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Thursday 11 January 2018
TSMC December revenues up on year
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reported consolidated revenues of NT$89.897 billion (US$3 billion) for December, slipping 3.5% sequentially but growing 15.1%...
Thursday 11 January 2018
IC analysis service suppliers IST, MA-tek see robust revenues in 2017
Taiwan's dedicated semiconductor materials analysis and IC debugging services providers Integrated Service Technology (IST) and Materials Analysis Technology (MA-tek) have reported...
Tuesday 9 January 2018
AMD, Nvidia releases of new GPUs to benefit Taiwan OSAT players
As GPU suppliers AMD and Nvidia showcase their prowess at CES 2018, back-end service providers, such as Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) and King Yuan Electronics, are expected...
Thursday 4 January 2018
TSMC to outpace Samsung in 7nm volume production in 2018
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is ready to enjoy a sure win over Samsung Electronics in the race of 7nm process volume production in 2018, as it has secured orders...
Wednesday 3 January 2018
MediaTek may return to flagship-smartphone chip market in 2H18
Taiwan-based IC design house MediaTek's Helio X series flagship smartphone chipsets are expected to stage a comeback in the second half of 2018 at the earliest to brace for the advent...
Tuesday 2 January 2018
China major AI chipmakers maintain partnerships with TSMC
China's major AI chipmakers, including HiSilicon, Cambricon Technologies, Horizon Robotics and DeePhi Tech, are expected to reap rich harvests in 2018 from their launch of various...
Tuesday 2 January 2018
TSMC lands short lead-time HPC chip orders from China, says paper
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reportedly landed short lead-time orders for HPC (high-performance computing) chips from China-based clients, according to a...
Thursday 28 December 2017
MediaTek aims to hike market share, profitability in 2018
MediaTek will focus on further improving its market share, gross margin and overall earnings in 2018 through continued investments in new technologies, including AI, 5G, NB-IoT, 802.11ax...
Wednesday 27 December 2017
HBM2 memory solutions gaining popularity
The popularity of HBM2 (second-generation high bandwidth memory) solutions has been increasing recently due to the adoption of such products by Nvidia's Tesla P100 accelerator and...
Friday 22 December 2017
Taiwan wafer foundry revenues to surge 7.8% sequentially in 4Q17
Taiwan wafer foundry revenues for the fourth quarter of 2017 are estimated to surge 7.8% sequentially and 9.3% on year to US$10.54 billion, with the growth mainly seen in revenues...
Wednesday 13 December 2017
TSMC still upbeat about HPC chips, says chairman
Clients' demand for HPC (high-speed computing) chips at TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) has remained strong without signs of ebbing, according to company chairman...
Wednesday 13 December 2017
Qualcomm, MediaTek yet to advance to 7nm node
Qualcomm has decided to continue adopting Samsung's 10nm process for fabricating its newly released Snapdragon 845 chipset for smartphones, instead of advancing to 7nm process node...
Tuesday 12 December 2017
Taiwan IC materials suppliers expect better revenue records in 2018
Taiwan's major semiconductor materials distributors such as Topco Scientific and Wah Lee Industrial have reported revenue increases in the first 11 months of 2017 and expect better...
Monday 11 December 2017
TSMC November revenues flat
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Compay (TSMC) has announced its consolidated revenues for November 2017 reached NT$93.15 billion (US$3.1 billion), a decrease of 1.4% from October...
Friday 8 December 2017
TSMC Nanjing fab to start volume production in May 2018
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) will see its 12-inch wafer fab in Nanjing, China start volume production in May 2018, more than one quarter ahead of its original...