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Monday 18 December 2017
SPIL, KYEC to benefit from Huawei-Dialog tie
Taiwan-based IC backend service firms Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) and King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) are expected to see their sales momentum continue into 2018 thanks to...
Monday 18 December 2017
North American semiconductor equipment industry billings up in November, says SEMI
North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$2.05 billion in billings worldwide in November 2017 (three-month average basis), according to SEMI.
Friday 15 December 2017
IC substrates distributor Niching upbeat about 2018 performance
Taiwan-based semiconductor packaging material and equipment distributor Niching Industrial is optimistic about its 2018 performance due to rising demand for memory IC substrates,...
Friday 15 December 2017
MediaTek Sensio-powered smartphones, wearables to hit market in 1Q18
MediaTek has revealed that it has received orders for its newly released health monitoring solution, Sensio MT6381, from China-based first-tier smartphone vendors and other wearable...
Friday 15 December 2017
MediaTek unveils new biosensor solutions for smartphones
MediaTek has unveiled its first 6-in-1 smartphone biosensor module, MediaTek Sensio MT6381, a powerful advanced health monitoring solution which makes it easy to track heart rates,...
Thursday 14 December 2017
NXP pushing partnerships with China developers
NXP Semiconductors has announced a strategic partnership with Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing and business unit of Alibaba Group. The two companies are working together to enable...
Thursday 14 December 2017
STMicroelectronics acquires Atollic
STMicroelectronics has announced its acquisition of software-development tools specialist Atollic. Atollic is the supplier of TrueStudio, an integrated development environment (IDE)...
Thursday 14 December 2017
Digitimes Research: All-screen smartphones help ease handset panel oversupply
The growing popularity of all-screen smartphones is playing a role in easing global oversupply of handset displays, as the production of 18:9 panels will consume 12.5-20% more production...
Thursday 14 December 2017
Komatsu adopts Nvidia AI technology
Komatsu, one of the world's largest manufacturers of construction and mining equipment, has selected Nvidia as its partner to bring AI (artificial intelligence) to jobsites, making...
Wednesday 13 December 2017
Advantest and SJ Semiconductor Corp enter volume purchase agreement for T5830 memory testers
Leading semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest Corporation (TSE: 6857) and SJ Semiconductor Corp. (SJSemi), a leading middle-end-of-line (MEOL) semiconductor test-service...
Wednesday 13 December 2017
Qualcomm, MediaTek yet to advance to 7nm node
Qualcomm has decided to continue adopting Samsung's 10nm process for fabricating its newly released Snapdragon 845 chipset for smartphones, instead of advancing to 7nm process node...
Wednesday 13 December 2017
FocalTech to ship 60 million TDDI chips in 2017, says report
Touchscreen and LCD driver solution provider FocalTech Systems is expected to ship a total of 60 million TDDI (touch with display driver integration) chips in 2017, according to a...
Wednesday 13 December 2017
Global large-size LCD panel shipments to slow down in 4Q17, says IDC
Global shipment momentum of large-sized LCD panels is expected to slow down in the fourth quarter of 2017 after experiencing a 5.7% sequential growth to 220 million units in the third...
Wednesday 13 December 2017
Marvell announces 802.11ax wireless portfolio
Marvell has introduced what it claimed to be the industry's most complete 802.11ax wireless product portfolio. Marvell said it is the first to offer a full MU-MIMO and OFDMA uplink...
Wednesday 13 December 2017
Semiconductor equipment market to break record in 2017, says SEMI
SEMI has projected that worldwide sales of new semiconductor manufacturing equipment will increase 35.6% to US$55.9 billion in 2017, marking the first time that the semiconductor...