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Wednesday 4 November 2020
Qualcomm, MediaTek ramping up orders at foundry houses, backend service firms
Qualcomm and MediaTek both are ramping up their orders at wafer foundry houses and IC backend service suppliers as they plan to roll out their respective next-generation 5G chips...
Wednesday 4 November 2020
Highlights of the day: Memory demand remains weak
Memory spot price rally that had started in September slowed down in October amid growing COVID-19 worries and sluggish demand from the data center sector. Despite a pick-up in demand...
Wednesday 4 November 2020
Realtek sees bright prospects for 4Q20
Network and communication IC supplier Realtek Semiconductor expects its sales to remain buoyant in fourth-quarter 2020 after seeing its revenues grow 29.25% on quarter and 39.68%...
Wednesday 4 November 2020
GlobalWafers runs 12- and 8-inch wafer production at full capacity
GlobalWafers will sustain full capacity utilization for its 12- and 8-inch wafer production lines at least throughout the end of 2020, with its 6-inch wafer capacity over 70% utilized,...
Wednesday 4 November 2020
TSMC sees 28nm process capacity utilization ramp up
TSMC has seen capacity utilization rates for 28nm process technology surge and come to nearly 100% in the fourth quarter of 2020, thanks to the bulk of orders transferred by Qualcomm...
Wednesday 4 November 2020
Taiwan large-size panel shipments to drop in 4Q20, says Digitimes Research
Taiwan's large-size panel shipments (excluding Sharp's) are expected to decline 4.1% sequentially but up 16.1% on year in the fourth quarter of 2020, after growing 11.2% on quarter...
Wednesday 4 November 2020
SEMI expects 300mm fab spending to boom through 2023
SEMI has forecast that 300mm fab investments will grow by 13% in 2020 to eclipse the previous record high set in 2018 and log another banner year for the semiconductor industry in...
Wednesday 4 November 2020
Global silicon wafer shipments slip in 3Q20, says SEMI
Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments contracted 0.5% to 3.135 billion square inches in the third quarter of 2020 compared to the second quarter, but registered a 6.9% increase from...
Tuesday 3 November 2020
RichWave to see strong sales in 4Q20 and 1Q21
RF IC vendor RichWave Technology sees orders rising, expecting consolidated revenues to hit records during fourth-quarter 2020 and first-quarter 2021.
Tuesday 3 November 2020
Shenzhen-based Laibao to build 8.5G LCD fab
Shenzhen-based Laibao High-Tech has struck a deal with the local government in Wuhan, Hebei province to build an 8.5G LCD fab in its Donghu New Technology Development Zone, according...
Tuesday 3 November 2020
Global 3Q20 semiconductor sales increase, says SIA
Worldwide sales of semiconductors totaled US$113.6 billion during the third quarter of 2020, an increase of about 11% over the previous quarter and 5.8% more than the third quarter...
Tuesday 3 November 2020
China smartphone AP shipments increase in 3Q20, says Digitimes Research
Shipments of smartphone-use application processors (AP) to China, including those for handset exports, grew 13.4% sequentially but declined 9.5% on year to 192.6 million units in...
Monday 2 November 2020
Japan panel makers see capacity utilization rates keep improving
Japan-based LCD panel makers including JDI and Sharp, a unit of Foxconn Electronics, have seen capacity utilization rates at their fabs improve significantly thanks to a robust panel...
Monday 2 November 2020
Taiwan GaAs supply chain, IDMs gearing up for Wi-Fi 6 boom
The Wi-Fi 6 penetration rate is likely to advance to 50-60% in 2021 with the latest wireless communication standard increasingly adopted for handsets, routers and notebooks, prompting...
Monday 2 November 2020
MediaTek expects up to 8% revenue drop in 4Q20
MediaTek expects to post revenues of between NT$89.5 billion (US$3.13 billion) and NT$97.3 billion in the fourth quarter of 2020, representing flat growth or an up to 8% decrease...