Chang Wah Electromaterials (CWE) has signed a five-year syndicated loan agreement for NT$3 billion (US$94 million) with 12 local banks in Taiwan, according to the semiconductor materials...
Taiwanese IC design houses remain confident about AI PC-related chip shipments in 2024, despite an AI PC penetration rate of 5% at most for the year, according to industry sources.
The Taiwanese government decided to raise electricity prices by an average of about 10% starting in April, with industrial electricity prices up by nearly 14%, the third consecutive...
IC design company Weltrend Semiconductor expects its motor controller shipments to rise over 50% in 2024, propelled by robust thermal dissipation demand for AI servers.
Cadence, one of the global EDA giants, expressed optimism for India-based IC design houses to differentiate themselves from global fabless semiconductor firms by designing chips for...
IC distributor Zenitron believes that the market has rebounded and the company is targeting quarterly revenue growth throughout 2024 with support from IT and automotive product lin...
IC backend houses generally believe that the AI boom has kicked off a new growth cycle, with rising demand for advanced packaging set to fuel growth for testing service providers.
Taiwan's major IC distributors, including WPG Holdings, WT Microelectronics, Supreme Electronics, and Edom Technology, anticipate several significant trends for 2024 in the semiconductor...
The hot demand for AI chips and the trend for cloud AI tech differentiation attracted unexpected attention to Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) design services lately.
Taiwan-based Answer Technology (ANStek), which primarily distributes ICs for niche-market applications, has seen increased orders for 5G communication devices and good progress in...
Despite supply chain inventory levels returning to normal, fabless chipmakers and IC distributors are still uncertain about network IC market prospects for this year.
