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Tuesday 20 February 2024
Taiwanese PMIC makers quietly proceeding with deployments in DDR5 applications
Business prospects for DDR5-related power management ICs (PMICs) have long been anticipated, yet significant momentum has yet to materialize. Despite this, optimism pervades the memory...
Tuesday 20 February 2024
Gelsinger's plans to turn Intel around with IDM2.0 and IFS
After leaving Intel for 12 years, former Chief Technology Officer Pat Gelsinger returned in mid-February 2021 to take over as Intel's eighth CEO. However, compared to his tenure from...
Tuesday 20 February 2024
Samsung solidifies leadership in the global DDI market despite prevailing headwinds
Samsung Electronics has emerged as an unrivaled leader in the global display driver IC (DDI) market despite weak end-user demand. In the third quarter of 2023, Samsung secured the...
Tuesday 20 February 2024
Arm, OpenAI, and Softbank showing interest in buying Graphcore
British AI chip startup Graphcore is rumored to be for sale, with the asking price estimated at US$500 million. Arm, SoftBank, and OpenAI are said to be among potential buyers.
Tuesday 20 February 2024
IC design house Macroblock expects recovery in 2024
Macroblock, an LED driver IC design house, is close to finishing recognizing losses from excess inventory and anticipates a business recovery in 2024.
Tuesday 20 February 2024
SDC gears up for 8G IT OLED panel production with Canon Tokki partnership, targeting big clients Apple, Dell, HP
In 2023, Samsung Display (SDC) made waves with its announcement of investing in an 8th-generation (8G) IT OLED panel production line. The company is gearing up to introduce the first...
Tuesday 20 February 2024
Intel rising: Intel squares up to TSMC, underestimates Samsung
Intel will hold its first Wafer Fabrication Services Conference (IFS Direct Connect 2024) in San Jose, California, on February 21.
Tuesday 20 February 2024
Adata expects low-priced inventory to buoy profitability in 2024
Adata Technology holds over NT$20 billion (US$636.4 million) in low-priced chip inventories, which may lift its operating earnings to a new high in 2024, according to the memory module...
Tuesday 20 February 2024
China firms cutting OLED DDI prices
Taiwan-based display driver IC (DDI) suppliers are seeing their quotes undercut by Chinese counterparts, with the pricing pressure even spreading to the basic OLED DDI field, according...
Tuesday 20 February 2024
Backend firm Micro Silicon gearing up for SiC, GaN semiconductor boom
Micro Silicon Electronics, a power IC testing specialist, is targeting further collaboration with Taiwan-based chipmakers and foreign IDMs on gallium nitride (GaN) and silicon carbide...
Monday 19 February 2024
Sony lowers PS5 sales goal amid record CIS shipments
At its latest earnings call event, Sony revealed a downward adjustment to its sales goal for the PlayStation 5 (PS5) console while reporting a new high in CMOS image sensor (CIS)...
Monday 19 February 2024
Taiwanese companies powering game-changing two-wheeler: a conversation with Damon Motors CTO Derek Dorresteyn
Damon Motors, the company transforming electric motorcycles that redefine riding with its award-winning HyperSport, plans to manufacture "well over 50% of the components" for its...
Monday 19 February 2024
Softbank's CEO wants to give British chip designer Arm a hand
SoftBank's CEO Masayoshi Son plans to raise billions of dollars to establish an AI chip company.
Monday 19 February 2024
Weekly news roundup: Nvidia's likely expansion to ASIC service and other top stories
These are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from February 15-18:
Monday 19 February 2024
Biden administration mulls showering Intel with 10 billion greenbacks
The Biden administration is reportedly ready to provide significant subsidies to Intel.