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Friday 15 September 2017
ITRI joins TSMC supply chain with new liquid nanoparticle monitor
Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has tapped into the supply chain of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) with a new generation liquid nanoparticle...
Friday 15 September 2017
IC packager ASE reportedly enters Amazon supply chain
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has cut into the supply chain for Amazon's datacenter construction set to begin between 2017 and 2018, by providing 2.5D IC packaging services...
Thursday 14 September 2017
Gudeng obtains FOUP orders from China 12-inch foundries
Gudeng Precision Industrial has obtained front opening unified pod (FOUP) orders from a number of 12-inch foundries including United Semiconductor (Xiamen), Huali Microelectronics...
Wednesday 13 September 2017
SEMICON Taiwan 2017: Focus on IoT, AI, smart applications
The 22nd annual SEMICON Taiwan trade show has kicked off in Taipei, running from September 13-15, with this year's theme focusing on IoT, AI, smart manufacturing, smart transportation...
Wednesday 13 September 2017
TSMC starts equipment move-in at Nanjing plant
TSMC on September 12 held a ceremony to mark the start of equipment move-in at its new 12-inch wafer plant in Nanjing, China.
Wednesday 13 September 2017
ASML EUV equipment production to almost double in 2018
ASML has disclosed annual production of its extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography systems will increase to 20 units in 2018 from the current 12.
Tuesday 12 September 2017
Xilinx, ARM, Cadence and TSMC collaborating on CCIX test chip
Xilinx, ARM, Cadence Design Systems and TSMC have announced a collaboration to build the first CCIX (cache coherent interconnect for accelerators) test chip in TSMC 7nm FinFET process...
Monday 11 September 2017
TSMC revenues decline 2.54% on year in August
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reported consolidated revenues of NT$91.917 billion (US$3.06 billion) for August 2017, representing a 28.36% increase on month...
Friday 8 September 2017
TSMC August revenues increase 28%
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced August consolidated revenues increased 28.4% sequentially to NT$91.92 billion (US$3.06 billion).
Friday 8 September 2017
Ambiq Micro, TSMC team up to develop Huawei fitness wearables
Ambiq Micro announced recently that Huawei has selected the Apollo2 platform, built on TSMC's 40nm Near-Vt technology platform, to power its new line of lightweight fitness wearables...
Friday 8 September 2017
SPIL obtains packaging orders for AMD Vega 11 GPUs
AMD will continue to contract Globalfoundries to manufacture its next-generation Vega GPUs, and will have Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) as its major packager for the chips,...
Thursday 7 September 2017
TSMC clarifies report on antitrust investigation
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has responded to media reports indicating the company is facing EU and US antitrust investigations by saying it has not received...
Monday 4 September 2017
Upstream material suppliers in new iPhone supply chain to see strong growth
With Apple expected to launch its new iPhone soon, Taiwan players in the US vendor's smartphone supply chain are warming up to embrace a new round of business boom, with the upstream...
Wednesday 30 August 2017
Samsung seeking long-term supply contracts with wafer firms
Samsung Electronics is striving to sign long-term supply contracts with multiple wafer makers to ensure sufficient silicon wafer supplies for the manufacture of memory chips and logic...
Tuesday 29 August 2017
E&R Engineering shipping laser-cutting machines to Intel in small volume, sources say
Taiwan-based E&R Engineering has started shipping laser-cutting machines in small volume to Intel, according to market sources. The fab toolmaker is also about to obtain verification...