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Thursday 29 April 2021
Ibiden to expand high-end ABF substrate capacity
Ibiden has announced plans to inject JPY180 billion (US$1.66 billion) into the expansion of production capacity for high-end IC substrates for applications such as servers and image...
Thursday 29 April 2021
UMC to expand factory site in southern Taiwan
Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) has announced plans to invest a total of NT$100 billion (US$3.58 billion) in the expansion of its 12-inch factory site in southern...
Wednesday 28 April 2021
Highlights of the day: Component shortages continue to affect ICT supply chain
The ICT supply chain continues to be influenced by serious component shortages and UMC is now looking to have its major clients to enter into 3-year...
Wednesday 28 April 2021
PCB, CCL makers under pressure from rising copper price
PCB and CCL makers, while seeing strong orders, have been under pressure of ongoing hikes in international copper price, according to industry sources.
Wednesday 28 April 2021
Zheng Ding to up miniLED backlit PCB shipments for Apple devices in 2H21
Taiwan's Zhen Ding Technology is expected to further ramp up its shipments of miniLED backlight boards for Apple devices in the second half of the year, when the US vendor is very...
Wednesday 28 April 2021
Gudeng breaks ground for new plant in northern Taiwan
Gudeng Precision Industrial, a semiconductor front-end equipment manufacturer specializing in mask solutions and wafer handling tools, broke ground on April 27 for a new plant in...
Wednesday 28 April 2021
Taiwan IC design houses see 1Q21 gross margins hike
Taiwan-based IC design houses particularly those specializing in display driver ICs and MOSFET chips are set to see their gross margins and profitability hike in the first quarter...
Wednesday 28 April 2021
UMC eyeing long-term contracts with major clients
Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) is striving to get its major clients including Samsung Electronics, MediaTek and Qualcomm to enter into 3-year supply agreements, according...
Wednesday 28 April 2021
WT Micro expects up to 30% revenue surge in 2Q21
Taiwan-based IC distributor WT Microelectronics expects to post revenue in a range between NT$92 billion (US$3.3 billion) and NT$98 billion in the second quarter of 2021, representing...
Wednesday 28 April 2021
SK Hynix posts operating profit and revenue increases in 1Q21
SK Hynix has reported operating profit climbed 37% sequentially and 66% on year to KRW1.32 trillion (US$1.19 billion) in the first quarter of 2021, while revenue grew 7% on quarter...
Wednesday 28 April 2021
Faraday upbeat about 1H21
Faraday Technology, a fabless ASIC service and silicon IP provider, has expressed optimism about its sales growth in the first half of 2021 driven by robust growth in revenue generated...
Tuesday 27 April 2021
Prospects of mmWave 5G chips may not become clear till 2H22
The chance of mmWave chips mounting a major challenge to the title of being the leading 5G mobile solutions will remain until at least the second half of 2022 due to tight capacity...
Tuesday 27 April 2021
Highlights of the day: Intel striving to fend off AMD in server market
Intel's overall sales for first-quarter 2021 were flat but revenues from its datacenter business dropped 20% on year, seriously undermining the chip giant's profitability. Intel...
Tuesday 27 April 2021
PCB supply chain eyeing replacement demand stoked by new server CPUs
Taiwan's PCB supply chain players are optimistic that they will receive a boost from the upcoming server replacement demand to be driven by rollouts of new processors by Intel, according...
Tuesday 27 April 2021
Darwin upbeats about demand for miniLED backlight applications
Taiwan-based Darwin Precisions, which offers fine metal masks (FMM) for OLED panel production, expects robust demand for miniLED-backlit applications to drive its sales growth in...