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Thursday 3 August 2023
Japan may provide funding for one-third of the second TSMC plant
Leading lawmakers of Japan's ruling party revealed their willingness to offer lucrative subsidies to woo TSMC's investments as the chipmaking giant is reportedly looking to set up...
Thursday 3 August 2023
Labor unions may hinder TSMC's overseas fab expansions
The expansion of TSMC's fabs abroad may be hampered by strong labor unions in the US and Europe, according to industry sources.
Thursday 3 August 2023
TSMC initiates fresh round of advanced packaging equipment orders
TSMC has recently initiated a new round of orders with advanced packaging equipment suppliers including Apic Yamada, Disco, Gudeng Precision Industrial and Scientech, according to...
Thursday 3 August 2023
AMD to adopt TSMC 3D SoIC tech in gaming notebook processors, say sources
AMD plans to incorporate TSMC's 3D SoIC (system on integrated circuits) stacking and chiplet packaging technology into its gaming notebook processors, following the company's implementation...
Tuesday 1 August 2023
Global Unichip cuts 2023 revenue outlook, says report
Global Unichip, an IC design services provider partnering mainly with TSMC, has lowered its revenue growth forecast for 2023 to a single-digit percentage, according to a report by...
Tuesday 1 August 2023
TSMC expected to benefit as Japan reinstates industrial water subsidies
Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) will restart industrial water project subsidies to assist local governments in attracting semiconductor manufacturers to produce...
Tuesday 1 August 2023
IC verification and analysis labs see promising future
Taiwanese companies specializing in materials analysis (MA), reliability analysis (RA), and failure analysis (FA) are generally optimistic about their future prospects in light of...
Tuesday 1 August 2023
Nvidia to embrace strong 2H23
Nvidia is gearing up for a prosperous second half of 2023, thanks to a spike in demand for its artificial intelligence processors, industry sources believe.
Monday 31 July 2023
TSMC reportedly invited to set up CoWoS packaging capacity in US, Japan
In light of the severe shortage of CoWoS (chip-on-wafer-on-substrate) packaging capacity for AI GPUs now in hot demand, the US and Japan reportedly are aggressively re-inviting TSMC...
Monday 31 July 2023
TSMC complements shortcomings with a win-win investment in Japan
TSMC, which is under pressure from major countries to set up factories overseas, has been criticized for receiving subsidies from the US and Germany by Intel and GlobalFoundries respectively...
Friday 28 July 2023
IFS sees 2Q23 sales quadruple from year ago; Intel 20A and 18A stay on steady track
Intel has posted a surging on-year growth of 307% in revenues from Intel Foundry Service (IFS) and the chip giant believes its on-schedule manufacturing process developments of Intel...
Friday 28 July 2023
TSMC inaugurates Global R&D Center to explore new materials and transistor architecture research
TSMC inaugurates its Global Research and Development Center, a building it proclaimed as the "Bell Labs in Taiwan" in Hsinchu on July 28. The building will house more than 7,000 R&D...
Friday 28 July 2023
Micron announces highest capacity HBM with collaboration efforts from TSMC
Micron Technology has announced that it has begun sampling what it calls the industry's first 8-high 24GB HBM3 Gen2 memory with bandwidth greater than 1.2TB/s and pin speed over 9.2Gb/s,...
Thursday 27 July 2023
Deepening Poland-Taiwan semiconductor cooperation on the horizon
Riding on the regionalization trend of semiconductor manufacturing, Poland is seeking a greater role in the global IC value chain. The Central European country comes under increasing...
Wednesday 26 July 2023
TSMC's new CoWoS packaging plant to start volume production in mid-2027
TSMC is planning to invest nearly NT$90 billion (US$2.85 billion) to establish an advanced chip packaging plant in Miaoli, northern Taiwan with the facility scheduled to begin volume...