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Tuesday 9 March 2021
PCB makers suffering short supply of upstream materials
PCB makers face growing difficulty in stockpiling inventory of both direct upstream materials including CCLs and indirect materials, which are increasingly in short supply due to...
Tuesday 9 March 2021
Analog Integrations swings back to profit in 2020
Analog and power management (PWM) IC provider Analog Integrations managed to swing back to profitability in 2020 thanks to the enrichment of its product portfolios.
Tuesday 9 March 2021
Israeli firm joins TSMC IP alliance
Israel-based proteanTecs has announced its participation in TSMC's IP alliance, which includes major IP companies to provide the semiconductor industry's largest catalog of silicon-verified,...
Tuesday 9 March 2021
Touch panel maker GIS to expand capacity for IT applications
Touch panel maker General Interface Solution (GIS) plans to invest an additional NT$3.404 billion to expand its backend module capacity for IT products at its factory site in Chengdu,...
Tuesday 9 March 2021
Controller supply constraints disrupting Samsung PCIe SSD shipments
Samsung Electronics has notified clients that production of its PCIe SSDs is being disrupted by tight supplies of controller chips, with the production unlikely to restore until May,...
Tuesday 9 March 2021
Taiwan science parks record revenues of NT$3,027 billion in 2020
Hsinchu Science Park (HSP), Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) and Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP) generated revenues otaling NT$3,027.625 billion (US$106.70 billion) in 2020,...
Monday 8 March 2021
TEEIA urges government to support development of semiconductor equipment
Taiwan Electronic Equipment Industry Association (TEEIA) has called on the government to make policies and laws to promote development of a local semiconductor equipment manufacturing...
Monday 8 March 2021
Highlights of the day: Taiwan IC designers seeking support from Chinese OSATs
Semiconductor manufacturing capacity has been tight, sending some major IC design houses in Taiwan seeking support from Chinese...
Monday 8 March 2021
MediaTek may seek capacity support from China OSATs for lower-end chips
Taiwan's first-tier IC designers including MediaTek, now facing increasingly tight capacity support from domestic backend houses, are expected to release some orders to Chinese OSATs...
Monday 8 March 2021
Holtek to raise MCU prices by 15%
Holtek Semiconductor is poised to hike quotes for all its MCU lineups by about 15%, with the new prices to be effective starting April 1, according to company president Gordon Gau...
Friday 5 March 2021
PCB maker Apex expects strong 1H21 amid challenges
Taiwan's PCB maker Apex International, with main manufacturing operations in Thailand, expects to enjoy a particularly strong first-half 2021, but it is facing challenges from tight...
Friday 5 March 2021
Taiwan LCD TVs – 4Q 2020
Taiwan's TV shipments went up 9.8% sequentially and 12.3% on year to come to 9.52 million units in the fourth quarter of 2020.
Friday 5 March 2021
Nan Ya to spend NT$8 billion on IC substrate capacity expansion
Nan Ya PCB has disclosed plans to spend at least NT$8 billion (US$287.5 million) in 2021, compared to a capex of NT$7.35 billion for 2020, for capacity expansions at its plants in...
Friday 5 March 2021
Six-inch fab capacity almost fully booked for 3Q21
Six-inch foundries have seen their fab capacity for the third quarter almost fully booked, driven by a ramp-up in demand for analog chips, such as power management ICs, and discrete...
Friday 5 March 2021
DRAM, NOR flash prices to rise through 2H21
DRAM and NOR flash memory prices are expected to rise through the second half of 2021, as growth on the supply side fails to catch up, according to industry sources.