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Wednesday 4 September 2019
Orders for China homegrown processors rising
Orders for custom-designed processors have been rising from China in 2019, according to industry sources in Taiwan.
Wednesday 4 September 2019
Worldwide OEM semiconductor spending faces biggest decline in a decade
Impacted by softening markets and rising uncertainty in global trade and economy, semiconductor spending of the world's top OEMs will face the steepest decline in a decade. According...
Tuesday 3 September 2019
Samsung Display, LGD lead in OLED panel segment
Efforts by Samsung Display and LG Display (LGD) to shift their production focus from LCD panels to AMOLED models appear to have paid off as the two Korean suppliers are currently...
Tuesday 3 September 2019
COF packaging demand for OLED DDI chips to grow sharply in 2020
COF substrate makers and related packaging houses are expected to operate at full capacity through the end of 2019 on robust demand from smartphone vendors, and their revenues may...
Tuesday 3 September 2019
Unimicron to step up investment for 5G, AI applications
Unimicron Technology has maintained its huge capex budgets for 2019 and 2020 are meant to strengthen its IC substrates technology upgrades and production capacity for the emerging...
Monday 2 September 2019
Rigid-flex boards shipments for AirPods to stay robust
Despite the US tariffs on China-sourced wearable devices taking effect September 1, Taiwanese PCB makers are expected to see their shipments of rigid-flex boards for AirPods remain...
Monday 2 September 2019
Weltrend USB PD chips adopted by China handset vendors
Weltrend Semiconductor's USB power delivery (PD) controller chips reportedly have entered the supply chain of major China-based handset vendors.
Monday 2 September 2019
IC backend service firms to lock in orders for new iPhone launch
Apple has sent out invitations for a new product event on September 10 signaling that Taiwan's IC backend service firms are set to land related orders for new iPhones as expected...
Monday 2 September 2019
Eight-inch foundries see demand pick up
Eight-inch IC foundries have seen their fabless customers engaged in the fingerprint sensor, touchscreen IC, analog chip and LCD driver IC sectors step up their pace of orders recently,...
Friday 30 August 2019
Wus Printed Circuit posts sharp profit rise for 1H19
PCB manufacturer Wus Printed Circuit saw its net profits shoot up over 100% on year in the first half of 2019, thanks mainly to sharp increases in PCB demand for networking equipment,...
Friday 30 August 2019
Taiwan LCD driver IC firms to see pick-up in demand
Taiwan-based LCD driver IC suppliers are expected to see customers step up their pace of orders around the end of the third quarter, with their order visibility for the fourth quarter...
Friday 30 August 2019
Competition to heat up in optical fingerprint sensor market in 2020
Dedicated optical fingerprint sensor chips suppliers Goodix Technology and Egis Technology (EgisTec) may see their monthly and quarterly revenues hit new highs in the second half...
Friday 30 August 2019
GigaDevice develops RISC-V MCU
China-based GigaDevice Semiconductor has unveiled what the company claims is the world's first 32-bit general-purpose MCU based on RISC-V architecture, with the product samples and...
Thursday 29 August 2019
Highlights of the day: Huawei and 5G edge
Development of 5G technologies and products has become a key direction for Huawei's operation with its orders for 5G-related...
Thursday 29 August 2019
Hisilicon likely to be biggest client of TSMC
Huawei's chipmaking arm Hisilicon is expected to become not only the largest Asia-based fabless chipmaker but also TSMC's biggest client in 2020, according to industry sources.