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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...
Tuesday 21 December 2021
LCD panel maker Giantplus sees brisk order visibility for 1H22
Small- to medium-size LCD panel and module maker Giantplus Technology has seen brisk order visibility for the first half of 2022, with industrial and niche-market products accounting...
Tuesday 21 December 2021
Genesis Photonics sues Apple for patent infringement
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Genesis Photonics has filed with Taiwan's Intellectual Property and Commercial Court a charge against Apple for alleged infringement of nine patents...
Monday 20 December 2021
USB-C to become standard in enterprise notebooks in 2022
The USB Type-C (USB-C) interface is expected to become standard in the 2022 notebook market, which will benefit Taiwan-based transmission interface, USB power delivery (PD) chip and...
Monday 20 December 2021
Himax 2nd-gen automotive TDDI adopted by new vehicles worldwide
Himax Technologies has announced that its second-generation automotive in-cell TDDI (touch and display driver integration), HX83192 series, entered mass production in the third quarter...
Friday 17 December 2021
Radiant conservative about 2022 operation
LED backlight unit (BLU) maker Radiant Opto-Electronics is conservative about its 2022 business operation mainly because global demand for notebooks and LCD monitors is likely to...