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Tuesday 26 September 2017
MEMS sensor demand for smartphones, automotive surging
MEMS sensor demand for smartphones and automotive applications has been surging, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC backend houses, which have enjoyed a ramp-up of orders placed...
Tuesday 26 September 2017
Aemulus rolls out 5G test solutions
Malaysia-based automated test equipment (ATE) company Aemulus has announced the availability of its new test solutions for 5G wireless.
Tuesday 26 September 2017
Samsung ready to mass produce MRAM chips using 28nm FD-SOI process
Samsung Foundry will soon be ready to enter mass production of magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) chips built using 28nm fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) process...
Tuesday 26 September 2017
SMIC to build new plant in Ningbo
Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) plans to set up a new plant in Ningbo, China where the pure-play foundry will install its specialty process technology R&D and...
Tuesday 26 September 2017
Sigurd to enter board of Winstek
Winstek Semiconductor (formerly STATS ChipPAC Taiwan Semiconductor) is scheduled to hold a shareholders meeting on November 15 to re-elect its board of directors. Sigurd Microelectronics...
Monday 25 September 2017
Beijing, Shanghai IC sectors prospering
The flourishing IC industries in Beijing and Shanghai has been pushing forward China's overall IC industry development, enabling the rapid rise of China in the global marketplace...
Monday 25 September 2017
Young Fast shifting focus to niche touch panel market
Touch panel solution provider Young Fast Optoelectronics expects the ratio of shipments of its touch panels for industrial control, medical and niche market applications to account...
Monday 25 September 2017
Taiwan IC backend firms to enjoy strong 4Q17
A ramp-up of orders for communications chips, as well as TV panel-use driver ICs and TDDI (touch with display driver) chips, will enable Taiwan-based IC backend firms to enjoy a particularly...
Monday 25 September 2017
Taiwan fabless IC firms seeing orders pull in from China
Taiwan-based fabless chipmakers including suppliers of LCD driver ICs, consumer electronics ICs, PC peripherals, networking and communications chips, have recently seen orders from...
Friday 22 September 2017
CPT reports tight supply for all-screen smartphone panels
Chunghwa Picture Tubes' (CPT) current supply of all-screen smartphone applications are falling short of demand by 20%, according to company vice president Ryan Chung.
Friday 22 September 2017
Panel makers look to mini LED backlighting
As OLED smartphone and TV applications are in short supply with the market segment dominated by Samsung Display and LG Display, LCD panel makers from China and Taiwan are working...
Friday 22 September 2017
North American semi equipment industry billings fall to 4-month low in August
North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted a 3.9% sequential decrease in billings worldwide in August reaching a four-month low of US$2.18 billion, according...
Friday 22 September 2017
Robust memory, panel demand to drive Supreme sales growth in 2H17
Taiwan-based Supreme Electronics, a major IC distributor for Samsung Electronics, is expected to report strong results for the second half of 2017 driven by rising memory prices and...
Friday 22 September 2017
Globalfoundries to roll out 12nm FinFET technology for high-performance devices
Globalfoundries has announced plans to introduce a new 12nm leading-performance (12LP) FinFET semiconductor manufacturing process. The technology is expected to deliver better density...
Thursday 21 September 2017
VIA sees rising income from embedded product lines
VIA Technologies has been pushing its embedded platform business and now sees 30-40% of its revenues coming from the segment, according to the company.