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Tuesday 24 November 2020
Automotive PCB makers see promising demand from Asia
Taiwan's automotive PCB makers have experienced a major change in shipment structures so far this year, with the ratio of shipments to Asia rising significantly and those for the...
Tuesday 24 November 2020
TWCC high-performance computing services boosting Taiwan seismological research
Taiwan is located in Circum-Pacific Belt and has been suffering from frequent earthquakes. The damage caused by large earthquakes is devastating and therefore, seismological study...
Tuesday 24 November 2020
Winstek set to land more backend orders for blockchain AI chips
IC backend service provider Winstek Semiconductor (formerly STATS ChipPAC Taiwan) is expected to see a surge in demand for blockchain-use AI chips in December, according to company...
Monday 23 November 2020
Leadframe orders visibility till 2Q21 on strong auto, 5G applications
Taiwan's leadframe makers including Jih Lin Technology and SDI have seen clear order visibility through the second quarter of 2021 due to a significant recovery in demand for discrete...
Friday 20 November 2020
Accton AI accelerator card shipments to take off in 2021
Network device maker Accton Technology has seen shipments of its AI accelerator cards begin to pick up momentum, expecting related revenues to grow by double-digit in 2021.
Friday 20 November 2020
Dialog intros SmartServer IoT partner ecosystem for edge solutions
Dialog Semiconductor has announced the launch of its SmartServer IoT partner program, which gives system integrators and OEM solutions providers access to the company's edge server...
Thursday 19 November 2020
Nvidia reports record sales for fiscal 3Q21
Nvidia has reported record revenues of US$4.73 billion for the third quarter ended October 25, 2020, up 57% from US$3.01 billion a year earlier, and up 22% from US$3.87 billion in...
Wednesday 18 November 2020
Taiwan power devices vendors upbeat about car applications in 2021
Taiwan's discrete power component supply chain players are optimistic that demand for automotive applications will pick up steadily in 2021 after staying stagnant for quarters, with...
Wednesday 18 November 2020
AI unable to cope with coronavirus pandemic, says Taiwan AI Academy president
Artificial intelligence (AI) has not been of much help tackling the coronavirus pandemic, as there is no historical data on the virus that can be used to train AI models, and data...
Friday 13 November 2020
Macronix, Winbond stepping up automotive NAND deployments
To expand presence in the automotive memory market, Macronix International has disclosed plans to enter volume production of 96-layer 3D NAND memory for automotive applications in...
Friday 13 November 2020
Taiwan to head for smart digital economy, says science minister
Taiwan will focus its next wave of technology development on materializing smart healthcare, precision medicine, smart city and digital data governance by leveraging its robust semiconductor...
Thursday 12 November 2020
Apple M1 threatens Intel
Apple's Arm-based M1 processor featured in the new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac mini is expected to challenge Intel's dominance in the notebook CPU market in the long term, according...
Thursday 12 November 2020
Zhen Ding 4Q20 revenues to hit record quarterly high
Zhen Ding Technology saw its revenues and profits for the first three quarters of 2020 decline over 20% on year, due mainly to delays in shipments at the request of its clients, but...
Wednesday 11 November 2020
IC materials distributors optimistic about 4Q20
Thanks to high capacity utilization at foundry and backend houses, IC materials distributors including Topco Scientific, Wah Lee Industrial and Niching Industrial are all optimistic...
Wednesday 11 November 2020
MediaTek announces new Chromebook chips
MediaTek has unveiled its MT8192 and MT8195 chipsets for the next generation of Chromebooks, with the 7nm MT8192 for mainstream devices and the 6nm MT8195 for premium models.