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Monday 1 October 2018
Memory market growth promising: Q&A with Apacer president CK Chang
The memory-chip market exhibited impressive growth in 2017 as undersupply drove up both the DRAM and NAND flash prices. However, oversupply has re-emerged this year casting a shadow...
Friday 28 September 2018
Taiwan gearing up to net annual IC output value of NT$3 trillion by 2021
Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) is aggressively moving to pool cross-domain academic forces to help the semiconductor sector break through bottlenecks seen in the...
Tuesday 25 September 2018
China 5G market unlikely to grow in scale until after 2022, Digitimes Research says
The end-user market for 5G networks in China may not enter a stage with meaningful growth until after 2022, as telecom operators there are aiming to kick off commercial operations...
Friday 21 September 2018
Vietnam boasts great ICT development potentials, says deputy MIC minister
Vietnam has a population of near 100 million and there are over 70 million handset and Internet users, providing a good foundation for stable development of the country's information...
Thursday 20 September 2018
China IC industry to gain solid footing in five years, says Tsinghu Unigroup chairman
China's IC industry is expected to establish a solid foothold in five years and go on to become a top-three or top-four player globally in 2028-2030, according to Zhao Weiguo, chairman...
Tuesday 18 September 2018
Stay focused: Q&A with NXP executive Steve Owen
NXP Semiconductors has gone through several periods of restructuring since its departure from Philips, followed by privatization, and mergers and acquisitions. Steve Owen, executive...
Friday 14 September 2018
Smartphone vendors looking for new thermal management solutions for 5G phones
While preparing to launch 5G-enabled smartphones in the first half of 2019, most major handset vendors are reportedly seeking new thermal management solutions in response to heat...
Wednesday 12 September 2018
KLA-Tencor seeing robust fab tool demand from China
Demand from China's semiconductor industry is set to witness robust growth, according to fab toolmaker KLA-Tencor, which expects China to become its largest market in 2019.
Tuesday 11 September 2018
Taiwan IC firms enforcing capacity expansions with imported equipment
Taiwan's machinery imports are expected to see sharp increases in the second half of 2018, as suppliers of silicon wafers, memory and passive components have started to take delivery...
Tuesday 11 September 2018
CHPT optimistic about probe card demand for AI, 5G
Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) has expressed optimism about semiconductor probe card demand for AI and 5G applications.
Friday 7 September 2018
Ericsson strengthens end-to-end transport solutions for 5G
With 5G use cases placing more demanding requirements on the networks, Ericsson is strengthening its end-to-end mobile transport solutions by building on its radio expertise and adding...
Wednesday 5 September 2018
FCBGA substrate supply tight on packaging demand for pre-5G chips
Taiwan IC backend service firms have seen increasing flip-chip packaging orders from China chipmaker HiSilicon now actively carrying out volume production of pre-5G chip products,...
Tuesday 4 September 2018
Chipmakers slowing down transition to sub-10nm technology
With sub-10nm node manufacturing requiring huge capex, a number of foundries have slowed down their investment pace while fabless chipmakers stick with 14/12nm products for cost reasons...
Thursday 30 August 2018
Taiwan network chipmakers ramping up shipments to US, China
Taiwan suppliers of network communication chips are busy ramping up their shipments to fulfill increasing orders from web giants, cloud service providers and datacenter operators...
Tuesday 28 August 2018
ShunSin to step up diversification efforts
Backend house ShunSin Technology, a subsidiary of Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) specializing in system-in-package (SiP) modules, will be stepping up its diversification...