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Tuesday 18 May 2021
IST expects demand for verification services from new energy car sector to increase in 2021
Integrated Service Technology (iST), a Taiwan-based provider of semiconductor verification services, expects demand from the components sector supporting new energy cars to significantly...
Tuesday 18 May 2021
ADLINK's die bond solution helps realize fast, high-precision advanced packaging for semiconducting industry
Semiconductor chips have been the hottest trending topic recently due to their indispensability in all types of applications, including automobiles, mobile phones, military weapons,...
Monday 17 May 2021
Highlights of the day: COVID surge casts shadow over Taiwan supply chain
As COVID-19 cases surge in Taiwan, concerns have been raised over the stability of chip supply from the local semiconductor...
Monday 17 May 2021
Semiconductor equipment supplier Trusval enjoys robust orders
Trusval Technology has disclosed that customer orders it holds on hand are already at record-high levels, buoyed by robust demand from its chipmaking customers looking to spend more...
Monday 17 May 2021
IC distributor Answer Technology see earnings more than double in 1Q21
IC distributor Answer Technology has reported net profit of NT$79 million (US$2.84 million) for the first quarter of 2021, increasing 110.81% from a year earlier, bolstered by increased...
Monday 17 May 2021
MediaTek reiterates sales guidance for 2Q21
MediaTek has reiterated its sales guidance for the second quarter of 2021, despite concerns about demand deceleration in India and China.
Monday 17 May 2021
SMIC expects 17-19% revenue increase in 2Q21
China-based pure-play foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) expects to post a revenue increase of 17-19% sequentially in the second quarter of 2021, with gross...
Monday 17 May 2021
Concerns rising over Taiwan chip supply stability
With Taiwan encountering a sudden rise in the number of domestically transmitted COVID-19 infections, concerns about the stability of Taiwan's IC industry supply chain have emerged...
Monday 17 May 2021
Ingentec to construct new plant for chipmaking specialty gases
Chipmaking specialty gas specialist Ingentec will kick off construction of a new plant for making specialty gases used in semiconductor manufacturing later this year, according to...
Friday 14 May 2021
Apple reportedly to sharply cut VCSEL die size for 3D sensors
Apple reportedly has decided to scale down the die size by 40-50% for VCSEL chips used in 3D face ID sensors for new iPhone and iPad devices to be rolled out later in 2021, a move...
Friday 14 May 2021
WPG posts record revenue, profit for 1Q21
IC distributor WPG has reported net profit of NT$2.42 billion (US$86.5 million) on revenue of NT$177.11 billion for the first quarter of 2021, with both results hitting record highs...
Friday 14 May 2021
ESMT enjoys handsome profit
Memory IC design house Elite Semiconductor Memory Technology (ESMT) saw its unaudited profits for the first four months of this year outpace the total for the first three quarters...
Friday 14 May 2021
Samsung to boost logic chip investment to KRW171 trillion by 2030
Samsung Electronics has announced plans to invest a total of KRW171 trillion (US$151 billion) in its system LSI and foundry businesses through 2030, an increase of KRW38 trillion...
Thursday 13 May 2021
Analog IC specialist GMT expects record revenue in 2Q21
Taiwan-based Global Mixed-mode Technology (GMT), a supplier of analog and power management (PWM) ICs, expects to see its second-quarter revenue grow up to 10% sequentially to a record...
Thursday 13 May 2021
Highlights of the day: Pegatron braces for slower notebook shipment growth
Components shortages have been troubling the notebook industry for months. ODM Pegatron's previous optimism that its...