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Tuesday 7 December 2021
Industry watch: Identify your business model from the market structure
PSMC chairman Frank Huang has long been known in the IT industry as a very unique personality, or even a cat with nine lives. Huang has plans to invest NT$300 billion (US$10.81 billion)...
Monday 6 December 2021
Highlights of the day: TSMC US$100 billion expansion plan on track
TSMC has an ambitious US$100 billion capacity expansion plan for the net three years, but the chairman of the world's...
Monday 6 December 2021
Cluster 2.0 needed for Taiwan semiconductor sector to meet new challenges, says ASE COO
Taiwan's semiconductor sector has performed outstandingly amid the pandemic over the past two years thanks partly to its strong industrial clusters, but Taiwan needs to advance to...
Monday 6 December 2021
India roundup: Tata reportedly to manufacture semiconductor in India
Tata reportedly is in talks with a state government to build semiconductor assembly plants. E-scooter maker Ather Energy is raising annual production capacity to 400,000 units, while...
Monday 6 December 2021
Global semiconductor sales poised to hit record high in 2021
Worldwide sales of semiconductors are poised to increase 25.6% on year to a record high of US$553 billion in 2021, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), which...
Monday 6 December 2021
TSMC serious about capital spending, says chairman
Geopolitical tensions could prompt chipmakers to over-plan their capacity expansions, but TSMC is serious about its huge capital spending over the next three years, according to Mark...
Monday 6 December 2021
Automotive chip supply improves, but shortage to remain in 2022
The automotive chip shortage has eased significantly in fourth-quarter 2021 compared to the previous quarter, but the automotive supply chain is still prepared for the chip shortage...
Monday 6 December 2021
Taiwan LCD monitors - 3Q 2021
Taiwan's PC monitor shipments increased sequentially as expected in the third quarter, but only went up 4.6%, smaller than the 6% forecasted in August as supply of some components...
Monday 6 December 2021
Memory demand to boom for AI, says Macronix chairman
Memory demand is set to rise further, as AI applications become more widespread, according to Miin Wu, chairman for ROM and flash chipmaker Macronix International.
Monday 6 December 2021
Industry watch: It's hard to tell friends from foes
When developing its advanced packaging technology, what's TSMC's bigger concern: its own competitiveness or the feelings of other packaging firms? In the past, Intel made motherboards...
Monday 6 December 2021
Supply of automotive chips improves in November, December
The global supply of automotive chips has increased in November and December after months of shortages, allowing automakers and downstream parts suppliers to begin normalizing some...
Friday 3 December 2021
Taiwan ranked largest semiconductor equipment market in 3Q21
Worldwide semiconductor equipment billings increased 8% sequentially and a robust 38% on year to US$26.8 billion in the third quarter of 2021, according to SEMI. The quarter also...
Friday 3 December 2021
Intel executives soon to visit TSMC for 3nm
High-level executives of Intel will pay a visit to Taiwan in mid-December and meet TSMC to discuss the US vendor's demanded 3nm chip capacity, according to industry sources.
Friday 3 December 2021
Qualcomm to diversify foundry sources for flagship SoCs
Unsatisfactory manufacturing yield rates for Samsung's 4nm process technology are prompting Qualcomm to diversify its foundry sources for high-end Snapdragon SoCs, industry sources...
Friday 3 December 2021
ASE obtains major orders for new Qualcomm mobile SoC
Taiwan's leading backend house ASE Technology and its affiliate Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) have obtained major orders for processing Qualcomm's just-unveiled flagship...