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Tuesday 1 October 2019
ChipMOS, OSE to see 4Q19 revenues surge on flash chips demand
NAND and NOR flash demand for TWS devices, gaming consoles and smartphones has been rising along with the approaching of traditional shopping seasons, providing significant growth...
Tuesday 1 October 2019
MediaTek increases wafer start orders for 5G chips at TSMC
MediaTek reportedly has increased its wafer start orders for 5G chips at TSMC as more of its handset clients in China have taped out 5G-focused smartphones using its SoC solutions,...
Tuesday 1 October 2019
TWS headsets to come with high quality sound, noise reduction capabilities, says Qualcomm executive
In light of the fast growing smart speaker and TWS (true wireless stereo) headset markets, the future development of audio processing chips should focus primarily on delivering high...
Monday 30 September 2019
Highlights of the day: Camera lens suppliers poised for strong growth on 5G smartphones
Despite the US trade sanctions, Huawei has never stopped foraying into the 5G market, neither on the equipment side nor the mobile device segment. Its 5G smartphones with major camera...
Monday 30 September 2019
Chipmakers building backend probing capacity for Wi-Fi 6 chips
Taiwan's IC-design houses including MediaTek and Realtek Semiconductors have been placing more orders for testing gauges such as IC test sockets as these IC vendors are ready to ramp...
Monday 30 September 2019
Optical fingerprint sensors shipments to ramp up in 1Q20
Taiwan's IC designers are set to ramp up shipments of diverse optical in-display fingerprint sensors for smartphone application starting in the first quarter of 2020, and backend...
Monday 30 September 2019
ALi, Rafael Micro see STB chip demand pick up
IC design houses ALi and Rafael Micro have seen demand for set-top boxes (STB) pick up substantially with further improvements in order visibility for the fourth quarter, according...
Friday 27 September 2019
Highlights of the day: Tight supply at TSMC, not just for 7nm
TSMC sees strong demand not just for its 7nm manufacturing node. Some of Taiwan's IC designers have reported that they have been unable to secure full support for their demand from...
Friday 27 September 2019
NAND flash storage demand to rise on 5G commercialization in 2020
NAND flash storage solutions will see much stronger demand in 2020 than 2019 driven by the commercialization of 5G networks and devices, according to Wallace Kou, president and CEO...
Friday 27 September 2019
Qualcomm striving to excel in Wi-Fi market
Qualcomm is deepening its deployment in the Wi-Fi space as demand for IoT-related transmissions is ready for a jump-start, according to Dino Bekis, the firm's vice president and mobile...
Friday 27 September 2019
More Chinese firms developing advanced-node CPUs in-house
More China-based firms have become keen on in-house development of new-generation CPUs and GPUs, allowing Taiwan IC design service providers, especially those associated with TSMC,...
Friday 27 September 2019
Toshiba Memory debuts 2nd-gen serial interface NAND
Toshiba Memory has announced the launch of a new family of SLC NAND flash memory products for embedded applications. Compatible with the widely-used serial peripheral interface (SPI),...
Friday 27 September 2019
Edge computing crucial for AI, 5G complementarity, says Qualcomm CTO
While AI and 5G technologies will closely complement each other in a variety of applications, edge computing will play the most critical role in the complementarity of both technologies,...
Friday 27 September 2019
Arm and TSMC demo 7nm Arm-based CoWoS chiplets for HPC
Arm and TSMC have announced jointly an industry-first 7nm silicon-proven chiplet system based on multiple Arm cores and leveraging TSMC's chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) advanced...
Friday 27 September 2019
Intel provides new Optane, 3D NAND updates
Intel has unveiled its second-generation Optane storage-class memory codenamed Barlow Pass that will be launched along with its new-generation Xeon CPUs in 2020. Intel also disclosed...