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Tuesday 2 November 2021
DDI vendors may see gross margins eroded by rising production costs
Taiwan's display driver IC (DDI) suppliers will likely post sequential decreases in gross margins through the first quarter of 2022, as they encounter more difficulties in passing...
Tuesday 2 November 2021
GaN and SiC compete in the EV market
Third-generation gallium nitride (GaN) and silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductors are competing for use in power devices in future cars. While SiC has taken the lead thanks to Tesla,...
Tuesday 2 November 2021
China smartphone AP shipments to fall nearly 30% in 4Q21, says Digitimes Research
About 258 million smartphone application processors were shipped to China-based handset vendors in the third quarter of 2021, up 17.9% sequentially, but the corresponding shipments...
Tuesday 2 November 2021
Global semiconductor sales increase 27.6% in 3Q21
Worldwide sales of semiconductors totaled US$144.8 billion during the third quarter of 2021, up 27.6% on year and 7.4% sequentially, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association...
Monday 1 November 2021
India roundup: carmakers are running low on lithium battery
India continues pushing for its local manufacturing of EV and semiconductors; however, lithium batteries are hard to find. Honda may launch its first electric two-wheeler in India...
Monday 1 November 2021
Highlights of the day: Samsung discloses bold move to triple foundry capacity
Samsung Electronics has made a bold plan to triple its foundry production capacity by 2026. However, the global chip...
Monday 1 November 2021
Realtek to sustain robust shipments of networking chips through 1H22
Taiwan-based networking chip supplier Realtek Semiconductor expects its shipment growth momentum to persist into the first half of 2022 after posting impressive revenue and profit...
Monday 1 November 2021
Flexciton optimizes wafer fab scheduling to improve production efficiency
Flexciton, a UK-based software startup, deployed its production scheduling optimization software in Seagate's factory in Derry, Northern Ireland. The software is based on mixed-integer...
Monday 1 November 2021
Semiconductors to stay a seller's market through 1H22
After lasting for almost two years, global semiconductor shortage is on track to ease as the pandemic continues to subside in many countries, and semiconductor demand is expected...
Monday 1 November 2021
Micron launches new capacity expansion in Japan

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Monday 1 November 2021
RichWave expects Wi-Fi 5 RF-FEM shipments to rebound in1Q22
Taiwan-based RichWave Technology, dedicated to offering RF-FEM (front-end modules) for Wi-Fi and other related applications, saw its third-quarter 2021 shipments drop significantly...
Friday 29 October 2021
Silicon Motion expects up to 5% revenue growth in 4Q21
Flash device controller IC supplier Silicon Motion Technology expects to post revenues of between US$254 million and US$267 million in the fourth quarter of 2021, representing an...
Friday 29 October 2021
AUO expects slight shipment and ASP drops in 4Q21
LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO) expects to post a 1-3% sequential decrease in area shipments with a 4-6% fall in product ASPs for the fourth quarter of 2021.
Thursday 28 October 2021
High costs leave major brands unenthusiastic about 5G notebooks
Despite 5G gradually becoming more common, 5G notebooks are still rare in the market. This is because the cost of 5G notebooks is simply too high. From the processors to the mechanical...
Thursday 28 October 2021
'SysMoore' or 'More than Moore': Semiconductor technologies likely to evolve with system complexity
The sustainability of Moore's Law, an observation made by Gordon Moore in 1965 that the number of transistors on a chip would double every 18 months, has been in the center of debate...