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Wednesday 2 November 2022
IC design houses fail to negotiate lower quotes with TSMC, UMC
IC design houses have failed to negotiate lower foundry quotes for the first half of 2023 with TSMC and United Microelectronics (UMC), as the former foundry maintains its plan for...
Monday 31 October 2022
TSMC sees major clients continue order cuts, but remains confident about 2023
With semiconductor inventory woes intensifying at supply chains, even TSMC cannot withstand the subsequent order-cutting storm, as many of its top-10 clients have cut more orders...
Thursday 27 October 2022
TSMC launches OIP 3DFabric Alliance
TSMC has announced the Open Innovation Platform (OIP) 3DFabric Alliance to help customers achieve fast implementation of silicon and system-level innovations and enable next-generation...
Thursday 27 October 2022
WPG eyeing bigger presence beyond Greater China markets
IC distributor WPG is looking to grow its presence in non-Greater China markets, with plans to set up new branch offices in North America and Southeast Asia to serve its customers...
Thursday 27 October 2022
Major foundries see lead times for fab tools shorten
Tougher US controls of semiconductor tech exports to China have considerably increased the availability of fab tools available and brought up the fab toolmakers' inventory levels,...
Wednesday 26 October 2022
Nvidia CEO meeting Taiwan suppliers
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is now in Taiwan meeting TSMC and other Taiwan-based suppliers, as well as customers, hoping to work together to go through difficult times facing the industry...
Tuesday 25 October 2022
Chiplet mass adoption easier said than done
As the semiconductor industry once again frets over the future of Moore's Law, the notion of chiplets has gained traction, especially as the technology has come to be prominently...
Tuesday 25 October 2022
TSMC, Samsung face difficulty in ramping up 3nm chip production
Both TSMC and Samsung Electronics are seeing their production scale for 3nm chips constrained due to difficulty in having good control of orders from big clients, and their capacity...
Tuesday 25 October 2022
TSMC adds new variant to CoWoS packaging
TSMC is in talks with its major clients about the adoption of its new CoWoS-R+ packaging technology for HPC chips utilizing high-bandwidth memory such as HBM3, according to industry...
Monday 24 October 2022
PC, handset sales could worsen next year to 2019-2020 levels, say foundry sources
Sluggish PC and handset sales are expected to worsen further in the first half of 2023, and most supply chain players are likely to see their shipments and revenues for next year...
Monday 24 October 2022
TSMC suspends work for Chinese chip startup amid US curbs
TSMC has suspended production of advanced silicon for Chinese startup Biren Technology to ensure compliance with US regulations, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Friday 21 October 2022
ASML reiterates optimism as on-shoring demand bolsters growth
Dutch semiconductor equipment manufacturer ASML's Q3 financial report exhumes optimism over the outlook through 2025-2030 due to the limited direct impact of the US-China Chip War...
Friday 21 October 2022
TSMC sees utilization rates for advanced packaging loosen
TSMC has seen capacity utilization rates for advanced integrated fan-out (InFO) and chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) packaging start loosening in the fourth quarter of 2022, due...
Thursday 20 October 2022
Taiwan wafer foundry industry, 3Q 2022
The four leading Taiwan-based foundries - TSMC, UMC, PSMC and VIS - together are on course to generate revenues exceeding US$90 billion in 2022, soaring 31.8% from a year ago.
Thursday 20 October 2022
TSMC's Mark Liu wants TSIA members to 'rest assured and focus on Taiwan'
Chairman of TSMC Mark Liu, also the chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA), said in the association's 2022 annual conference on October 19 that "people should...