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Monday 27 July 2020
PC chipmakers seeking more foundry support to digest ballooning orders
Taiwan's designers of peripheral chips for PCs and notebooks are trying hard to vie for more capacity support from foundry partners seeking to meet strong replacement demand in the...
Monday 27 July 2020
PCB firms optimistic about notebook demand in 2H20
Taiwan-based PCB manufacturers are optimistic about demand for notebook applications in the second half of 2020, judging from the outlook given by notebook ODMs.
Monday 27 July 2020
MediaTek bracing for strong 2H20 thanks to 5G SoCs
MediaTek is expected to see its revenues grow onward quarter by quarter in the second half of 2020, bolstered by a comprehensive lineup of 5G chips and other ASIC portfolios, according...
Monday 27 July 2020
TSMC EUV nodes to attract orders from Intel, sources say
Intel at its recent earnings call disclosed that its next-generation 7nm processors, including the company's first 7nm datacenter GPU design, would rely on external and internal process...
Monday 27 July 2020
Faraday sees profits surge 265% in 2Q20
Faraday Technology, a fabless ASIC service and silicon IP provider, has announced net profits jumped 265% sequentially to NT$143 million (US$4.86 million) in the second quarter of...
Friday 24 July 2020
Intel reports record 2Q20 sales
Intel achieved record second-quarter revenues with 34% data-centric revenue growth and 7% PC-centric revenue growth on year. These results were driven by strong sales of cloud, notebook,...
Friday 24 July 2020
Highlights of the day: Memory inventory piling up
Memory demand for smartphones remains sluggish, and demand from the data center and server segment is slowing down, pushing up inventory levels at memory...
Friday 24 July 2020
FineMat eyeing mask demand from OLED panel sector in 2H20
Taiwan-based FineMat Applied Materials, a maker of common metal masks (CMM) needed for AMOLED panel production, expects demand for its products to rebound in the third quarter of...
Friday 24 July 2020
Taiwan PCB makers to step up shipments for PS5 in late 3Q20
Taiwan's PCB makers in the supply chain of Sony's new-generation PS5 games console are expected to step up their shipments of rigid mainboards for the new device in the latter half...
Friday 24 July 2020
Semiconductor equipment billings slip in June
June billings among North American manufacturers of semiconductor production equipment slipped 1.1% sequentially but stayed above US$2 billion, according to SEMI.
Friday 24 July 2020
Equipment maker Nova positive about 2H20
Taiwan-based Nova Technology, which specializes in water, gas and chemical process systems, expects a substantial pick-up in orders from China's chipmaking sector to drive its overall...
Friday 24 July 2020
ABF substrate suppliers see clear order visibility through 2021
ABF substrate suppliers including Unimicron Technology, Nan Ya PCB and Kinsus Interconnect Technology have all seen their order visibility extend into 2021, thanks to continued robust...
Friday 24 July 2020
Cadence and UMC certify mmWave reference flow on 28HPC+ process for advanced RF designs
Cadence Design Systems and United Microelectronics (UMC) have jointly announced that the Cadence millimeter wave (mmWave) reference flow has achieved certification for UMC's 28HPC+...
Thursday 23 July 2020
Tripod to supply super-thin rigid PCBs for Apple mini LED-backlit devices
PCB manufacturer Tripod Technology has reportedly cut into the supply chain for Apple's upcoming mini LED-backlit iPads and MacBooks and will offer super-thin rigid boards for the...
Thursday 23 July 2020
Sage Microelectronic achieves high reliability and performance with SSD controllers
From life sciences to astrophysics to quantum physics, advanced computation in every field heavily relies on high-performance computing (HPC) storage systems. While most enterprise...