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Thursday 24 March 2022
Samsung, Intel keen to take slices of foundry market from TSMC
Samsung Electronics and Intel have both stepped up efforts to expand their respective foundry businesses, eyeing bigger slices of the global foundry market particularly in the advanced...
Wednesday 23 March 2022
Samsung rumored to use MediaTek SoC in upcoming Galaxy phones
Samsung Electronics reportedly will launch midrange- to high-end Galaxy smartphones powered by MediaTek's Dimensity 9000 chipset.
Wednesday 23 March 2022
New Nvidia GPU fabbed by TSMC with 4nm process
Nvidia has announced its next-generation accelerated computing platform with Hopper architecture, dubbed H100 GPU, which is built using TSMC's 4nm (N4) process customized for the...
Wednesday 23 March 2022
TSMC to scale up 5nm chip shipments in 3Q22
TSMC is expected to scale up its 5nm chip shipments to 150,000 wafers monthly in the third quarter of 2022 from about 120,000 units at present, according to sources at semiconductor...
Wednesday 23 March 2022
Global fab equipment spending to grow 18% in 2022, says SEMI
Global fab equipment spending for front-end facilities is expected to grow 18% on year to an all-time high of US$107 billion in 2022, marking a third consecutive year of growth following...
Tuesday 22 March 2022
TSMC to see orders for auto chips ramp up
TSMC is expected to see orders for automotive electronics chips rise at a faster-than-expected pace, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 22 March 2022
NAND flash chipmakers step up controller chip purchases
NAND flash chip vendors including Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology have moved to increase more of their controller chip production to third-party suppliers, such as Phison...
Tuesday 22 March 2022
Server chip and component shortages likely to carry through 2022
Server-use chips and components remain in extremely tight supply, and their shortage will be more severe than that of notebook components and may stay unresolved through the end of...
Tuesday 22 March 2022
SSD control IC shortage to persist through 2022
Tight foundry capacities and shortages of ABF substrates continue to cause solid-state drive (SSD) control IC supply constraints, according to sources at backend houses.
Monday 21 March 2022
Elan gearing up to develop automotive ICs
Taiwan-based Elan Microelectronics, specializing in touchpad controllers for notebook applications, is gearing up to accelerate the development of automotive ICs by gathering all...
Monday 21 March 2022
Silicon wafer suppliers continue to see orders from foundries despite end-market slowdown concerns
Silicon wafer companies and other upstream chipmaking material providers continue to see their production capacities fully utilized by the still strong pull-in of orders from foundries,...
Monday 21 March 2022
TSMC may triple CoWoS material purchases for Nvidia new HPC chips
Nvidia is set to launch new HPC GPU platforms for datacenter, AI and gaming applications in 2022, and its manufacturing partner TSMC reportedly is expected to triple order placements...
Monday 21 March 2022
Etron upbeat about niche-market DRAM outlook
IC design house Etron Technology has expressed optimism about the niche-market DRAM segment in 2022, with the supply-demand dynamics staying favorable to the Taiwan-based company.
Monday 21 March 2022
Competition in automotive CIS heats up with more entrants
The rapid growth of automotive CMOS image sensors (CIS) has caused more security monitoring and consumer electronics manufacturers to enter the market.
Friday 18 March 2022
Demand for ESD protection chips to surge as PCIe 4.0 goes mainstream
PCIe4.0 is expected to emerge as a mainstream transmission interface standard for diverse notebooks and desktops in 2022, providing significant growth opportunities for ESD (electrostatic...