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Monday 12 December 2022
Short of creativity and further deployment, Taiwan could lag behind China in IC design: Q&A with NYCU chair professor Chen Ke-Horng
The International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the largest annual event for the IC design sector, will be held February 19-23, 2023 in San Francisco. A total of 23 papers...
Monday 12 December 2022
MediaTek sees small bounceback in November, but more work is still needed to reach 4Q goal
MediaTek's November revenue reported a small growth, but the company still has plenty of work to do in order to reach its previously estimated fourth quarter goal. The cold consumer...
Monday 12 December 2022
China-based unicorn Nanjing SemiDrive Technology finishes Series B+ financing
Nanjing SemiDrive Technology (SemiDrive), a China-based unicorn specialized in automotive SoC design, completed Series B+ financing round in late November 2022, raising CNY1.0 billion...
Monday 12 December 2022
UK looks to enhance collaboration with Taiwan in quantum research
In the Quantum Communication Technology and Application Forum hosted by the Hon Hai Research Institute on December 12 in Taipei at a venue on the National Taiwan University campus,...
Monday 12 December 2022
Chinese panel makers gear up in AMOLED panel development, says DIGITIMES Research
Chinese panel makers including BOE, TCL CSOT, and Visionox have been acting keenly to expand AMOLED capacities, following the footsteps of Korea-based Samsung Display and LG Display,...
Monday 12 December 2022
MediaTek faces difficulty rivaling Qualcomm in flagship mobile AP market
With Samsung Electronics still reorganizing its Exynos processor product line, the Android handset AP market has become a two-horse race between Qualcomm and MediaTek, and how the...
Monday 12 December 2022
Arm Tech Symposium 2022 China highlights software-defined car trend
Arm Tech Symposium 2022 China, held in early December, focused on discussing the software-defined car trend and four topics that highlight vehicle development in the post-Moore's...
Friday 9 December 2022
ASML undaunted by Dutch export controls?
The Dutch government has succumbed to Washington's pressures, despite earlier comments from Dutch Foreign Trade Minister Liesje Schreinemacher that the Netherlands would not "copy...
Friday 9 December 2022
Alliance between Mayfield and Silicon Catalyst provides semiconductor startups fuel in VC winter
Semiconductor startups are having an easier time raising funds amid the venture capital winter, as there are signs of a renaissance of silicon, a trend that has accelerated in the...
Friday 9 December 2022
IC design houses see shipments stall in 4Q22
Most Taiwan IC design houses have seen shipments suffer a freeze in the fourth quarter of the year, and their sales are expected to stay in low gear in the first half of 2023 amid...
Friday 9 December 2022
China flash controller firm plans IPO
Yeestor Microelectronics, a China-based flash storage controller supplier, has applied to launch its IPO on the Sci-Tech Innovation Board (STAR) of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, according...
Friday 9 December 2022
US, Taiwan IC design houses cutting wafer starts at China foundries
US and Taiwan-based fabless chipmakers have increasingly moved to scale down wafer starts at China-based foundries, according to industry sources.
Friday 9 December 2022
New TSMC fab in US has in-house capability of IC analysis and verification
TSMC's new advanced wafer fab in the US will be capable of providing IC materials analysis and verification in-house, according to sources at Taiwan IC analysis and inspection labs,...
Thursday 8 December 2022
Xiaomi invests in HuiXi autonomous driving chip company
Multiple Chinese media reported on Dec 6 that the China-based AI startup Hefei HuiXi Intelligence has received investment from HanXing Venture Capital – a wholly-owned subsidiary...
Thursday 8 December 2022
SK Hynix develops MCR DIMM
SK Hynix has developed working samples of DDR5 multiplexer combined ranks (MCR) dual in-line memory module, which the memory chipmaker claims is the world's fastest server DRAM pro...