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Friday 10 July 2020
TSMC posts record June revenue
TSMC saw its June revenue climb to a record high of NT$120.88 billion (US$4.1 billion), rising 28.8% sequentially and 40.8% on year. Revenue for the first half of the year totaled...
Thursday 9 July 2020
Taiwan IC exports hit record in June
Taiwan's monthly IC exports soared past the US$10 billion level in June for the first time ever, reaching US$10.253 billion for an annual increase of 27.54% due mainly to rush shipments...
Thursday 9 July 2020
Orsted and TSMC sign wind power purchase agreement
Orsted and TSMC have signed a corporate power purchase agreement (CPPA) where the foundry house will offtake the full production from the former's 920MW offshore wind farm in central...
Thursday 9 July 2020
Artilux teaming up with TSMC
Artilux has announced that through its collaboration with TSMC, the company has developed its fully compliant all optical HDMI 2.1 IC solutions based on CMOS technology.
Tuesday 7 July 2020
IC analyzer MA-tek posts 20% revenue growth in 1H20
IC analysis and certification lab Material Analysis Technology (MA-tek) saw its revenue climb 20.2% from a year earlier to NT$1.42 billion (US$48.3 million) in the first half of 2020,...
Tuesday 7 July 2020
Major Taiwan fabless firms strive for more foundry support
Taiwan's first-tier IC design houses, such as MediaTek, have demanded more capacity support from their foundry partners recently, according to industry sources.
Monday 6 July 2020
Highlights of the day: TSMC eyeing supercomputer chips
TSMC has also developed InFO_SoW (system-on-wafer) technology mainly for processing supercomputing AI chips. Demand for such extremely costly chips may be limited, but TSMC looks...
Monday 6 July 2020
TSMC may commercialize InFO_SoW for supercomputer AI chips in two years
TSMC, after launching 3D SoIC backend service, has also developed InFO_SoW (system-on-wafer) technology mainly for processing supercomputing AI chips and is expected to enter commercial...
Monday 6 July 2020
TSMC fab tool suppliers see promising outlook
Taiwan-based semiconductor equipment suppliers engaged in TSMC's supply chain are set to be among the beneficiaries of the foundry house's advanced process capacity expansion with...
Monday 6 July 2020
TSMC to issue NT$13.9 billion bonds to fund capacity expansion
The board of directors of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has approved plans to issue NT$13.9 billion (US$471.7 million) in unsecured bonds to help purchase new...
Friday 3 July 2020
E&R sees wafer-level laser cutting equipment orders surge
Taiwan-based E&R Engineering has enjoyed a surge in wafer-level laser cutting equipment orders from major chipmakers recently and also begun investing in R&D of equipment...
Friday 3 July 2020
Xiaomi, MediaTek reportedly team up for custom smartphone chips
Chinese handset vendor Xiaomi reportedly will work more closely with MediaTek to jointly develop customized SoCs for 5G smartphones after having its Redmi 10X series adopt the chipmaker's...
Thursday 2 July 2020
Samsung reportedly to skip 4nm foundry process
Samsung Electronics has revised its foundry process roadmap, skipping 4nm and jumping directly to 3nm from 5nm, according to industry sources.
Wednesday 1 July 2020
ASML, TSMC, Intel tout EUV, advanced packaging at CSTIC 2020
Whenever Moore's Law has seemingly reached its physical limits, there have been always new tech innovations emerging to break the limits, with EUV process and advanced packaging technology...
Wednesday 1 July 2020
Backend firms expect chip shipments for new Xbox to surge in 3Q20
Backend houses are gearing up for shipments for Microsoft's upcoming Xbox Series game consoles slated to debut at the end of July, and expect shipments for the new consoles to peak...