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Tuesday 24 September 2019
Supply chain upbeat about mini LED sector in 2020
Strong demand for mini LED in 2020 is expected offer related equipment suppliers, driver IC vendors, panel makers and materials distributors lucrative business opportunities.
Tuesday 24 September 2019
Semiconductor demand from industrial applications continues to sizzle in 2018, says IHS
Benefitting from broad-based demand growth generated by a plethora of applications, the global industrial semiconductor market expanded by 10.8% to reach US$52 billion in 2018, according...
Tuesday 24 September 2019
Intel sees 14nm chip supply fall short of demand again
Intel has seen its 14nm chip manufacturing capacity fall short of demand again recently, which may force many notebook vendors to postpone their new model launches to next year, according...
Monday 23 September 2019
APCB sees DRAM module boards as new growth driver
APCB, after experiencing lackluster revenue and profit performances in the first half of 2019, expects to perform better in the second half on increased shipments of high-end DRAM...
Friday 20 September 2019
Highlights of the day: Intel stepping up preparations for 7nm manufacturing
Intel in May unveiled plans to launch its 7nm products in 2021, and it is now stepping up efforts towards achieving that goal. It has started placing equipment and materials orders...
Friday 20 September 2019
MediaTek on track to kick off 5G SoC volume production in 1Q20
MediaTek is on track to enter volume production of its first 5G SoC for sub-6GHz networks in January 2020, having begun sampling the chips in the third quarter of 2019, according...
Friday 20 September 2019
Semiconductor leaders urge Taiwan government to invest more in nurturing talent
Several leaders from semiconductor firms and organizations have paid a visit to Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-wen, asking the government to tackle the two biggest issues facing the...
Friday 20 September 2019
Strong handset panel demand to boost HannStar Display sales in 4Q19
HannStar Display expects its sales for the fourth quarter of 2019 to rise sequentially, buoyed by strong demand for handset panels from Chinese vendors, according to company vice...
Friday 20 September 2019
Semiconductor equipment billings stay above US$2 billion in August
Billings among North American manufacturers of semiconductor production equipment dropped both sequentially and on year in August 2019, but stayed above US$2 billion, according to...
Friday 20 September 2019
Semiconductor acquisitions regain momentum in 2019, says IC Insights
After slowing in the past couple years, semiconductor merger and acquisition activity strengthened in the first eight months of 2019, according to IC Insights.
Friday 20 September 2019
Global HDI PCB market surpasses US$10 billion in value, says TPCA
The worldwide market for high-density interconnect (HDI) PCBs came to more than US$10 billion in production value in 2018, with Taiwan accounting for about 40% of the total value,...
Friday 20 September 2019
Intel stepping up EUV equipment, material purchases
Intel has started placing equipment and materials orders for EUV fabrication processes since August, and is stepping up its pace of orders, according to industry sources.
Thursday 19 September 2019
Pan-Moore's Laws to drive expansion in heterogeneous chips integration, says ASE COO
The global semiconductor sector will experience constant quantitative and qualitative changes in the next 20-30 years, and heterogeneous integration will not be confined to CPU and...
Thursday 19 September 2019
Highlights of the day: Moore's Law alive and kicking
Some may think Moore's Law is reaching its limits, but for TSMC, it is still very much alive. The world's number one pure-play foundry is already conducting 3nm...
Thursday 19 September 2019
Foxconn aims to become solution provider in semiconductor industry
The Foxconn Group's development direction in the semiconductor industry will primarily focus on vertical integration, aiming to become a solution provider and devoting its investments...