in orders for iPhone 12 mini
Pegatron has seen a slowdown in orders for the iPhone 12 mini as sales of the model in the US and Europe are affected negatively by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to industry sou...
Friday 22 January 2021
Taiwan IC design houses likely to see sales growth constrained in 1Q21
With foundry capacity staying tight, coupled with longer delivery lead times at backend houses, Taiwan-based IC design houses are likely to see their sales growth constrained in the...
Thursday 21 January 2021
Taiwan December export orders hit record
Taiwan-based makers received export orders totaling US$60.55 billion in December 2020, hitting a monthly record for the fourth consecutive month with increases of 4.8% sequentially...