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Wednesday 23 March 2022
Pico, Goertek bullish on VR
China-based Internet platform company ByteDance acquired virtual reality (VR) startup Pico in August 2021, merging it with its VR business. The move is similar to Facebook's acquisition...
Wednesday 23 March 2022
New Nvidia GPU fabbed by TSMC with 4nm process
Nvidia has announced its next-generation accelerated computing platform with Hopper architecture, dubbed H100 GPU, which is built using TSMC's 4nm (N4) process customized for the...
Wednesday 23 March 2022
MSI expects record revenue in 2022
Motherboard and graphics card maker Micro-Star International (MSI) expects to see its revenue hit bottom for 2022 in the second quarter, with revenue for the year set to hit another...
Wednesday 23 March 2022
Quanta to ship automotive MPUs to tier-1 OEs in US, Europe in 2H22
Taiwan-based Quanta Computer has been working on improving its line of automotive products for years and is expected to start shipping automotive micro processor units (MPU) to European...
Tuesday 22 March 2022
Handset assemblers look to 5G phones to revive market
Suppliers in the handset industry tend to be "cautiously optimistic" about 2022 sales, and they expect 5G phones to revive the market, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 22 March 2022
Leadframe supplier CWTC sees order visibility extended to 2023
Leadframe supplier Chang Wah Technology (CWTC) has seen the visibility of orders from its IDM customers for automotive and industrial applications extended to 2023, according to the...
Tuesday 22 March 2022
TSMC to see orders for auto chips ramp up
TSMC is expected to see orders for automotive electronics chips rise at a faster-than-expected pace, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 22 March 2022
Lite-On to hike output for EV charging piles
Electronics manufacturing services provider Lite-On Technology will substantially boost its output of electric vehicle (EV) charging piles in 2022 despite the ongoing shortage of...
Tuesday 22 March 2022
NAND flash chipmakers step up controller chip purchases
NAND flash chip vendors including Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology have moved to increase more of their controller chip production to third-party suppliers, such as Phison...
Tuesday 22 March 2022
Server chip and component shortages likely to carry through 2022
Server-use chips and components remain in extremely tight supply, and their shortage will be more severe than that of notebook components and may stay unresolved through the end of...
Monday 21 March 2022
Japan's carmakers betting on all-solid-state battery
While the lithium-ion battery is widely used in electric vehicles (EV), the technology offers a limited driving range. The all-solid-state battery looks the most promising among all...
Monday 21 March 2022
Electronics makers optimistic about server demand in 2022
Electronics product makers will return to basics in their evaluation of the 2022 PC market. Shipments, which were originally expected to grow, are now expected to remain flat or fall...
Monday 21 March 2022
Elan gearing up to develop automotive ICs
Taiwan-based Elan Microelectronics, specializing in touchpad controllers for notebook applications, is gearing up to accelerate the development of automotive ICs by gathering all...
Monday 21 March 2022
Silicon wafer suppliers continue to see orders from foundries despite end-market slowdown concerns
Silicon wafer companies and other upstream chipmaking material providers continue to see their production capacities fully utilized by the still strong pull-in of orders from foundries,...
Monday 21 March 2022
Competition in automotive CIS heats up with more entrants
The rapid growth of automotive CMOS image sensors (CIS) has caused more security monitoring and consumer electronics manufacturers to enter the market.