Last update: Thursday 14 March 2013 [60 news items]
TSMC purchases US$4.5 billion worth of equipment in 2009
Jan 5, 11:54
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) spent more than NT$145 billion (US$4.57 billion) on machinery equipment in 2009, while rival United Microelectronics Corporation...
Motech selects Applied Materials technology for double printing of solar cells
Oct 21, 10:57
Applied Materials has announced that Motech Solar has installed and qualified an Applied Baccini back-end line for double printing applications at its volume production facility in...
Applied Materials, ITRI team up for 3D chip stack technology
Oct 15, 16:53
Applied Materials has announced its collaboration with the Taiwan government-backed Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) to accelerate the development and commercialization...
Applied inks 5-year contract to support PV module facility in China
Sep 23, 15:43
Applied Materials announced on September 22 that it has signed a five-year contract with ENN Solar Energy to support the China-based thin-film developer's photovoltaic (PV) module...
Stockwatch - Aug 19, 15:24
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced a total of 20 purchases of machinery equipment, worth NT$17.72 billion (US$537 million), since July 13.
SPP buys Aviza assets for MEMS expansion
Aug 18, 16:32
California-based semiconductor equipment supplier Aviza Technology, which in June filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, has inked a deal to sell assets to Sumitomo Precision Products (SPP)...
Jul 24, 15:02
United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) has been working closely with customers, including FPGA specialist Xilinx, to volume produce 45/40nm products at its 300mm (12-inch) fabs,...
Taiwan should implement aggressive renewable energy policy, says Applied chairman
Jun 8, 14:58
Taiwan should be more active in following the worldwide trend where leading economies are rushing to capitalize on renewable energy to create a green economy that will be accompanied...
AMEC obtains ruling in dispute with Applied
Jun 2, 16:46
Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment (AMEC) has obtained a ruling on a summary judgment motion it filed in its trade secret dispute with Applied Materials, according to the China-based...
Applied Materials optimistic about a-Si thin-film PV
Apr 28, 17:11
Declining polysilicon prices may impact demand for amorphous silicon (a-Si) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules, but Applied Materials is confident of the development of thin-film...
GET certifies Applied Materials SunFab thin-film PV line
Apr 20, 10:46
Green Energy Technology (GET), a Taiwan-based maker of solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafers and amorphous silicon (a-Si) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules, has certified its...
TSMC acquires equipment from Applied Materials
Stockwatch - Apr 14, 17:16
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced via a company filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) that the company spent NT$827 million (US$24.5 million) to...
Worldwide semi equipment spending down 32% in 2008, says Gartner
Apr 14, 14:35
Worldwide semiconductor capital equipment spending totaled US$30.7 billion in 2008, a 31.7% decline from the previous year, according to final results by Gartner. In major segments,...
Applied Materials wins thin-film court battle with Oerlikon
Apr 2, 16:34
Applied Materials has won a battle against European-based OC Oerlikon Balzers AG in a dispute over IP related to thin-film solar technology. In an oral decision delivered this week,...
TSMC recent equipment purchases contribute one-tenth to capex estimate for 2009
Apr 1, 11:55
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has recently spent a total of almost NT$5 billion (US$145 million) on five separate machinery equipment purchases. The amount already...
Applied Materials and Disco to jointly develop wafer thinning process for TSV solutions
Mar 31, 14:41
Applied Materials and Japan-based Disco have announced a joint effort to develop wafer thinning processes for fabricating through-silicon vias (TSVs) in 3-dimensional (3D) semicond...
TSMC announces equipment purchases worth NT$4 billion
Stockwatch - Mar 31, 10:10
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company(TSMC) has recently announced purchases of machinery equipment from Applied Materials Asia-Pacific, Dainippon Screen Manufacturing and KLA-Tencor...
TSMC buys equipment from Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron
Stockwatch - Mar 16, 11:45
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has recently announced the purchase of machinery equipment from Applied Materials Asia-Pacific and Tokyo Electron, totaling NT$1.02...
TSMC acquires equipment from Lam Research
Stockwatch - Feb 26, 16:45
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced an equipment purchase worth NT$587.09 million (US$16.86 million) from Lam Research, a supplier of semiconductor wafer...
Applied Materials looks to drive TSV adoption
Dec 2, 16:50
Applied Materials has announced that it is undertaking a major effort to enable the widespread adoption of through-silicon vias (TSVs), a rapidly-emerging approach for vertically...
Applied Materials introduces aerial imaging to boost lithography productivity
Dec 1, 10:54
Applied Materials has announced its Applied Aera2 for lithography system. Using the system's IntenCD technology in the fab, semiconductor manufacturers can improve wafer critical...
