In 2020, Samsung Electronics had a monthly capacity of 260,000 wafers for its 8-inch and 12-inch fabrication each, which increased to 265,000 and 325,000 respectively in 2021. It...
Usually a low-key company that has always been adhering to its principle of not engaging in competition with clients, TSMC is being drawn into the limelight for its dominant position...
As visitors return to Taipei's exhibition halls for the semiconductor industry's annual event, Semicon Taiwan 2022, browsing as usual through the hundreds of exhibitors specialized...
Cars will require more chips as they become electrified and intelligent. A TSMC executive on Thursday said companies should build their inventory for automotive ICs now as the chip...
With TSMC poised to carry out its capacity expansion projects in Taiwan and overseas on schedule, fab toolmakers remain upbeat about demand from the pure-play foundry, according to...
Automotive OEMs should work closely with IDM and pure-play foundries and consider building "buffer stocks" to ensure their stable supply, according to Ming-Cheng Lin, director of...
ASE Technology is partnering with TSMC on the development of silicon photonics (SiPh), and has cut into the supply chain of Tier-1 chip vendors for co-packaged optics (CPO) products,...
As part of its efforts to ease serious domestic talent shortage, the government in Taiwan has recently reactivated its overseas recruitment campaign, which was earlier interrupted...
As semiconductor companies are busy building new fabs in Asia and also in Europe and the US, talent shortage is becoming a big headache. How desperate are semiconductor companies...
Burn J Lin, a former TSMC vice president best known for his pioneering work on immersion lithography, has lately offered a dose of optimism towards the Taiwanese foundry's future,...
TSMC is involved in an R&D project led by Nvidia to use its silicon photonic (SiPh) integration technology called COUPE (compact universal photonic engine) for graphics hardware...
The actual semiconductor inventory storm has not yet arrived, and different supply chain segments will show starkly divided performances in the fourth quarter of the year, with most...
With traditional OSAT providers, IDMs and foundries like Intel, TSMC and ASE heading into advanced packaging technologies to tap the growing high performance computing market, concerns...
