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Wednesday 19 July 2017
Chipbond, ChipMOS seeing robust gold bumping demand
Backend houses Chipbond Technology and ChipMOS Technologies have both cut into the supply chains of US and Korea smartphone brands with their gold bumping services, and are set to...
Wednesday 19 July 2017
Digitimes Research: Panel makers pushing 10.5G lines to enrich product mix
Panel makers have been aggressively making investments in 10.5G or 11G LCD production lines anticipating that demand for 65-inch and above applications and 8K displays will surge...
Wednesday 19 July 2017
IC vendors ramping up solutions for voice assistants
A number of China- and Taiwan-based IC design houses are ramping up their production of speaker solutions, MEMS microphones and other chips to meet increasing demand for voice assistant...
Wednesday 19 July 2017
FD-SOI a promising technology: Q&A with Globalfoundries CEO Sanjay Jha
Globalfoundries' fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator FD-SOI process technology targeted at Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and Big Data applications has started...
Tuesday 18 July 2017
TSMC expanding number of equipment suppliers for 7nm
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is expanding the number of suppliers of equipment for its 7nm process in a bid to maintain an ecosystem pricing balance, according...
Tuesday 18 July 2017
Installed 8-inch fab capacity to rise through 2020, says SEMI
Installed 8-inch (200mm) fab capacity has increased since 2009, and will reach close to 5.4 million wafers per month (wpm) by the end of 2017, according to SEMI. By 2020, 200mm capacity...
Tuesday 18 July 2017
Taiwan firms urged to develop integrated chips for AI systems
Taiwan should strive to become an exporter of AI (artificial intelligence) system products and to develop niche-type integrated smart system chips that could reach a production value...
Tuesday 18 July 2017
Macronix launches AEC-Q100 full compliant NAND flash memory
Macronix International has launched an AEC-Q100 Grade 2/3 compliant NAND flash memory product. The company added its NAND flash memory has passed all the stringent AEC-Q100 reliability...
Monday 17 July 2017
Globalfoundries and VeriSilicon to enable single-chip solution for next-gen IoT networks
Globalfoundries and VeriSilicon have announced a collaboration to deliver a single-chip IoT solution for next-generation Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networks. Leveraging GF's 22FDX...
Friday 14 July 2017
Insyde delivers BIOS and systems management firmware for new Intel Xeon scalable processors
Insyde Software, a provider of UEFI BIOS and systems management software, has announced that its BIOS and BMC firmware solutions offer full support for the latest Intel Xeon Skylake-SP...
Friday 14 July 2017
IC design house Nyquest 2Q17 profits to hit record high
Consumer IC design company Nyquest Technology is expected to report a record EPS of over NT$1.50 (US$0.05) for the second quarter of 2017, when revenues also hit a record high of...
Friday 14 July 2017
Semi content in electronic systems forecast to set new record in 2017, says IC Insights
The global electronic systems market will grow only 2% to US$1,493 billion in 2017, while the worldwide semiconductor market is expected to surge by 15% to US$419.1 billion, according...
Friday 14 July 2017
Large-size panel production capacity growing, says firm
The global production capacity for large-size flat panels is projecting to expand at a rate of 295,000 units a month in 2017, with more than 60% of the newly added production capacity...
Friday 14 July 2017
Faraday unveils 28HPC USB 3.1 PHY and 40LP Type-C PHY with PD controller
Faraday Technology, a Taiwan-based ASIC design service and IP provider, has announced the availability of its USB 3.1 PHY on UMC 28HPC process, as well as the silicon-verified USB...
Friday 14 July 2017
Skyworks seeking acquisition in Taiwan
Skyworks is evaluating the feasibility of acquiring either RF component specialist Richwave Technology or the power amplifier (PA) department of Airoha Technology, a unit of MediaTek,...