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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...
Thursday 30 November 2017
Cleanroom constructor UIS seeing orders swell, says report
Taiwan-based cleanroom maker United Information Systems (UIS) has seen its backlog of orders reach NT$17.67 billion (US$588.92 million), according to a report by Taiwan's Central...
Thursday 30 November 2017
Coopetition and coexistence in IC industry: Q&A with ASE COO Wu Tien-yu
The global semiconductor industry is experiencing faster quantitative and qualitative changes along with the increasingly fierce coopetition among wafer foundry, IDM (integrated advanced...
Wednesday 29 November 2017
Downstream players scrambling to build up inventories amid tight wafer supply
The semiconductor supply chain - especially chip vendors - as well as downstream distribution channels and end-market customers, are rushing to pile up inventories by the end of 2017,...
Friday 24 November 2017
Taiwan market: Huawei launches Mate 10 series smartphones
Huawei has launched its Mate 10 and Mate 10 Pro smartphones in the Taiwan market with the availability to begin on November 28. The Mate 10 carries a price tag of NT$20,900 (US$697),...
Thursday 23 November 2017
Global Unichip opens new office in Nanjing
Taiwan-based Global Unichip, a fabless ASIC design house, has announced the opening of a new branch office in Nanjing, China where its major foundry partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing...