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Monday 21 January 2019
2018 review and 2019 outlook: Toshiba Memory revving up to boost competitiveness
Japan-based Toshiba Memory Corp (TMC), now the world's No. 2 supplier of NAND flash memory chips with nearly 20% market share, is striving at full throttles to rival top supplier...
Friday 18 January 2019
Demand for 7nm fabrication to surge when 5G chips become available
More mobile SoC suppliers are expected to start sampling their 5G-capable solutions at the end of 2019, which will spur further demand for 7nm fabrication processes at foundries,...
Friday 18 January 2019
IC backend service houses may see shipment pickup in mid-2019
Taiwan backend service providers are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward their business prospects for 2019 amid a spate of undesirable factors including the volatile US-China tariff...
Thursday 17 January 2019
AI, 5G to boost penetration of HDI PCBs in notebooks
Notebooks are getting smart along with growing application of 5G and AI technologies, driving up demand for high-density interconnect (HDI) PCBs to support upgrades in designs, according...
Thursday 17 January 2019
2018 review and 2019 outlook: New applications driving server industry growth
Emerging technologies and applications such as artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and 5G have driven server shipment growths in the past few...
Wednesday 16 January 2019
Handset PCB makers moving to develop high-end board materials
Despite sales growth stagnancy for smartphones, handset PCB suppliers are moving to develop high-end board materials as they believe handsets still have great room for sales growth...
Monday 14 January 2019
Inventec taps into 5G, automotive eletronics sectors
Taiwan notebook ODM Inventec saw its annual revenues soar past the NT$500 billion (US$16.20 billion) for the first time ever to reach NT$506.87 billion in 2018, up 8.42% on year....
Monday 14 January 2019
2018 review and 2019 outlook: PCB makers see new applications as growth driver
Taiwan PCB makers enjoyed strong growth in 2018 in shipments of their flexible boards, rigid-flex boards and substrate-like PCBs to new application sectors of datacenter servers and...
Monday 14 January 2019
WPG, WT Micro post record 2018 revenues
IC distributors WPG and WT Microelectronics both saw their December revenues register double-digit sequential decreases, but their revenues for all of 2018 still hit record-high le...
Friday 11 January 2019
Taiwan GDP growth to slow to less than 3% in 2019
Taiwan's gross domestic product (GDP) growth will likely slow to less than 3% in 2019, a performance lower than 2018, requiring major government efforts to expand domestic demand...
Friday 11 January 2019
Chipmakers gearing up to develop 802.11ax chip solutions
Qualcomm and MediaTek have both introduced their new 802.11ax chip solutions to support Wi-Fi 6 devices, seeking to secure a preemptive presence in both enterprise and household network...
Thursday 10 January 2019
2018 review and 2019 outlook: Heterogeneous chips integration spurs demand for system-3D backend solutions
Heterogeneous integration of diverse semiconductor components to support 5G, AI, automotive electronics, and IoT applications is gaining significant momentum, driving demand for SiP...
Thursday 10 January 2019
Taiwan networking specialists highlight 5G, IoT applications at CES 2019
As part of their efforts to embrace the 5G era, many Taiwan network equipment makers including Sercomm, Zyxel Communications and Wistron NeWeb (WNC) are showcasing the latest 5G and...
Thursday 10 January 2019
Taiwan MLCC firms see revenues fall in December
MLCC specialists Yageo, Walsin Technology and Holy Stone Enterprise have reported sequential decreases in consolidated revenues for December 2018 of 15.7%, 24.7% and 36.4%, respect...
Wednesday 9 January 2019
CCL maker Iteq expects orders for 5G infrastructure to pull in later in 1H19
Copper-clad laminate (CCL) specialist Iteq expects orders for 5G infrastructure to pull in from China following the Lunar New Year holiday that ends in early February, with the orders...