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Friday 16 December 2022
U-Best ready for HC film volume production
U-Best Innovative Technology (formerly U-Best Polymer Industry), a chemical materials supplier, has developed hard coat films for foldable smartphones and has already gone through...
Tuesday 13 December 2022
Taiwan firms expanding OLED DDI biz
Taiwan-based display driver IC suppliers including Novatek Microelectronics, Himax Technologies and Raydium Semiconductor are actively expanding their OLED DDI offerings, all eyeing...
Friday 9 December 2022
Global OLED Technology warns BOE Technology not to infringe on OLED patents
Global OLED Technology (GOT), LG Display's (LGD) subsidiary that owns and licenses OLED technology patents, sent warning to China-based panel maker BOE Technology against infringing...
Friday 2 December 2022
IC design houses may see mounting risk of inventory losses in 2023
More IC design houses could be forced to recognize inventory losses if macro headwinds last beyond the second quarter of 2023 and drive end clients to extend their conservative shipment...
Friday 25 November 2022
Samsung Display ranks first in 3Q22 shipments of mobile device-use OLED panels
Samsung Display (SDC) shipped 86.3 million OLED panels for smartphones and smart wearable devices globally in third-quarter 2022, taking a worldwide market share of 62.9%, down 5.9pp...
Thursday 24 November 2022
Auto chips still in robust demand with no oversupply concerns
Major automotive chip IDMs including Renesas and Onsemi reportedly have moved to reduce orders placed with testing houses, sparking concerns about whether demand for automotive chips,...
Tuesday 22 November 2022
OLED DDI design houses remain optimistic about demand
Although demand for OLED DDI (display driver ICs) in the fourth quarter of 2022 is short of the expectation made in early 2022, relevant IC design houses including Novatek Microelectronics...
Tuesday 15 November 2022
IC designers with parent support could better withstand headwinds
Vendors of consumer ICs are struggling against the bleakest-ever market sales, but those affiliated with major business groups or having good supply chain partners would more likely...
Friday 11 November 2022
FineMat to relocate metal mask production lines to China
Taiwan-based FineMat Applied Materials, a maker of common metal masks (CMM) needed for OLED panel production, plans to relocate its main CMM production lines from Taiwan to China...
Tuesday 8 November 2022
Fabless firms clearing inventories aggressively
Since the latter part of the third quarter, Taiwan-based IC design houses, including first-tier players, have become aggressive in clearing on-hand inventories by slashing orders...
Monday 7 November 2022
Apple supplier Epistar confident of demand for miniLED chips
LED epitaxial wafer and chipmaker Epistar, in response to the report that Apple may replace miniLED-backlit LCD panels with OLED panels for the iPad Pro to be launched in 2024, is...
Friday 4 November 2022
OSAT, suppliers cutting prices for DDIs to raise utilization
Taiwan's OSAT services providers and packaging materials suppliers are offering "more flexible" quotes for display driver ICs (DDIs) in a bid to raise their utilization rates, according...
Friday 4 November 2022
US can choke Chinese OLED production if tech war spills into the panel industry
Considering that the US has launched a tech war against China by prohibiting the exports of advanced semiconductors involving US-developed technologies and related manufacturing equipment...
Tuesday 4 October 2022
FineMat shifting focus away from OLED market
Taiwan-based FineMat Applied Materials, a maker of common metal masks (CMM) needed for OLED panel production, has diversified its offerings to offset the weakness in demand for OLED...
Friday 30 September 2022
Xiamen Tianma Display Technology begins to ship flexible OLED panels
China-based Xiamen Tianma Display Technology (Tianma Display) began to ship flexible OLED panels used in smartphones and wearable devices in August 2022, according to industry sour...