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Friday 4 January 2019
Taiwan panel industry remains healthy
Taiwan's LCD industry remains healthy despite the financial woes of one of its major players, Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT), according to former Innolux chairman Tuan Hsing-chien.
Friday 4 January 2019
China set to impose stricter regulations on PCB industry
China will implement a new set of strict regulations on the operations of the PCB industry on February 1, which may threaten the survival of small- to medium-size makers, according...
Thursday 3 January 2019
Dispay industry must step up technological development, says Merck executive VP
The display industry must step up efforts catering to the market, providing new technologies that can meet growing demand for high resolution, high brightness screens, foldable and...
Thursday 3 January 2019
Chipmakers keen to roll out NPU-based AI mobile SoCs
Discrete NPU (neural processing unit) is increasingly incorporated by chipmakers including Huawei HiSilicon, Qualcomm and MediaTek into their mobile chip solutions to execute AI computing...
Thursday 3 January 2019
Silicon IP developer M31 kicks off IPO auction
M31 Technology, a silicon intellectual property (IP) provider in TSMC's IP Alliance, will hold an IPO auction during January 3-7 ahead of its listing on the Taipei Exchange on January...
Thursday 3 January 2019
CHPT entering US space supply chain with dedicated PCBs
In efforts to explore new business territories, Taiwan PCB makers including Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) are keen to tap into the supply chains of US aerospace firms including...
Thursday 3 January 2019
2018 review and 2019 outlook: EDA going on cloud to cut IC design cost
Along with increasingly advanced foundry technologies, IC design cost has sharply hiked, prompting chip designers to use cloud computing services to undertake EDA (electronic design...
Wednesday 2 January 2019
Nan Ya PCB seeking profitability for entire 2019 on 5G demand
Taiwan-based Nan Ya PCB is gearing up to further upgrade its process technology and adjust product portfolios seeking to fully swing to profitability in the entire 2019 by cashing...
Wednesday 2 January 2019
Supply chain conservative about 2019 mining ASIC outlook
Crypto mining fever has subsided along with Bitcoin price collapsing from US$15,000 in January 2018 to under US$4,000 in December, sending mining ASICs supply chain players turning...
Friday 28 December 2018
Conservative attitude weakens MediaTek presence in high-end mobile chip market
Taiwan-based IC designer MediaTek has repeatedly outperformed most peers in the development of mobile chip solutions, but its long conservative practice of offering higher-end solutions...
Friday 28 December 2018
2018 review and 2019 outlook: The semiconductor scene in East Asia
As far as the US-China trade war is concerned, a major battleground is the semiconductor sector in East Asia, where some of the world's most important IT players are located: South...
Friday 28 December 2018
Some small- to medium-size panel makers in limbo
Small- to medium-size flat panel makers in Taiwan and Japan engulfed in difficulties are desperately seeking ways to bail themselves out.
Thursday 27 December 2018
ASIC vendors eyeing hefty demand growth
Taiwan-based ASIC vendors expect staggering growth in orders in the next few years, driven by demand from the high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors...
Thursday 27 December 2018
China-based InMicro touts Type-C power management chips
Founded in 2014 as an IC design startup in China's southeast port city of Xiamen, InMicro Technology has made its name as a dedicated developer and designer of a series of digital-analog...
Thursday 27 December 2018
YuanSun performs well as first Taiwan IC designer in Xiamen
Since its inception in 2002 as the first Taiwanese-invested semiconductor firm in Xiamen, YuanSun Technologies has been quietly playing a contributing role in the development of the...