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Tuesday 7 March 2023
Infineon and UMC extend automotive partnership with long-term agreement for 40nm eNVM microcontroller production
Infineon Technologies and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) today announced a long-term strategic cooperation agreement to multiply capacity for the production of Infineon...
Tuesday 7 March 2023
IDMs upbeat about market prospects for automotive chips
Despite automotive chip customer pull-in momentum reportedly weakening, IDMs in the US and Europe are still highly optimistic about market prospects for the chip segment whose supply...
Tuesday 7 March 2023
ASIC designer Sondrel extends multi-year EDA license with Synopsys
UK-based fabless ASIC designer Sondrel has extended its multi-year, multi-million-dollar license agreement with Synopsys for its state-of-the-art EDA tools so that it will run for...
Tuesday 7 March 2023
IT = India + Taiwan: DIGITIMES President's six information industry development suggestions for India
"Taiwan is not a competitor to India because we don't do branding; we can be your partner."
Tuesday 7 March 2023
IC design houses under pressure from high fab costs
Cost pressure on IC design houses will last into the second half of 2023 as Taiwanese wafer fabs are showing little intention of lowering their manufacturing service quotes.
Monday 6 March 2023
DDI firm Fitipower sees operations hit bottom in 1Q23
Fitipower Integrated Technology, an affiliate of the Foxconn Group specializing in display driver ICs (DDI), has seen customer orders, particularly those from the TV sector, gradually...
Monday 6 March 2023
US adds 28 Chinese companies to Entity List
The US has added 37 companies to a trade blacklist, including 28 based in China. Among the Chinese companies are Inspur and Loongson Technology.
Monday 6 March 2023
Top 3 memory vendors account for three-fourths of leading-edge wafer capacity
According to Knometa Research, Samsung Electronics, Micron Technology, and SK Hynix held 76% of the leading-edge capacity at the end of 2022, with the majority of it going toward...
Monday 6 March 2023
Indian carmakers not out of the woods from automotive chip shortage
Despite the fact that a chip glut is hurting memory suppliers like Samsung Electronics, India's carmakers are still waiting for the shortage of automotive chips to ease.
Monday 6 March 2023
Will automotive chips sustain strong long-term demand?
Against stalling chip demand for almost all consumer applications amid an unfavorable macroeconomic environment, automotive chips seem to remain unscathed with stable growth momentum...
Monday 6 March 2023
With Japanese government subsidizing semiconductors, who benefits?
The Japanese government will again subsidize the production and development of semiconductors in Japan with a supplementary government budget for fiscal year 2022 (April 2022 to March...
Friday 3 March 2023
With Tesla rumored to cut 75% of SiC demand, Taiwan's power semiconductor sector offers their analysis
EV leader Tesla emphasized in its 2023 "Investor Day" that its next car model will aim to reduce assembly costs by 50%. It was also implied that Tesla will reduce around 75% of its...
Friday 3 March 2023
Qualcomm advances fast in automotive chips solutions
Qualcomm is making fast advancements in automotive chips solutions, which is increasingly hard for arch competitor MediaTek to catch up. At the just-concluded MWC 2023, the US chipmaker...
Friday 3 March 2023
China to mobilize national resources and provide national treatment to foreign experts in semiconductor push
As Washington imposed a series of policies and bans to restrict China's semiconductor development, Beijing is also trying to counter the US and achieve self-reliance.
Friday 3 March 2023
Semiconductor market in decline despite record 2022
The semiconductor market ascended to an all-time high in 2022, with total revenue reaching US$595.7 billion, just surpassing the previous year's record revenue of US$592.8 billion...