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Tuesday 8 March 2022
GF announces next-gen silicon photonics solutions
GlobalFoundries' next-generation silicon photonics platform, GF Fotonix, is available now to address the explosive growth of soaring data volumes while significantly reducing power...
Monday 7 March 2022
Can SMIC help Russia survive tech sanctions?
Governments around the world have imposed harsh export restrictions against Russia to limit its access to semiconductors and other tech goods from overseas. Taiwan and South Korea...
Monday 7 March 2022
Highlights of the day: Predictable changes and unpredictable chaos disrupt markets
Tesla's Model 3 has been selling well, but Tesla's Model Y will probably upstage the Model 3, and meanwhile, the competing...
Monday 7 March 2022
Political economists' views over Russia-Ukraine crisis, China and semiconductors (Part 1)
The Russian invasion into Ukraine caught the world by surprise and we have not seen any sign of Russian attacks subsiding. Half the globe away from the battleground, many pundits...
Monday 7 March 2022
Notebook ODMs see shipments fall short of orders by 20%
Notebook ODMs now still see their shipments fall short of orders by 20% as their production remains constrained by persistently tight supply of power management ICs (PMICs), MOSFETs...
Monday 7 March 2022
Global semiconductor sales up 26.8% in January, says SIA
The global semiconductor industry generated sales of US$50.7 billion in January, up 26.8% over the January 2021 total of US$40 billion, but down by a slight 0.2% compared with the...
Monday 7 March 2022
Phison expects NAND flash shortfall from mid-May to June
The global supply of NAND flash memory is expected to be significantly tight between mid May and the end of June, due mainly to a substantial cutback in output at Kioxia-Western Digital...
Monday 7 March 2022
India roundup: Tata and Renesas to build EV innovation center in India
Renesas Electronics and Tata Elxsi set up Next Generation EV Innovation Center, which...
Friday 4 March 2022
Equipment maker Symtek to embrace strong 2022
Taiwan-based Symtek Automation Asia, which provides automation equipment to support capacity expansions at PCB and IC substrate makers, expects to post a double-digit revenue surge...
Friday 4 March 2022
Nan Ya PCB doubles capex budget for 2022
Nan Ya PCB has set aside a capex budget of NT$17 billion (US$605.5 million) for 2022, double last year's level of NT$8.45 billion, mainly to expand its production capacity for ABF...
Friday 4 March 2022
Ennostar to step up compound semiconductor deployment
Ennostar, a holding company jointly established by upstream LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar and downstream LED packager Lextar Electronics, is looking to accelerate its...
Friday 4 March 2022
Component demand for Android smartphones to pick up in March
Component demand for Android smartphones is expected to pick up at a gradual pace later this month, thanks to the availability of new models from China-based brand vendors, according...
Friday 4 March 2022
Marketech, Gudeng, and GPI see strong demand from TSMC
Fab toolmakers Marketech International, Gudeng Precision Industrial, and Gongin Precision Industrial (GPI) have enjoyed strong demand from TSMC, which is gearing up for volume production...
Friday 4 March 2022
Intel, other industry leaders set up UCIe consortium
Intel has announced it is among industry titans working to advance the future of semiconductor architectural innovations with new UCIe standard.
Friday 4 March 2022
Taiwan IC supply chain wary of war impacts on consumer demand
Taiwan's semiconductor supply chain remains unscathed by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, but experts are wary that worldwide economic development may suffer and...