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Wednesday 6 April 2022
IC foundries, fab toolmakers continue to see orders piling up
TSMC and other Taiwan-based IC foundries including United Microelectronics (UMC), Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) and Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing (PSMC) continue...
Friday 1 April 2022
Global smartphone application processor market grows 23% in 2021 revenue
The global smartphone application processor (AP) market grew 23% to US$30.8 billion in 2021, according to Strategy Analytics. Qualcomm maintained its smartphone AP leadership with...
Thursday 31 March 2022
SMIC says production at Shanghai site unaffected by COVID lockdown
China-based pure-play foundry SMIC has said that production at its manufacturing site in Shanghai, where 8- and 12-inch fabrication lines are operated, remains normal and has not...
Thursday 31 March 2022
TSMC to reiterate sales and capex outlook at upcoming investor meeting
TSMC is expected to reiterate its sales growth outlook for 2022 of 25-29% while maintaining its capex target this year of US$40-44 billion at its upcoming investor conference call...
Thursday 31 March 2022
Japan looks to revive semiconductor industry
Japan is under great pressure to find solutions to revive its semiconductor industry, as the ongoing chip shortages and high semiconductor supply chain disruption risks remain major...
Wednesday 30 March 2022
TSMC Arizona fab unlikely to earn without government subsidies
It may be hard for TSMC to generate profits from its new advanced wafer fab in Arizona when the facility becomes operational, if the US government fails to carry out its commitment...
Tuesday 29 March 2022
Concerns raised about COVID impact on IC, IT sectors
Concerns have been raised about the impact of COVID lockdowns in China on the IC and IT industry supply chains this year.
Monday 28 March 2022
STMicro to raise chip prices in 2Q22, other IDMs expected to follow suit
STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific has notified its distributors about price increases for all its product lines in the second quarter of 2022, which may encourage other automotive and...
Monday 28 March 2022
TSMC says production unaffected by COVID lockdown in Shanghai
China has started locking down Shanghai in two phases for mass Covid-19 testing starting today (March 28) amid a resurgence of coronavirus infections. TSMC and other Taiwan-based...
Monday 28 March 2022
TSMC to start operating zero-waste manufacturing center in 2023
TSMC plans to start operating its first zero-waste manufacturing center in Taichung, central Taiwan in 2023, according to Lora Ho, company SVP of Europe & Asia Sales.
Friday 25 March 2022
VisEra expanding production capacity in Taiwan
VisEra Technologies, which specializes in wafer-level CMOS image sensor devices including color filters (CF) and microlens (ML) and has expanded its offerings to include wafer-level...
Friday 25 March 2022
Foundries remain aggressive in fab capacity expansions
TSMC, Samsung Electronics, China's SMIC and other foundries are all poised to carry out their aggressive capacity expansion plans, despite heightened macroeconomic uncertainty.
Thursday 24 March 2022
China OSAT growing advanced packaging capability
Having hired R&D talent from Huawei's HiSilicon, China's leading OSAT Jiangsu Changjiang Electronics Technology (JCET) has been developing its flip-chip(FC) packaging, 2.5D IC,...
Thursday 24 March 2022
Samsung, Intel keen to take slices of foundry market from TSMC
Samsung Electronics and Intel have both stepped up efforts to expand their respective foundry businesses, eyeing bigger slices of the global foundry market particularly in the advanced...
Wednesday 23 March 2022
New Nvidia GPU fabbed by TSMC with 4nm process
Nvidia has announced its next-generation accelerated computing platform with Hopper architecture, dubbed H100 GPU, which is built using TSMC's 4nm (N4) process customized for the...