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Friday 4 August 2023
Lite-on sees automotive electronics business on track to grow
Electronics company Lite-on has transitioned its business focus successfully to automobile and cloud-based servers as the consumer electronics market stays sluggish. President Anson...
Friday 4 August 2023
Elan aims to perform better in 2024 than 2Q23 and 3Q23
Elan, a major manufacturer of touch IC, has reported strong 2Q23 performance that outpaced initial financial projections. The company attributed this success to a solid stream of...
Friday 4 August 2023
Taiwan audio IC specialists increase focus on gaming, business PC applications
Taiwanese audio IC manufacturers continue to increase high-end product deployments, targeting gaming and commercial PCs, according to industry sources.
Friday 4 August 2023
Apple's iPhone sales hit by FX fluctuation
Apple reported declining sales for the past quarter, indicating a dwindling smartphone demand. Apple attributed it partly to foreign exchange fluctuations and said the company broke...
Friday 4 August 2023
Apple to be hit by India's surprising restriction on notebooks and tablets imports
Ahead of the once-in-a-year festive season, India surprisingly announced the imposition of imported PCs, including notebooks and tablets, a move likely to discourage the imports of...
Friday 4 August 2023
Infineon to build 200mm SiC fab in Malaysia
The trend toward decarbonization will lead to robust market growth for power semiconductors, particularly those based on materials with wide bandgaps. According to Infineon Technologies,...
Thursday 3 August 2023
China foundries enhancing mature node manufacturing capability for automotive chips
Chinese foundries including CanSemi Technology, GTA Semiconductor, and Nexchip Semiconductor have stepped up enhancing their mature-node manufacturing capability for automotive ICs,...
Thursday 3 August 2023
Advantech expects revenue slowdown in 2H23, stressing healthy profit margins
Advantech, a leading industrial computer (IPC) manufacturer, anticipates a decline in revenue to USD$480–500 million in Q3 this year due to client destocking and the sluggish...
Thursday 3 August 2023
Automotive semiconductor becomes the only driving force for Rohm
Japan-based Rohm Semiconductor saw its operating profits decline by 21.5% in April–June 2023. Its automotive sales increased by 14.9% year-over-year, the only segment that enjoyed...
Thursday 3 August 2023
CCL firm Iteq upbeat about demand for high-end car electronics
Iteq, which specializes in high-speed and high-frequency copper-clad laminates (CCL), remains optimistic about demand for high-end automotive electronics and believes its deployment...
Thursday 3 August 2023
Inventec develops processor IP in-house
Inventec has successfully developed its AI accelerator IP in-house and already has interest from two IC design house customers, according to industry sources. Tapeout is expected...
Thursday 3 August 2023
AMD to adopt TSMC 3D SoIC tech in gaming notebook processors, say sources
AMD plans to incorporate TSMC's 3D SoIC (system on integrated circuits) stacking and chiplet packaging technology into its gaming notebook processors, following the company's implementation...
Wednesday 2 August 2023
Intel CEO: AI PC era to emerge in the fall of 2023, rivaling importance of Centrino
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has said at a recent earnings call conference that AI PC will serve as a crucial inflection point for the PC market over the coming years that will rival the...
Wednesday 2 August 2023
Weebit Nano's ReRAM module qualified for automotive grade temperature
Israel-based memory maker Weebit Nano has fully qualified its Resistive Random-Access Memory (ReRAM) module up to 125 degrees Celsius, the temperature specified for automotive grade...
Wednesday 2 August 2023
Coretronic expects quarterly growth in Q3 amid economic slowdown
Coretronic projects a 10–20% rise in quarterly shipments for its two major product lines in the upcoming peak Q3, compared to Q2. However, due to the sluggish economy, both...