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Wednesday 5 October 2022
Equipment supply and demand gap stabilizing for OSATs, IDMs: Q&A with K&S SVP Chan Pin Chong
Automotive chips and power devices continue to see uneven supplies, and Taiwan's leading OSATs including ASE Technology and international IDMs such as Infineon, Renesas, NXP, ST Microelectronics...
Tuesday 4 October 2022
US to announce new limits on chip technology exports to China
The Biden administration plans to announce new restrictions on China's access to US semiconductor technology, according to people with knowledge of the situation, an escalation of...
Monday 3 October 2022
Short chains, localized production trending: Q&A with Foxconn chairman Young-way Liu
Once short chains become the market norm, industry players will have to invest in setting up local supply chains worldwide. However, how to manage different operating units in different...
Monday 12 September 2022
US likely to expand tech export bans on China, but experts warn implications
A Reuters exclusive report quoted sources saying the Biden administration will broaden export curbs on US semiconductors used for artificial intelligence (AI) and chipmaking...
Wednesday 7 September 2022
Courage in difficult times
Acer chairman Jason has recently sounded an alarm based on Intel's financial results. Chen was once corporate vice president of sales and marketing at Intel, and later served as senior...
Tuesday 6 September 2022
Supply chain restructuring and resilience
In "The New Critical Era of Supply Chains Restructuring and Resilience Strengthening" forum hosted recently by DIGITIMES Asia, experts from IC distributors - WPG Holdings' chief marketing...
Tuesday 6 September 2022
Entering an age of vertical globalization: Q&A with geopolitical futurist Abishur Prakash
The fresh US export restrictions on chips to China and Russia seem to have pushed the decoupling of the semiconductor technology a step further. DIGITIMES Asia had an exclusive interview...
Friday 2 September 2022
Backend houses see limited impact from tightened US chip export rules to China
Taiwan-based IC packaging and testing houses expect new restrictions imposed by the US to cut China off from high-end artificial intelligence (AI) chips will have a limited impact...
Friday 2 September 2022
Fresh US chip export restrictions to curb China homegrown IC development
China's progress in developing its homegrown AI and HPC processor industry will be curbed by the US fresh restrictions on exports of advanced GPUs crucial for artificial intelligence...
Thursday 1 September 2022
Nvidia and AMD impacted as US restricts GPU sales to China
The US has once gain tightened the loop around China's semiconductor industry, and this time it is specifically targeting China's high-performance computing, especially machine learning...
Thursday 25 August 2022
More ban on semiconductor equipment to China accelerating tech decoupling
The US government has started to expand the ban on semiconductor equipment exports to China to include equipment under 14nm processing nodes and memory manufacturing tools in August,...
Wednesday 24 August 2022
Exclusive interview with HBS professor Willy Shih: Global supply chain resilience issues to watch out for in 2023 and beyond
As resilience has become as a critical keyword for global supply chain manufacturers, Harvard Business School professor Willy Shih, in a pre-event interview for the DIGITIMES Asia...
Monday 22 August 2022
China-Taiwan relations: Is alarmism justified?
On August 2-3, the US speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, visited Taiwan for 16 hours. It was a visit of seismic proportions along the Pacific Ring of Fire. Speaker...
Friday 19 August 2022
Samsung to be hit by tougher US-imposed China chip ban
With the US tightening restrictions on China's access to chipmaking gear, such a development will have a negative impact on Samsung Electronics and other major Korea-based chipmakers,...
Tuesday 16 August 2022
Is chip shortage ending? Fusion Worldwide sees rough waters at least for another quarter
During the peak of chip crunch, when big automotive manufacturers are securing long-term agreements with chip makers to keep their supply chain humming, those in critical need of...