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Monday 19 June 2023
TSMC sees major clients restart order placements for 2024, advanced process utilization rebounding
TSMC has seen its capacity utilization rates for advanced processes below 7nm rebound slowly since June, and is poised to embrace a new wave of chip demand growth in 2024 as major...
Monday 19 June 2023
Will third-generation semiconductors offer a different future for 6-inch silicon wafers?
Six-inch SiC wafers are seeing demand growth and decline at the same time. On the one hand, there is the need to upgrade four-inch to six-inch wafers. On the other hand, customers...
Monday 19 June 2023
Small-sized silicon wafers fade out as demand remains weak
The low-level demand for ICT and consumer electronics has significantly impacted the outlook of four-inch and five-inch silicon wafers. Some semiconductor companies even said the...
Monday 19 June 2023
AI competition both domestic and international as Naver aims for niche market in Japan
South Korean IT giant Naver is reportedly planning to export its AI retrieval and search technology to Japan. With the advent of generative AI, the Japanese market can become the...
Monday 19 June 2023
Tesla and Volkswagen reach milestone in respective battery technologies
Carmakers are scaling up their battery technologies to support the growing EV business. Tesla just announced the output of its 4680 battery cell had achieved 10 million at Gigafactory...
Monday 19 June 2023
Competition in automotive SoC market heats up
As the research and development trends in the automotive industry evolve, chip design companies are adapting their strategies accordingly. Non-traditional automotive chip providers,...
Monday 19 June 2023
MediaTek denies rumored TPU cooperation with Google
Chipmaker MediaTek has denied a report that it is coooperating with Google to work on its in-house developed Tensor Processing Unit (TPUs).
Monday 19 June 2023
India roundup: India reportedly requires Chinese smartphone manufacturers to Indianize
As India leaps frog in mobile phone manufacturing, Chinese smartphone manufacturers, already under regulatory scrutiny, were reportedly asked by India to be more Indian. Meanwhile,...
Friday 16 June 2023
Wistron steps up global manufacturing deployments
Wistron will be aggressively advancing its worldwide manufacturing deployments in response to geopolitical shifts, according to Simon Lin, chairman for the Taiwan-based ODM company...
Friday 16 June 2023
Delta to purchase Germany-based TB&C to expand EV product portfolio
Taiwan-based Delta Electronics announced on June 15 that it will purchase Germany-based TB&C Group, which focuses on automotive high-voltage hybrid components. The deal is expected...
Friday 16 June 2023
The 'razor and blades' of IoT
I have observed that in the development process of smart IoT (Internet of Things), most companies want to sell expensive IoT and big data solutions to customers, which is like putting...
Friday 16 June 2023
Volkswagen brand targets EUR10 billion earning increase in 2026 under new performance program
Volkswagen Passenger Cars announced a performance program on June 14 that is expected to facilitate its electrification. The company aims to improve earnings by EUR10 billion (US$10.9...
Friday 16 June 2023
Edge AI will shape all aspects of MediaTek business
The global AI market is expanding at a rapid and unprecedented pace, transforming the semiconductor industry at the same time. As the demand for high-performance chips increases with...
Friday 16 June 2023
AMD backend partners gearing up for new processors
TSMC, ASE Technology and Tongfu Microelectronics (TFME), as well as test interface specialists WinWay Technology and Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) are all gearing up for shipments...
Thursday 15 June 2023
Horizon says development efficiency is the key to expanding from self-driving chips to software
Horizon Robotics is one of the few automotive-grade AI chip companies in China. Founder and CEO Kai Yu recently said software maturity can decide a business's life or death. As intelligent...