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Friday 24 December 2021
Liquid cooling to hit golden cross with air cooling in two years, says Kaori CEO
With liquid cooling solutions especially immersive ones expected to turn more popular in the server, switch and datacenter industries, Allen Wu, CEO of Kaori Heat Treatment, expects...
Friday 24 December 2021
Mobo and graphics card makers to embrace strong 1Q22
Taiwan-based motherboard and graphics card makers are poised to enjoy a particularly strong first quarter of 2022, as shortages of processors start easing and demand remains strong...
Friday 24 December 2021
Clevo expects 2021 shipments to top 2 million units
Notebook, tablet, and PC ODM Clevo expects its shipments to exceed two million units in 2021, while the volumes in 2022 will register a double-digit increase, buoyed by strong demand...
Friday 24 December 2021
Molding compounds to see worst crunch among packaging materials in 2022
Taiwan-based OSATs will experience mixed supply of packaging materials, with molding compounds to see the worst crunch beyond ABF substrates, and wirebonding leadframes and DAF (die...
Friday 24 December 2021
2021 Asia tech M&A deals and values hit new high
Technology merger and acquisition activities accelerated in 2021 and deals in Asia broke the US$100 billion mark for the first time in history, totaling US$137.3 billion, up 86.3%...
Thursday 23 December 2021
NDK shuts 2 quartz plants in Malaysia due to flood damage
NDK has to suspend production at its two plants for quartz crystal and crystal blank components in Malaysia due to damages caused by floods locally.
Thursday 23 December 2021
Supply-side constraints challenging education laptops supply, says Microsoft Taiwan
Supply-side constraints, rather than demand weakening, are challenging the global supply of education-use notebooks and tablets including Chromebooks and Microsoft's Surface Go series,...
Thursday 23 December 2021
Taiwan OSATs upbeat about orders for automotive, commercial chips
Taiwan-based IC backend houses have seen their international customers scale up orders for processing midrange and high-end chips for automotive and commercial device applications,...
Thursday 23 December 2021
Automotive UI/UX design receives industry attention
In-vehicle user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) design has attracted more attention from automakers recently as they try to unlock the full potential of software-defined vehicles...
Wednesday 22 December 2021
Highlights of the day: Apple suppliers ship new 27-inch iMac
Apple's suppliers have started shipments of the new 27-inch iMac, but the device does not come with a miniLED display...
Wednesday 22 December 2021
Suppliers start shipments for 27-inch iMac without miniLED display
Suppliers have kicked off their shipments in small volume for the new 27-inch iMac set for launch in 2022, but the device will not come with a miniLED display as previoulsy speculated,...
Wednesday 22 December 2021
Car-use thermal material sales to drive Ventec revenue gains in 2022
Taiwan-based Ventec Electronics, dedicated to specialty copper-clad laminates (CCL) and thermal materials, expects shipments of high-performance thermal substrate materials for automotive...
Wednesday 22 December 2021
Acer chairman eyes component supply improvement in 1Q22
Acer chairman Jason Chen believes component shortages will have a chance to improve significantly in the first quarter of 2022.
Wednesday 22 December 2021
Unisoc adopts Imagination AI in 5G chips
Unisoc has used Imagination Technologies' Series3NX neural network accelerator (NNA) IP in its new smartphone 5G platforms - Tanggula T770 and T760 system-on-chips (SoC), according...
Wednesday 22 December 2021
Micron sees AI, 5G and EV drive memory demand growth
Memory and storage revenue has outpaced the rest of the semiconductor industry over the last two decades, according to Sanjay Mehrotra, president and CEO for Micron Technology, who...