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Wednesday 7 September 2022
Panel demand likely to rebound in 2Q23
The panel industry's current inventory correction will likely end soon, with the related supply chain stabilizing in early 2023 and panel demand rebounding in the second quarter of...
Wednesday 7 September 2022
Huawei's latest satellite capability launches China's BeiDou into the global smartphone race
Launching the Mate 50 smartphone series on September 6, the CEO of Huawei's Consumer Business Group, Richard Yu, confirmed earlier speculations that the latest product could support...
Wednesday 7 September 2022
SK Hynix to break ground for new memory fab in October
SK Hynix has disclosed plans to break ground in October for a new memory fab in South Korea, with construction scheduled to complete in early 2025.
Tuesday 6 September 2022
Flexium becomes first Taiwan PCB maker to join RE100 Initiative
Taiwan-based flexible PCB maker Flexium Interconnect has recently announced its official entry into R100, a global renewable energy initiative led by Climate Group and the Carbon...
Tuesday 6 September 2022
Chinese foundries brace for further sanctions, but EDA industry remains unprepared
Former US president Donald Trump successfully prevented ASML from shipping its EUV lithography machines to China in 2019, and talks of further extending the ban to DUV machines have...
Tuesday 6 September 2022
SEMI: Semiconductor material market to increase nearly 9% to US$69.8 billion in 2022
In a press release promoting the Strategic Material Summit scheduled to be held in September during the week of SEMICON Taiwan 2022, Terry Tsao, President of SEMI Taiwan and the association's...
Tuesday 6 September 2022
Supply chain restructuring and resilience
In "The New Critical Era of Supply Chains Restructuring and Resilience Strengthening" forum hosted recently by DIGITIMES Asia, experts from IC distributors - WPG Holdings' chief marketing...
Tuesday 6 September 2022
Topco Scientific eyeing 3rd-gen semiconductor business
Topco Scientific, which mainly distributes photoresist, silicon wafers and CMP slurry products to foundry houses, is looking to actively develop its third-generation semiconductor...
Tuesday 6 September 2022
Entering an age of vertical globalization: Q&A with geopolitical futurist Abishur Prakash
The fresh US export restrictions on chips to China and Russia seem to have pushed the decoupling of the semiconductor technology a step further. DIGITIMES Asia had an exclusive interview...
Tuesday 6 September 2022
Automotive IDMs raise prices
Automotive IC IDMs including Rohm Semiconductor will reportedly raise their prices to reflect rising raw material costs, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 6 September 2022
IDMs continue to strive for available foundry capacity
IDMs are still striving for more available foundry capacity while IC design houses continue to cut back wafer starts at foundries, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 6 September 2022
China IC foundries cut prices by 10-20%
China-based logic IC foundries have already initiated a 10-20% price cut, as their fabless customers continue scaling back orders, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 6 September 2022
TSMC hiring staff for new office in Japan
TSMC has started hiring employees for its new office in Osaka, Japan, according to the Taiwan-based pure-play foundry. The new office will be set up through TSMC Design Technology...
Monday 5 September 2022
OSATs still awaiting 4Q22 orders for gaming GPUs
Taiwan's OSATs including ASE Technology will see their backend services for Nvidia and AMD's AI GPUs stay unaffected before a US ban on exports of the advanced GPUs to China takes...
Monday 5 September 2022
HTC talks vision for metaverse, names computing power and reducing latency as challenges
There are still many challenges that need to be conquered to improve the metaverse's virtual experience, namely computing power and latency. Thus, the technological advances of the...