MLCC manufacturer Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. stated that demand for components in smartphones is recovering, and there is also expected growth in demand related to automotive...
Amid sluggish iPhone sales, Samsung Electronics and Chinese smartphone brands have begun to take advantage of this gap and expand their inventory of smartphones and OLEDs to seize...
In the dynamic realm of AI, TSMC has secured the vast majority of customer orders, and foundry quotes now surpassing US$10,000 per wafer are primarily centered on the lucrative process...
After the memory market, led by DRAM, began to rebound, NAND Flash has also entered the final stages of its downturn. Customer inventories have been consumed, and with the growth...
As NAND Flash prices gradually rebound, Samsung Electronics has also begun to increase production, with reports indicating that the utilization rate of its Xi'an factory in China...
With memory chipmakers ready to scale up output, industry sources indicated that backend houses are optimistic about orders from the memory sector beginning in the second quarter...
US-sanctioned SMIC reported its first sales growth in four quarters. Its profit halved amid a semiconductor downturn, with utilization rates remaining low.
Win Semiconductors, a GaAs foundry, saw its fab utilization rates rise to 60% on average in the fourth quarter of 2023, up from 50% in the previous quarter, thanks to replenishment...
TSMC's fab capacity utilization rates will increase across the board in the first quarter of 2024, according to sources at semiconductor equipment companies.
China's pure-play IC foundry industry is expected to resume growth in 2024, with utilization rates of 90% for 8-inch foundries and 78% for 12-inch foundries, according to ICWise,...
After production cuts by display makers starting in the third quarter, the utilization rate has dropped to about 70% and is expected to fall to about 60%, if not lower, in the first...
HannStar, a Taiwan-based mid- to small-size TFT-LCD panel manufacturer, is seeing its operating rate rebound in the fourth quarter. The company is expecting operating rate of 80–90%...
China-based SMIC reported a worsened performance across the board in its quarterly results, signaling a recovery that may come later in the semiconductor industry. SMIC's capital...
