CONNECT WITH US
Global supply chain: Key components
Key components news coverage
IN THE NEWS
Wednesday 22 December 2021
BESI lowers 4Q21 revenue due to severe flooding in Malaysia
Leading manufacturer of assembly equipment for the semiconductor industry, BE Semiconductor Industries N.V. (Besi) announced that due to flooding affecting its main production facility...
Wednesday 22 December 2021
High-end test interfaces badly needed for Wi-Fi 6E/7 chipsets
As Wi-Fi technology standards continue to advance from Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 6/6E to Wi-Fi 7, high-frequency and mixed-frequency chips testing interfaces are badly needed to help chipmakers...
Wednesday 22 December 2021
Top 10 semiconductor news in 2021
The semiconductor industry experienced a dramatic year in 2021 - climate crises, pandemic, fire at a Japanese chip factory, geopolitical tension, and automakers' decision-making error...
Wednesday 22 December 2021
Semiconductor equipment billings hit record high in November 2021
Billings among North American manufacturers of semiconductor production equipment climbed to a record high of US$3.93 billion in November 2021, according to SEMI.
Wednesday 22 December 2021
High-end IC testing demand to stay robust in 2022
Testing demand for HPC chips, mobile application processors, wireless connectivity chips, and other high-end logic chips will stay strong in 2022, according to sources at Taiwan-based...
Wednesday 22 December 2021
Seventeen semiconductor companies to see 2021 revenue top US$10 billion
IC Insights has forecast that 17 companies will have worldwide semiconductor (IC and OSD - optoelectronics, sensor, and discrete) sales of more than US$10.0 billion in 2021.
Wednesday 22 December 2021
Unisoc adopts Imagination AI in 5G chips
Unisoc has used Imagination Technologies' Series3NX neural network accelerator (NNA) IP in its new smartphone 5G platforms - Tanggula T770 and T760 system-on-chips (SoC), according...
Wednesday 22 December 2021
Micron sees AI, 5G and EV drive memory demand growth
Memory and storage revenue has outpaced the rest of the semiconductor industry over the last two decades, according to Sanjay Mehrotra, president and CEO for Micron Technology, who...
Tuesday 21 December 2021
Highlights of the day: UMC to raise foundry quotes again in March
UMC has informed clients of another round of price hikes in March 2022, following an about 10% rise in foundry service...
Tuesday 21 December 2021
LCD panel maker Giantplus sees brisk order visibility for 1H22
Small- to medium-size LCD panel and module maker Giantplus Technology has seen brisk order visibility for the first half of 2022, with industrial and niche-market products accounting...
Tuesday 21 December 2021
MCU firm Nyquest strikes 4-year deal for sufficient foundry capacity
MCU specialist Nyquest Technology has struck an agreement with Nuvoton Technology for sufficient foundry capacity over the next four years, according to the fabless chipmaker.
Tuesday 21 December 2021
Broadcom, MediaTek to roll out Wi-Fi 7 SoCs in 1H22
Broadcom and MediaTek are set to release their respective Wi-Fi 7 SoC series in the first half of 2022, looking to build a preemptive presence in the next-generation Wi-Fi segment...
Tuesday 21 December 2021
Battery EVs the main arena for SiC, says Rohm
The wide bandgap (WBG) features of third-generation semiconductors make them particularly suitable for recharging and radio frequency (RF) applications, as silicon carbide (SiC) has...
Tuesday 21 December 2021
Industry watch: The expensive semiconductor game
DIGITIMES estimates that it costs US$2.4 billion to build a 12-inch wafer fab using the 90nm process node with a monthly output of 50,000 wafers. The investment can reach US$6 billion...
Tuesday 21 December 2021
Wi-Fi 6/6E chips crunch may ease with 16nm process node
Delivery lead times for Wi-Fi 6/6E core chips still last six months to one year although such chips are given shipment priority at vendors amid tight foundry capacity, and migrating...