Applied Materials expects overall equipment spending to drop in 2009, but upbeat about PV market
Nov 14, 10:23
Oct 23, 01:10
Despite the rapid decline of oil prices and a slowdown in the semiconductor and FPD (flat-panel display) industries recently, global investment in solar energy has continued to build...
Applied wins multi-year solar service contract from Green Energy Technology
Aug 12, 12:26
Applied Materials has announced that it has signed a five-year service contract with Green Energy Technology (GET) of Taiwan to support GET's Applied SunFab thin film line for solar...
Applied Materials breaks ground for Taiwan manufacturing center expansion
Jul 23, 10:30
Applied Materials held a groundbreaking for an expansion project of its Tainan Manufacturing Center. This expansion, with a total investment estimated at around US$17 million, will...
Globalfoundries lands wafer start orders from China-based Rockchip
Bits + chips | 11h 56min ago
Everlight Electronics expects increases in revenue proportion of LED backlights, lighting in 2013
LED | Jun 18, 21:59
Prices of smartphone and tablet solutions to drop 10-20% in 2H13
Bits + chips | Jun 18, 21:55
NPC 2013 capex to focus on FC CSP substrates, says president
Bits + chips | Jun 18, 21:45
Samsung offers subsidies, Asustek cuts prices to promote tablet sales in Brazil, say local channels
IT + CE | Jun 18, 20:53
China market: Domestic TV panel supply falls far short of demand, says CVIA vice president
Displays | Jun 18, 19:58
Connector makers worried about price competition arising from Foxconn spinning off NWInG
Before Going to Press | Jun 18, 21:08
DRAM shortages to continue for 3 years, says Inotera executive
Before Going to Press | Jun 18, 20:56
Chin-Poon expanding share in global automobile board market
Before Going to Press | Jun 18, 20:16
Taiwan vendors, ODMs turn conservative about 2H13 notebook shipments
Before Going to Press | Jun 18, 20:04
Lite-On IT to start production of LED light bulbs in 3Q13
Before Going to Press | Jun 18, 19:50
Taiwan market: ViewSonic to launch Full HD projectors by end of 2013
Before Going to Press | Jun 18, 19:44
Foxconn to start production of 70-inch Ultra HD TVs in 1Q14
Before Going to Press | Jun 18, 19:43
China has no schedule for hiking customs duty on TV panels, says CVIA vice president
Before Going to Press | Jun 18, 19:42
JDI, CPT, Innolux see increased orders for large-size panels from smartphone vendors, say Taiwan makers
Before Going to Press | Jun 18, 19:37
Applied Producer InVia dielectric deposition system
Applied Materials has added to its line of 3D chip packaging solutions with the launch of its Applied Producer InVia dielectric deposition system. Using a proprietary CVD process,...
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Applied Materials has launched its Applied Reflexion GT system for advanced metal CMP applications. Key to the new system is its dual-mode architecture, enabling two wafers to be...
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Applied Materials has unveiled what it claims is the industry's first fully-integrated abatement and vacuum pumping solution for controlling emissions in the semiconductor fab. ...
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Applied Materials Solar Technology Center in China
Applied Materials has opened an advanced solar research and demonstration facility in Xian, China. The Solar Technology Center is comprised of laboratory and office buildings covering...
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Applied HCT Diamond Squarer for solar wafers
Applied Materials has introduced ts new HCT Diamond Squarer system, which can reduce the cost of squaring silicon ingots by up to one-third while offering at least twice the cutting...
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Applied Materials optimistic about a-Si thin-film PV
Declining polysilicon prices may impact demand for amorphous silicon (a-Si) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules, but Applied Materials is confident of the development of thin-film...
Despite the rapid decline of oil prices and a slowdown in the semiconductor and FPD (flat-panel display) industries recently, global investment in solar energy has continued to build...
