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Wednesday 22 June 2022
GlobalWafers on track to expand silicon wafer capacity
Eyeing promising long-term demand, silicon wafer supplier GlobalWafers is on track to carry out its capacity expansion plans, according to company chairperson Doris Hsu.
Tuesday 21 June 2022
Taiwan foundries to see fab utilization rates stay above 90% in 2H22
TSMC and other major Taiwan-based foundries have been running their fabs at full capacity utilization, but may see their fab utilization rates drop in the third quarter due to cutbacks...
Monday 20 June 2022
Taiwan backend partners gear up for new AMD, Nvidia HPC chips
Leading CPU and GPU vendors AMD and Nvidia are all set to commercialize brand-new CPU and GPU platforms in 2023, and their backend partners in Taiwan are all gearing up to give full...
Monday 20 June 2022
Samsung eyeing closer ties with ASML, Imec
Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jay Y Lee's recent visits to both ASML in the Netherlands and Imec in Belgium have had industry observers believe that the Korea-based vendor is...
Friday 17 June 2022
TSMC debuts N2 process utilizing nanosheet transistors
TSMC at the company's annual technology symposium for North America unveiled its next-generation N2 process powered by nanosheet transistors. N2 is scheduled to begin production in...
Thursday 16 June 2022
What can foreign battery makers in US learn from TSMC?
As battery demand for energy storage and electric vehicles (EV) rises in the US, lithium battery makers with foreign investment in the country could face similar challenges that TSMC...
Wednesday 15 June 2022
Semiconductors firms - big power users
As global warming receives global attention, curbing greenhouse gas is both a responsibility and pressue for companies. This pressure, which promises to gradually become cost and...
Wednesday 15 June 2022
Top-3 game console vendors show mixed sales amid chip shortages
The world's three leading game console vendors Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft have shown mixed sales results amid the supply crunch of some basic chips and components.
Tuesday 14 June 2022
TSMC tightening up payment terms
TSMC is tightening up its payment terms for better cash flow and greater stability, according to industry sources.
Tuesday 14 June 2022
TSMC runs CoWoS packaging lines at nearly full utilization
Robust AI and HPC processor orders have boosted TSMC's chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) packaging capacity utilization to nearly 100%, according to industry sources.
Monday 13 June 2022
TI reportedly expects analog chip shortage to ease in 2H22
Texas Instruments (TI) has notified its clients that the supply-demand imbalance for analog chips, particularly power management ICs (PMICs), will ease in the second half of the year,...
Monday 13 June 2022
Micron to commercialize 1-gamma EUV process in Taiwan in 2024
US memory vendor Micron Technology is set to move its 1-gamma EUV process technology to volume production at its new fab, A3, in central Taiwan in 2024, and will install the first...
Monday 13 June 2022
Notebook prospects vary with device models, supply chain segments
As a whole, the notebook market has seen a reversal in demand, with consumer models bearing the brunt of sales downturn. Shipments of education-use Chromebooks, which played a pioneering...
Friday 10 June 2022
TSMC, VIS see May revenue hit record highs
Pure-play foundries TSMC and Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) have both announced record-high sales for May 2022, on the heels of United Microelectronics' (UMC) announcement...
Thursday 9 June 2022
TSMC upbeat about coming decade
TSMC remains upbeat about its operations in 2022 and the coming decade, while its 3nm process is set to enter volume production later this year, according to company chairman Mark...