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Wednesday 29 March 2023
Solutions to talent shortage in Taiwan highlighted at IC design event
Talent shortage has been a big headache to global semiconductor companies and may push them into a long-term scramble for professionals. How to tackle the issue became a core topic...
Wednesday 29 March 2023
UMC, eMemory expand low-power memory solutions for AIoT and mobile markets with 22nm RRAM qualification
Silicon IP provider eMemory and pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) have announced that eMemory's resistive random access memory (RRAM) IP has been qualified on UMC's...
Wednesday 29 March 2023
AUO chair sees improvement in display panel supply-demand balance
The supply-demand imbalance of LCD panels is steadily easing, and the prospects of the panel industry are moving upward, according to Paul Peng, chairman of AUO (formerly known at...
Wednesday 29 March 2023
Backend firms to see DDI orders pick up soon
Backend houses expect orders for display driver ICs (DDI) to pick up soon, with their fab utilization rates likely to improve in the second quarter, according to industry sources.
Wednesday 29 March 2023
Phison mulls R&D center in Malaysia
Phison Electronics, which specializes in flash device controllers, is considering opening a R&D center in Malaysia to diversify its operations, according to company CEO K. S....
Wednesday 29 March 2023
MediaTek chair urges government to focus incentives on talent shortages, tech challenges
MediaTek chairman Tsai Ming-kai urged the Taiwan government to focus its incentives on overcoming challenges such as talent shortages and severe technological competition in the local...
Wednesday 29 March 2023
Baidu invests in RISC-V chip company StarFive
Shanghai-based RISC-V chip technology startup StarFive announced on March 23 that it has received strategic investment from China's search giant Baidu, Reuters reported....
Wednesday 29 March 2023
Taiwan 'Chips Act' to benefit only a few companies
The Taiwan government's so-called "Chips Act" will benefit TSMC and a few other major chipmakers, as it does not cover the entire semiconductor ecosystem, according to sources at...
Tuesday 28 March 2023
Huawei touts progress replacing chip design software led by US
Huawei Technologies Co. has developed software tools capable of designing chips as advanced as 14 nanometers, advancing efforts to help Chinese companies sidestep US sanctions and...
Tuesday 28 March 2023
LGD borrows KRW1 trillion from LG to expand OLED investments
LG Display (LGD) is borrowing KRW1 trillion (US$770 million) from LG Electronics and will use the loan for the growth of its OLED product business, according to LGD's recent announ...
Tuesday 28 March 2023
IC Design White Paper puts Chinese mature node capability under spotlight
At the Taiwan IC Design Industrial Policy White Paper Presentation on March 28, co-organized by Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA), DIGITIMES, and MediaTek, leaders...
Tuesday 28 March 2023
Samsung's US semiconductor plant unaffected by proposed PFAS regulation, for now
The US government may impose stricter regulations on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), commonly known as "forever chemicals", to the disaproval of companies such as Intel,...
Tuesday 28 March 2023
ACM Research talks about new orders, growth opportunities
ACM Research, a leading developer of wafer processing technologies for semiconductor and advanced wafer-level packaging applications, has secured its first purchase order from a major...
Tuesday 28 March 2023
Major Taiwan IC design houses vary strategies amid slowdown
Major Taiwan-based IC design houses such as MediaTek, Novatek Microelectronics, Realtek Semiconductor, Elan Microelectronics, Parade Technologies, and Global Mixed-mode Technology...
Tuesday 28 March 2023
Chipmakers to boost 300mm fab capacity to all-time high in 2026
Semiconductor manufacturers worldwide are forecast to increase 300mm fab capacity to an all-time high of 9.6 million wafers per month in 2026, according to SEMI.