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Tuesday 1 August 2023
Eternal Materials guardedly optimistic
PCB materials supplier Eternal Materials continues to see sluggish demand from China while expressing optimism about the long-term demand for vacuum lamination, according to the Taiwan-based...
Tuesday 1 August 2023
Disco considering establishing lab in India amidst surge of semiconductor investments
After some semiconductor manufacturers are looking to invest in India, other players in the chip supply chain have begun exploring the feasibility of setting up shop in India, a country...
Tuesday 1 August 2023
AMD plans US$400 million over 5 years to expand R&D and engineering operations in India
AMD has announced plans to invest approximately US$400 million in India over the next five years. The planned investment consists of a new AMD campus in Bangalore, Karnataka that...
Tuesday 1 August 2023
Airoha gearing up for mass production for 50G-PON DSP+LDD solution
Airoha Technology, a subsidiary of MediaTek specializing in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi chips, will soon kick off mass production for 50G-PON device applications, according to company EVP...
Tuesday 1 August 2023
IC verification and analysis labs see promising future
Taiwanese companies specializing in materials analysis (MA), reliability analysis (RA), and failure analysis (FA) are generally optimistic about their future prospects in light of...
Tuesday 1 August 2023
Nvidia to embrace strong 2H23
Nvidia is gearing up for a prosperous second half of 2023, thanks to a spike in demand for its artificial intelligence processors, industry sources believe.
Monday 31 July 2023
MediaTek predicts bounceback for smartphones; AI and automotive progress receives attention
MediaTek CEO Rick Tsai clearly set the tone at the earnings call, stating that automotive electronics and AI will be the two areas that will receive total resource investments and...
Monday 31 July 2023
Biden to sign order curbing US tech investments in China by mid-August
President Joe Biden is planning to sign an executive order to limit critical US technology investments in China by mid-August, according to people familiar with the internal delibe...
Monday 31 July 2023
China's Greater Bay Area forming automotive semiconductor hub
The Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area in China has attracted more semiconductor suppliers to expand in the country's South. A local automotive power semiconductor...
Monday 31 July 2023
Surely you're joking, Mr. Trump! Taiwan and South Korea earned it!
US former President Donald Trump, in a Fox News interview, accused Taiwan of taking away American's semiconductor business. Despite this criticism, Taiwan ought to justify its standing...
Monday 31 July 2023
Biomed startup Dr. Signal attracts investment from major semiconductor players to build Taiwan's only automated cell factory
Cell therapy is a rising star in the global biomedical industry, hence why it has attracted the attention of the tech sector. Recently, AI has also been making major strides in the...
Monday 31 July 2023
Weekly news roundup: geopolitical effects and technological trends in the IC industry

China trade curb on Micron sees exclusion effects extend to all terminal apps

Monday 31 July 2023
RichWave looks to India amid weak Chinese market for 2H23
Taiwan-based RF IC developer RichWave expects the European and American demands, especially for FWAs, to have performed as expected, with the Chinese market's weakness more severe...
Monday 31 July 2023
TSMC complements shortcomings with a win-win investment in Japan
TSMC, which is under pressure from major countries to set up factories overseas, has been criticized for receiving subsidies from the US and Germany by Intel and GlobalFoundries respectively...
Friday 28 July 2023
Samsung on track to expand memory production cutbacks in 2H23
Samsung Electronics is on track to expand production cutbacks on both DRAM and NAND flash chips to accelerate a memory market rebound in the second half of 2023, after its Device...