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Thursday 30 March 2023
US Defense Production Act utilized to strengthen PCB and hypersonics industrial bases
On March 27, US President Joe Biden signed a presidential determination (PD) authorizing the use of Defense Production Act (DPA) to support the PCB and advanced packaging industries...
Thursday 30 March 2023
Structural advantages key to Taiwan IC industry development in next decade, says DIGITIMES president
Taiwan's semiconductor manufacturing sector boasts structural advantages in its next decade of development, but the advantages for its IC design sector are likely to change, according...
Thursday 30 March 2023
China remains committed to chip self-sufficiency
China may fall short of its goal of increasing IC self-sufficiency to 70% by 2025 due to tougher export restrictions imposed by the US, but it stays committed to chip self-sufficiency,...
Thursday 30 March 2023
Phison, Silicon Motion see both challenges and possibilities
Memory device controller suppliers such as Phison Electronics and Silicon Motion Technology are still facing unfavorable macroeconomic conditions as the NAND flash memory industry...
Thursday 30 March 2023
AI a future driver of IC market growth, says Etron chair
Artificial intelligence (AI) will be a major application driving the growth of the global semiconductor market, according to Nicky Lu, chairman of IC design house Etron Technology...
Thursday 30 March 2023
PCB and IC substrate makers upbeat about demand for AI servers
PCB and IC substrate makers are bracing for a challenging 2023 but expect demand for AI servers to drive their sales growth later this year, according to industry sources.
Wednesday 29 March 2023
Infineon expects better outcomes for fiscal 2Q23 and entire year
Infineon Technologies has released a statement updating its revenue and segment result margin expectations for the current second quarter, as well as the entire fiscal year 2023....
Wednesday 29 March 2023
Cerebras releases 7 new GPT models trained on CS-2 wafer-scale systems
Cerebras Systems has trained and is releasing a series of seven GPT-based large language models (LLM) for open use by the research community, according to the company. This is the...
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....