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Monday 27 November 2023
Automotive electronics become key to survival for China's self-designed chips
Moore Silicon, a chip subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned electronics company TCL, is the latest dissolved in-house IC design team of a technology conglomerate in China after Oppo's...
Monday 27 November 2023
IC design houses grapple with unrelenting price-reduction pressures from customers and high raw material costs
While positive about their revenue performance returning to a growth track with high expectations for an economic upswing in 2024, most IC design houses in Taiwan continue to face...
Monday 27 November 2023
Challenges remain as system integrators self-developed chips against established IC design houses
As the AI era arrives, cloud service providers (CSP) have increasingly recognized the importance of high-performance computing (HPC) chips, and system integrators, hardware manufacturers,...
Monday 27 November 2023
Major suppliers preparing for fast-growing Wi-Fi 7 penetration rate in 2024
Although the overall networking IC sector is still in the inventory clearance phase and shipment momentum has not fully recovered, major platform operators are still intensifying...
Monday 27 November 2023
India gains EU support in strengthening chip supply chain alongside US and Japan backing
As India strives to establish its burgeoning semiconductor supply chain, it has secured backing from the European Union, adding to the support already received from the United States...
Monday 27 November 2023
Weekly news roundup: Micron and GlobalFoundries hit by US trade sanction shockwave and other top stories
These are the most-read articles during the week of November 20-24:
Friday 24 November 2023
What does GaN's future lie ahead with ongoing patent dispute between EPC, Innoscience?
Gallium nitride (GaN) has not been able to gain much traction compared to silicon carbide (SiC), another power semiconductor material. In May, US-based Efficient Power Conversion...
Friday 24 November 2023
Autonomy still the main tone in the latest China International Semiconductor Summit
At the recently concluded 2023 China International Semiconductor Summit attended by more than 2,000 industry professionals, both Wei Shaojun, Director of the Institute of Microelectronics...
Friday 24 November 2023
Compeq sees customer inquiry for its PCB site in Thailand, sales recovering from doldrum
Compeq Manufacturing, a major high-density interconnect (HDI) printed circuit board (PCB) producer, said its third-quarter 2023 sales revenues and earnings are showing early signs...
Friday 24 November 2023
Foxconn set to benefit from Nvidia's new venture into AI factories
In addition to its strong financial results, Nvidia is also actively exploring new business models such as AI factories or AI manufacturing to enhance profitability further. Once...
Friday 24 November 2023
TSMC, MediaTek to present neural vision enhancement papers at ISSCC 2024
Individual and collaborative efforts of TSMC and MediaTek are to mark Taiwan's representation at the upcoming 2024 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC).
Friday 24 November 2023
ESMT scaling up wafer starts at foundries
Niche memory IC design house Elite Semiconductor Memory Technology (ESMT) has scaled up wafer starts at foundries, and its customers are more ready to negotiate long-term contracts,...
Friday 24 November 2023
Chinese EV makers seeking partners for advanced chip development
More Chinese electric vehicle (EV) businesses are developing advanced sub-7nm chips in-house and are looking to Taiwan for ASIC and foundry partners, according to industry sources...
Friday 24 November 2023
Supply chain hopes upcoming AMD MI300 GPU can challenge Nvidia's dominance
The supply chain hopes that the forthcoming AMD MI300 GPU can pose some challenge to Nvidia, preventing it from having excessive control in the AI sector, according to industry sou...
Thursday 23 November 2023
Chemtronics to expand EUV photoresist material production in South Korea
Chemtronics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Illinois Tool Works Inc., announced an investment of KRW17 billion (US$13.08 million) to expand its capacity of ultra-high concentration...