- Chipbond ramping up testing capacity for advanced driver ICs
- Wintek to benefit from Google and Amazon touch panel orders
- First-tier players may release smartphones that adopt heat pipes by the end of the year
- Taiwan LED Lighting Industry Alliance to propose Taiwan-China common standards for LED lighting
- Panel supply shortage likely to affect second-tier handset shipments
- China smartphone shipments grow 117% on year in 1Q13, says IDC
- Kinsus sets 2013 capex at record NT$4.5-5 billion
- Taiwan market: Handset shipments in 1Q13 hit record, says IDC
- Asustek expects 10% sequential drop in 2Q13 notebook and tablet shipments
- Taiwan market: Taiwan Mobile to launch VoIP at M+
- Mixed-signal technology to dominate global chipset market: Q&A with Dialog Semiconductor CEO Jalal Bagherli
- CVIA: China to purchase 30 million TV panels from Taiwan makers
- Taiwan market: Tablet sales in 2013 to reach nearly 2 million units, says FET executive
- Taiwan makers see booming orders for smartphone tablet accessories
- Taiwan IC design houses reducing exposure in NAND flash controller market
- SPIL expanding capacity for high-end ICs
- OLED TVs to be similarly priced as LCD TVs by 2016, say observers
- Global output of LED light bulbs to reach 600 million units in 2013, says Epistar chairman
- Epistar to issue 250 million new shares for private placement
- Unity Opto profits double in 2012
- New Csun solar manufacturing facility in Turkey opens door for maker
- Digitimes Research: South Korea firms mixed on solar business developments
- AMD unveils upcoming server strategy and roadmap
- Connector maker UDE to benefit from games console orders
- Digitimes Research: China touch panel makers expand their influence in the market
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- Advantech Releases 6U CompactPCI Board with 4th Generation Intel Core i7 Processor
- Advantech to Support CompactPCI PlusIO and Serial Standards
- ABB to showcase leading-edge power distribution technologies at CIRED
- Fanless In-Vehicle Systems with Intel Core i7
- FIC partners with Cluster Wireless to deliver Intelligent M2M Solutions
- Embracing the New Generation Intel Atom Family with DDR3 Memory Support
- Got The Message? Ensuring efficient and reliable delivery of content across a mission critical digital signage network
- Emb' Store On-Demand Software Service for Embedded Computing
- Efficient Network Management for Digital Signage
- Design Benefits of the MI/O Extension Solution
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- IBM starts American job cuts, say reports (June 13) - NASDAQ.com
- NHK to air documentary on Taiwanese semiconductor giant (June 6) - Focus Taiwan news channel
- Slow global GDP growth weighs on IC market (May 29) - IC Insights
- Infineon ships security chips to Taiwan electronic passport program (May 23) - Company release
- Apple 'among largest tax avoiders in US' - Senate committee (May 21) - BBC News
- Weak eurozone growth hits euro (May 15) - The Financial Times
- German factory orders rise for second month (May 7) - Bloomberg
- Eurozone retail sales fall for second consecutive month (May 6) - BBC News
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- Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
- Cavendish Kinetics announces RF MEMS technology for improving wireless performance
- Solar trade dispute spreads to wine industry; gets personal
- Analogix eyes link between smartphones and HD displays
- Strong reaction from China, EU members over solar trade row
Dialog Semiconductor has managed to land solution orders from first-tier smartphone vendors in the...
Lose the switch, lose the loss: Cavendish Kinetics leverages MEMS for tunable RF components
Cavendish Kinetics recently announced the availability of production samples of its tunable RF capacitors...
Taiwan-based Chimei Group, once a major LCD panel maker, now focuses on providing upstream components...
Eight years ago, the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) defined the first carrier class networks and services...
- Smartphone and tablet industry: The view from Taiwan - May 2012
Taiwan-based companies have a long and successful history of involvement in the supply chain for mobile devices, which for the purposes of this article consist...
- Taiwan motherboard industry overview - May 2012
The year 2011 saw the motherboard industry reverse its trend of declining shipments year-on-year, to post a slight 0.2% growth. This upturn in fortunes was expected...
- Notebook market overview - Jun 2011
The notebook industry in 2010 experienced several major events that significantly changed the industry's ecosystem for the year and the industry is also believed...
- LCD TV overview - Jun 2011
Growth of the global LCD TV market was not as strong as expected in 2010 as the market continued to feel the aftershocks of the economic recession that had hit...
- 2H 2012 global TFT panel market forecast
Digitimes Research predicts there will be a total of 389 million large-sized TFT LCD panels shipped in 2H12, with 195 million in the third quarter and 194 million in the fourth quarter - with the total representing a 7.6% increase over the first half of this year.
- Trends and shipment forecast for 2H 2012 smartphone market
Smartphone shipments in 2010 and 2011 both enjoyed growth of more than 60%. Growth will decelerate in 2012 due to the high base, as well as a slowdown in consumer spending in Western Europe.
- Trends in Asia LED chip manufacturing industry
Asia is playing an ever more important role in upstream LED chip manufacturing. The region accounted for 80% of MOCVD demand in 2011 and will account for 90% in 2012, largely because Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and China are the major global centers for LED chip production.