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Tuesday 29 March 2022
Testing houses see customers turn cautious
Dedicated testing houses including Sigurd Microelectronics and King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) have seen their customers increasingly adopt a wait-and-see attitude towards order commitments...
Friday 25 March 2022
MediaTek sees macro factors challenging in 2022
Unfavorable macro factors including geopolitical tensions will be challenging MediaTek in 2022, but the company remains confident about its growth prospects under solid support from...
Tuesday 22 March 2022
SSD control IC shortage to persist through 2022
Tight foundry capacities and shortages of ABF substrates continue to cause solid-state drive (SSD) control IC supply constraints, according to sources at backend houses.
Monday 7 March 2022
OSATs slowing down wirebonding capacity expansions for 2H22
Taiwan's OSATs are slowing down their logic IC wirebonding capacity expansions as the visibility of orders for processing consumer ICs is still unclear beyond the second quarter of...
Monday 7 March 2022
PTI hit by cutback in orders from Kioxia
Memory backend specialist Powertech Technology (PTI) may see its revenue hit by a cutback in orders from Kioxia in the first half of 2022, but is still on track to post an at least...
Wednesday 23 February 2022
Intel's IDM 2.0 vision juggles chip cost and performance
It remains to be seen how Intel will materialize its IDM 2.0 growth vision, but the chipmaker will have to face a trade-off between production cost and chip performance in determining...
Wednesday 9 February 2022
Automotive CIS packaging capacity fully loaded
Automotive CMOS image sensor (CIS) packaging capacity at Taiwan-based OSATs such as Tong Hsing Electronic Industries and Xintec remains fully loaded, and they can easily carry out...
Wednesday 26 January 2022
With high revenue in 1Q22, PTI considers deals with Micron, SK Hynix
Backend house Powertech Technology (PTI) expects to post a double-digit on-year revenue surge in the first quarter of 2022 after posting record business results for 2021, and is optimistic...
Friday 21 January 2022
Wi-Fi 7 will spark demand for QFN packaging, burn-in testing
With chip vendors (including Broadcom, Intel, MediaTek, and Qualcomm) gearing up for the development of Wi-Fi 7 chip solutions, QFN packaging and burn-in testing demand will be ramping...
Thursday 6 January 2022
Taiwan OSAT, test interface vendors upbeat about demand for new processors
Taiwan-based OSATs and IC test interface solution providers are upbeat about demand for new processors unveiled by vendors including AMD and Nvidia for the next couple of years, according...
Monday 27 December 2021
PTI, Micron, Samsung see little impact of Xi'an lockdown on memory production
The ongoing lockdown of the Chinese city of Xi'an in response to a spike in Covid cases will little affect manufacturing operations at plants there operated by Powertech Technology...
Wednesday 24 November 2021
Metaverse applications to bring new opportunities for memory supply chain
Looming metaverse applications are expected to generate massive data drastically triggering storage demand, which will generate new business opportunities for memory vendors and backend...
Monday 22 November 2021
Major US chipmakers gearing up for 6nm Wi-Fi 7 SoCs
Leading Wi-Fi chipmakers Qualcomm, Broadcom and even Intel are keenly developing Wi-Fi 7 SoCs, and may have their chips manufactured at TSMC using 6N RF process, looking to meet the...
Wednesday 27 October 2021
PTI readies measures against SK Hynix-Intel NAND buyout deal
Memory and logic IC backend house Powertech Technology (PTI) expects its revenue performance to stay on the growth track in the fourth quarter of 2021 after posting record sales results...
Monday 25 October 2021
OSATs to see strong backend orders for car-use MCUs in 2022-2023
International IDMs are set to raise quotes for automotive MCUs in 2022, and their backend partners in Taiwan are all expected to sustain robust backend momentum through 2022-2023...