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Thursday 13 June 2013
TSMC to post record earnings and sales for 2013, says Chang
Judging from the current order visibility, Morris Chang, chairman and CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), expects the foundry's performance in the second half...
Tuesday 11 June 2013
Digitimes Research: Mixed capex plans for major semiconductor firms in 2013
Intel, Samsung Electronics, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Texas Instruments (TI), Toshiba, Renesas Electronics, SK Hynix, and STMicroelectronics were among the...
Monday 10 June 2013
TSMC, UMC post revenue growth in May 2013
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics (UMC) have reported NT$51.79 billion (US$1.74 billion) and NT$10.86 billion in May sales, respectively,...
Thursday 6 June 2013
Fab equipment spending to soar in 2H13, says SEMI
Fab equipment spending for the second half of 2013 is expected to be much stronger with a 32% growth rate or US$18.5 billion compared to the first half of the year, according to SEMI...
Monday 3 June 2013
Digitimes Research: Samsung logic IC capex stays high in 2013
Samsung Electronics is expected to spend US$6 billion on its logic IC business in 2013, down from a record US$7 billion in 2012, according to Digitimes Research.
Friday 31 May 2013
Digitimes Research: Taiwan top foundries combined revenues to rise 15% in 2Q13
Taiwan's top-three IC foundries will see their combined revenues register sequential growth of 15.3% in the second quarter of 2013, compared to the 0.7% on-quarter increase posted...
Wednesday 29 May 2013
Xilinx, TSMC team up for 16nm FinFET FPGAs
Xilinx and TSMC have jointly announced that they are teaming up to create FPGAs built using 16nm FinFET process technology.
Tuesday 28 May 2013
LGE accelerates in-house mobile AP development
LG Electronics is set to develop its own mobile application processors, accelerating the in-house development of ARM-based chips for mobile devices.
Wednesday 22 May 2013
Hermes to see revenues grow higher than 10% sequentially in 2Q13
Hermes Microvision (HMI), which provides electron beam inspection tools and solutions for the production of semiconductors, is expected to see its revenues grow over 10% sequentially...
Monday 20 May 2013
TSMC presence in advance process market remains strong
A report has claimed that Samsung Electronics' combined production of chips using advanced 32/28nm process technologies accounted for roughly 50% of the global production of the same...
Wednesday 15 May 2013
Digitimes Research: Rising mobile device demand drives TSMC, UMC wafer shipment growth in 2Q13
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics (UMC) both saw their wafer shipments increase sequentially in April 2013, thanks to rising demand for...
Tuesday 14 May 2013
Chipset players queuing up for TSMC production capacity
International and domestic chipset vendors have begun to queue up at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in order to secure production capacity for 40nm, 28nm and more...
Friday 10 May 2013
TSMC to budget US$1.5 billion for R&D expenditure
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has unveiled plans to invest a record US$1.5 billion on research and development in 2013. The spending remains focused on maintaining...
Friday 10 May 2013
TSMC reiterates plans for 18-inch wafer manufacturing
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reiterated plans to build its first 450mm (18-inch) pilot production lines, which will offer FinFET transistor technology at...
Thursday 2 May 2013
TSMC reportedly to grab 100% of AP orders for 2014 model iPhone
Apple is expected to contract TSMC to manufacture all the application processors (APs) used in the 2014 model of its iPhone slated to launch in the second half of the year, industry...