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Monday 12 July 2021
TSMC gearing up for advanced process leadership for automotive
TSMC is gearing up for a bigger presence in the automotive IC foundry market segment, with its newly-developed N5A process set to be available in the third quarter of 2022, according...
Monday 12 July 2021
Vendors of third-gen semiconductors enhance regional production, sales schemes
Vendors of third-generation semiconductors including GaN and SiC (silicon carbide) are stepping up regional production and marketing deployments to better explore immense demand for...
Friday 9 July 2021
Highlights of the day: Server makers brace for worsening components shortage
Server makers have seen weaker than expected shipments because of components shortges, which they expect will worsen in second half of the year and further dampen their server...
Friday 9 July 2021
Zhen Ding, Flexium to see strong shipments for new iPhones in 2H21
Flexible PCB specialists Zhen Ding Technology and Flexium Interconnect, reportedly among the suppliers of flexible antenna modules for the upcoming iPhones and other new Apple devices,...
Friday 9 July 2021
Phison to see revenue hit another record high in 3Q21
Phison Electronics is expected to see its revenue hit another record high in the third quarter of 2021, buoyed by rising NAND flash prices and strong SSD sales, according to market...
Friday 9 July 2021
Supreme upbeat about server chip demand in 3Q21
Growth in memory chip demand for servers and data centers is poised to outperform that for handsets in the third quarter of 2021, according to Taiwan-based Supreme Electronics.
Friday 9 July 2021
Server ODMs to see shipment shortfall widen in 2H21
Server ODMs saw their shipments fall short of customer orders by 10-30% in the first half of 2021, with the shipment shortfall likely to widen in the second half of the year because...
Friday 9 July 2021
Samsung reportedly reconsidering smartphones with vapor chambers
Samsung Electronics reportedly is reconsidering adopting vapor chambers for its new smartphones for 2022, which could benefit cooling solution providers' sales, according to sources...
Thursday 8 July 2021
Highlights of the day: China foundries reducing support for Taiwan IC designers
Semiconductor manufacturing capacity supply has been tight and some China-based foundry houses are prioritizing supply...
Thursday 8 July 2021
HannStar Display to expand LCD panel capacity
HannStar Display plans to invest NT$17 billion (US$607.4 million) to build an additional LCD panel production capacity of 30,000 substrates monthly, which will come online by 2023,...
Thursday 8 July 2021
HannStar Board sees demand for notebooks stay strong
HannStar Board remains upbeat about demand for notebooks in the second half of 2021, according to the PCB maker.
Thursday 8 July 2021
Arrival of new capacity drives Nan Ya, Kinsus revenue growth
Nan Ya PCB and Kinsus Interconnect Technology both saw their June revenue climb over 30% from a year earlier, driven mainly by the arrival of new production capacity, according to...
Thursday 8 July 2021
UMC, PSMC to see gross margins climb in 2021
United Microelectronics (UMC) and Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing (PSMC) are poised to continue raising their foundry quotes in the second half of 2021, with bullish wafer ASPs...
Thursday 8 July 2021
China foundries cut capacity support for Taiwan chipmakers
China-based foundries including Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) and Huahong Group have cut back their capacity support for orders placed by Taiwan's fabless chipmakers...
Thursday 8 July 2021
Taiwan June exports second highest ever
Taiwan recorded exports totaling US$36.65 billion for June 2021, the second highest-ever monthly level with a sequential decrease of 2.0% but an on-year rise of 35.1% on year, according...