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Friday 26 February 2021
Highlights of the day: TSMC expanding 5nm capacity
TSMC is fast expanding capacity for 5nm process to meet strong demand from a host of heavyweight clients, including Apple, AMD and MediaTek. The foundry house's capacity for 5nm...
Friday 26 February 2021
Taiwan PCB makers to embrace bright prospects for 2021
Taiwan-based PCB makers are expected to see their combined output value grow further in 2021, driven by strong demand for IC substrates, HDI boards and flexible PCBs, according to...
Friday 26 February 2021
TPK to see 1Q21 revenues grow 5-10% sequentially
Touch panel modules maker TPK Holding, after seeing its 2020 net profits climb to a three-year high of NT$1.03 billion (US$37 million), expects its first-quarter 2021 revenues to...
Friday 26 February 2021
K&S expects miniLED backlight applications to grow exponentially
Singapore-based semiconductor packaging equipment vendor K&S has seen strong influx of orders for wire bonders for logic ICs and memory chips with delivery lead times extending...
Friday 26 February 2021
Phison puts increased focus on non-CE apps
Phison Electronics, which specializes in flash storage devices and controller ICs, has put increased focus on enterprise, automotive and industrial applications while lowering sales...
Friday 26 February 2021
Kioxia breaks ground for new 3D NAND wafer fab
Kioxia held a groundbreaking ceremony for a semiconductor fabrication facility, dubbed Fab 7, at its factory site in Yokkaichi, Japan on February 24. The facility will be dedicated...
Friday 26 February 2021
MediaTek wins more TSMC support to boost 5G chip shipments
MediaTek has obtained sufficient 6nm and 7nm process capacity at TSMC, which will allow the mobile SoC specialist to boost its 5G chip shipments in 2021, according to industry sour...
Thursday 25 February 2021
Highlights of the day: Chip shortages not to ease anytime soon
IC manufacturing capacity has been tight, resulting in chip shortages that some expect to last into 2020. Shortages...
Thursday 25 February 2021
Unimicron eyeing ABF substrate as major growth driver in 2021
IC substrate and PCB maker Unimicron Technology expects ABF substrates to remain its major growth driver in 2021 and will maintain high capacity utilization for the product line throughout...
Thursday 25 February 2021
China MOSFET suppliers to raise prices again
China-based power MOSFET and other power device suppliers have already raised their quotes by 10-15% recently amid tight foundry capacity, and will make another upward price adjustments,...
Thursday 25 February 2021
Macroblock may start volume shipments for miniLED backlight driver ICs in 2H21
Macroblock has developed miniLED backlighting driver ICs and is likely to begin volume shipments for such driver ICs for use in tablets, notebooks, gaming monitors and TVs in second-half...
Thursday 25 February 2021
LCD panel prices set to rise further in March
LCD panel prices will continue rising in March after moving up in February, as supply remains constrained due to shortages of upstream chips and materials despite strong demand from...
Thursday 25 February 2021
Chip shortage likely to persist through 2022, says Silicon Motion
Foundry and backend capacity constraints resulting in a global shortage of semiconductors will likely persist through 2022, according to Silicon Motion Technology, a Taiwan-based...
Thursday 25 February 2021
Silicon Motion breaks ground for new HQ
Flash device controller IC company Silicon Motion Technology held a groundbreaking ceremony on February 24 for its new headquarters in northern Taiwan.
Wednesday 24 February 2021
Highlights of the day: Taiwan foundries face water shortages
Unusually low rainfalls in Taiwan over the past year have resulted in water shortages, particularly in the southern parts of the country. Some companies at the Southern Taiwan Science...