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Thursday 1 July 2021
Worldwide IC market forecast to top US$500 billion in 2021
Strong demand across the entire IC market this year is projected to lift sales for the total IC market by 24% and break through the US$500 billion plateau for the first time in history,...
Thursday 1 July 2021
Taiwan sees decreased domestic production for export orders in 2020, says MOEA
Of export orders received by Taiwan-based manufacturers and exporters in 2020, domestic production accounted for 46.0%, slipping 1.4pp on year, according to a survey of overseas production...
Thursday 1 July 2021
CCL and PCB firms see bullish copper foil price trend continuing
Copper foil prices prices will remain on a bullish course despite recent correction in copper prices at the London Metal Exchange (LME), according to sources at CCL and PCB manufac...
Wednesday 30 June 2021
Highlights of the day: HPC chips to drive TSMC growth
HPC applications account for a large portion of the global foundry market, which TSMC considers a major driver of...
Wednesday 30 June 2021
Qualcomm make headway in 5G mmWave SoC solutions market
Qualcomm has made headway in the 5G mmWave solution market, securing related orders from many telecom operators and smartphone vendors in North America, Europe, Japan, Korea, India...
Wednesday 30 June 2021
Compound semiconductors now national strategic materials, says GlobalWafers chair
Compound semiconductors will become a key industry sector reaching a national strategic level in importance, as they will be badly needed to power many critical technological applications...
Wednesday 30 June 2021
Fierce competition among HPC chip suppliers to benefit TSMC
Foundry market leader TSMC has been pinpointed as a major beneficiary of the increasingly fierce competition among HPC chip providers, according to market sources.
Wednesday 30 June 2021
PCB materials prices stop rising
Upstream PCB materials prices have stopped rising and stabilized, relieving some pressure on PCB makers though the materials remain in tight supply, according to industry sources.
Wednesday 30 June 2021
Synopsys, Samsung Foundry extend partnership to 3nm GAA technology
Synopsys' Fusion Design Platform has enabled Samsung Foundry to achieve first-pass silicon success for an advanced, high-performance and multi-subsystem SoC, validating the extended...
Tuesday 29 June 2021
Highlights of the day: TSMC set to welcome record June sales
Strong demand from various IC segments is expected to send sales at TSMC to yet another record level in June, despite...
Tuesday 29 June 2021
MIH may stretch into autonomous driving
MIH Consortium, a Foxconn-led open EV ecosystem, may extend its business tentacle into the self-driving segment as quite a few startups from the segment are now members of the alliance...
Tuesday 29 June 2021
Foxconn adopts two-pronged strategy for EV ecosystem
Foxconn (Hon Hai) Technology Group is set to deepen its deployments in the EV market through both the MIH platform and in-house production of EV components following the formation...
Tuesday 29 June 2021
LCD panel prices to rise at slower pace in July
LCD panel prices will continue to rise in July, but at a slower pace as sales of TVs in China are heading for a slowdown, weakening demand for panels, according to industry sources...
Tuesday 29 June 2021
Notebook ODMs still see shipments constrained by chip shortages
Notebook ODMs and brand vendors continue to see their shipments constrained by chip shortages, though supply of some other components may improve later this year, according to industry...
Tuesday 29 June 2021
MCU prices set to rise in 3Q21
Taiwan-based MCU suppliers are set to raise their chip prices in the third quarter to reflect rising foundry costs and end-market demand driven by work-from-home (WFH) activities.