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Monday 4 June 2018
Automotive IC market on pace for 3rd consecutive record year
The automotive IC market is on pace to grow 18.5% to a new record high of US$32.3 billion in 2018, surpassing the previous record of US$27.2 billion set last year, according to IC...
Friday 1 June 2018
GEM embracing robust orders for packaging diverse MOSFETs
Power semiconductor backend specialist GEM Services is embracing strong orders for packaging all types of MOSFET chips, and is expected to post 30-40% annual growth in revenues contributed...
Friday 1 June 2018
Arm intros new Cortex-A76 CPU suite
Arm has introduced its Cortex-A76 CPU, a new microarchitecture enabling 35% more performance and 40% less power, and the ARM Mali-G76 GPU and Mali-V76 VPU to deliver "laptop-class...
Friday 1 June 2018
Foundries eyeing AI chip orders with advanced process technologies
Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC), and the China-based production subsidiaries of both Globalfoundries and United Microelectronics (UMC) are looking to expand their...
Thursday 31 May 2018
GPU computing accelerating AI development, says Nvidia CEO
The time for GPU computing has come, and such computing is accelerating the development of AI (artificial intelligence), with demand for GPU computing power to see a 100-fold increase,...
Thursday 31 May 2018
Global 2017 smartphone AP market drops while growth resumes in tablet AP sector, says Strategy Analytics
The global smartphone applications processor (AP) market declined 5% on year to US$20.2 billion in 2017, while the tablet AP market grew 3% to US$2 billion, according to Strategy...
Thursday 31 May 2018
Taiflex optimistic about flexible PCB market
Taiwan-based Taiflex Scientific, which supplies flexible copper clad laminates (FCCL), expects the flexible PCB (FPCB) market to continue growing.
Thursday 31 May 2018
Nova enjoys 40% growth in revenues from China
Taiwan-based Nova Technology, which specializes in services of water, gas and chemical process systems, saw revenues generated from the China market surge 40% on year in 2017.
Thursday 31 May 2018
Aspeed debuts 6-lens spherical image processor
Server management SoC solution specialist Aspeed Technology has unveiled the world's first six-lens spherical image SoC solution, designed exclusively for 360-degree image processing,...
Wednesday 30 May 2018
New Qualcomm chip built on Samsung 10nm process
Qualcomm's recently-introduced Snapdragon 710 mobile chip, manufactured using Samsung's 10nm LPP process technology, will be rivaling MediaTek's Helio P60 series chip built using...
Wednesday 30 May 2018
Foxsemicon expects capacity expansion to bring record revenues for 2018
Semiconductor equipment maker Foxsemicon Integrated Technology, an affiliate of the Foxconn Group, has completed capacity expansions at its Kunshan (China) plants to better meet brisk...
Wednesday 30 May 2018
Quotes for 6-inch capacity to rise 10%
Quotes for 6-inch foundry capacity will rise 10% in the third quarter as demand for power semiconductor devices has been strong, according to industry sources.
Wednesday 30 May 2018
IC sector prospering in Hefei, China
The IC industry in Hefei is one of the fast-growing IC industry clusters in China. In less than three years, a total of 129 IC companies including fabless firms, foundries and backend...
Wednesday 30 May 2018
Huaxintong to roll out 1st-generation server chip
Huaxintong Semiconductor Technology, a joint venture between China's Guizhou provincial government and Qualcomm, will reportedly roll out the first generation of its in-house developed...
Wednesday 30 May 2018
Fabless firms to encounter rising foundry and mask costs in 2H18
Taiwan-based IC design houses have expressed caution about their gross margin performance in the second half of 2018, as they will encounter rising costs including higher quotes asked...