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Friday 3 December 2021
ASE obtains major orders for new Qualcomm mobile SoC
Taiwan's leading backend house ASE Technology and its affiliate Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) have obtained major orders for processing Qualcomm's just-unveiled flagship...
Thursday 2 December 2021
Highlights of the day: TSMC begins 3nm pilot production
TSMC has started pilot production of chips using its N3 process, and is on track to move the 3nm process to volume...
Thursday 2 December 2021
Will Samsung 3nm GAA process win over major TSMC clients?
Samsung Electronics has been actively pursuing 3nm GAA chip orders, with speculation that AMD and Qualcomm could be among the first customers of its newer foundry process technology...
Thursday 2 December 2021
TSMC enters pilot production of 3nm chips
TSMC has kicked off pilot production of chips built using N3 (namely 3nm process technology) at its Fab 18 in southern Taiwan, and will move the process to volume production by the...
Wednesday 1 December 2021
TSMC advanced packaging enters next phase of development, says company VP
TSMC's 3DFabric family of 3D silicon stacking and advanced packaging technologies is in the next stage of its development, advancing from system integration to system scaling, according...
Wednesday 1 December 2021
Canada reveals semiconductor roadmap 2050 action plan to build domestic IC supplies
The Canada Semiconductor Council unveiled a report with the title "Roadmap to 2050: Canada's Semiconductor Action Plan" in November, trying to come up with a strategy to address the...
Tuesday 30 November 2021
Taiwan firms gearing up for upcoming Nvidia 5nm gaming GPUs
TSMC, ASE Technology and other Taiwan-based backend firms are all gearing up for the launch of Nvidia's Ada Lovelace-architecture RTX 40 series GPUs next year, according to industry...
Monday 29 November 2021
New IC fab projects to draw government subsidies in Japan
TSMC, Kioxia and Micron Technology are reportedly expected to receive government subsidies in Japan to support their new fabs or expansion projects locally in Japan.
Monday 29 November 2021
Taiwan top-3 foundries poised to see combined revenues increase 25% in 2021
TSMC, United Microelectronics (UMC) and Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) are expected to see their combined revenues increase about 4% sequentially in the fourth quarter...
Friday 26 November 2021
IC test interface vendors poised to embrace booming demand for HPC chips
Peripheral backend supply chain players including makers of high-end customized IC testing sockets, wafer probe cards and burn-in boards, apart from ABF substrates, are all gearing...
Friday 26 November 2021
Taiwan IC design houses brace for profit erosion
Taiwan-based IC design houses particularly second-tier players are poised to see their profits eroded by rising foundry costs in 2022, as their customers are increasingly reluctant...
Friday 26 November 2021
EDAs to play crucial role in upcoming 3D IC era
Going beyond Moore's Law has become an important force driving advanced semiconductor technology. Top companies such as TSMC, Samsung Electronics and Intel are all already seeing...
Thursday 25 November 2021
Highlights of the day: TSMC expands partnership with OSATs
To meet surging demand for heterogeneous chips, TSMC is expected to adopt a more agile mode of cooperation with OSATs...
Thursday 25 November 2021
TSMC outsources part of CoWoS packaging production to OSATs
TSMC has outsourced part of its chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) packaging to OSATs including Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) and...