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Tuesday 7 February 2023
Global semiconductor sales increase 3.2% in 2022 despite second-half slowdown
Worldwide semiconductor sales totaled US$573.5 billion in 2022, the highest-ever annual total and an increase of 3.2% compared to the 2021 total of US$555.9 billion, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). Sales slowed during the second half of the year, however.
Tuesday 7 February 2023
China revving up homegrown chipmaking equipment development
Among the growing ambiguity in the global environment, a number of well-developed semiconductor equipment manufacturers based in China have emerged, with some already capable of producing sub-28nm fab tools, according to industry sources.
Monday 6 February 2023
Nanya posts decreased January revenue
DRAM chipmaker Nanya Technology has reported revenue fell 66.8% on year and 6.2% sequentially to NT$2.25 billion (US$75.1 million) in January 2023.
Friday 3 February 2023
Montage Tech enters mass production of PCIe 5.0/CXL 2.0 retimer
China-based Montage Technology, dedicated to memory interface products and PCIe retimer chips, has recently kicked off volume production of its latest PCIe5.0/CXL 2.0 retimer, which adopts advanced signal conversion technology to boost signal integrity and increase the effective transmission distance of high-speed signals.
Friday 3 February 2023
Memory chip inventories continue to swell
Memory chipmakers including major ones have come under intense inventory pressure, prompting suppliers engaged in the industry supply chain to be cautious about shipment pull-ins from terminal device customers that may not take place until the fourth quarter of this year, according to industry sources.
Thursday 2 February 2023
Samsung and SK Hynix ease up on DRAM price discounts as inventory clearance slows
News from South Korea's semiconductor sector pointed out that Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have recently stopped a "bomb sale" that began back in the fourth quarter of 2022. To clear excess DRAM inventory, the two manufacturers have been previously selling at a price that's 40% lower than the average selling price (ASP). The sector interpreted the normalization of DRAM prices as a sign that inventory issues have been resolved for now.
Thursday 2 February 2023
DRAM spot prices continue to slide
DRAM spot prices have continued their downward trend in January 2023, as buyers from end markets remain cautious about procurement and order pull-ins, according to industry sources.
Wednesday 1 February 2023
Samsung sticks to non-artificial production cut despite poor memory sales
Samsung Electronics has reiterated its policy of non-artificial production cut and will keep its 2023 capex budget unchanged at the 2022 level, aiming to boost its cost competitiveness to counter poor semiconductor sales performance in the fourth quarter of the past year. It remains to be seen whether or not the policy can work well.
Wednesday 1 February 2023
Taiwan export orders decline in December
Taiwan-based makers received export orders totaling US$52.17 billion in December 2022, down 23.2% on year, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA).
Wednesday 1 February 2023
PTI warns of tough 1Q23
Powertech Technology (PTI) chairman DK Tsai has warned of tough market conditions that will be challenging the memory and logic IC backend house in the first quarter of 2023.
Wednesday 1 February 2023
Server DRAM prices to fall 20-25% in 1Q23, says TrendForce
Server DRAM prices are likely to drop 20-25% in the first quarter of 2023, as cloud service providers continue to slow down on server procurement, according to TrendForce.
Monday 30 January 2023
SK Hynix introduces LPDDR5T RAM at up to 9.6 Gbps
SK Hynix has developed what the company claims to be the world's fastest mobile DRAM, LPDDR5 Turbo (LPDDR5T), with sample deliveries kicking off.
Tuesday 24 January 2023
Opportunities and challenges for semiconductor industry in automotive applications (2)
The semiconductor industry can learn from its past development history for making changes needed to cope with the trends and phenomena of the automotive industry.
Friday 20 January 2023
Japan enforcing new industrial policy for semiconductor industry
The new breed of industrial policies formulated to rekindle its semiconductor industry is taking hold in Japan. The Japanese government is offering subsidies to TSMC to build a wafer foundry in Kumamoto, promoting collaboration between Japan and the US to develop advanced processes for fabricating chips below 2nm and supporting the establishment of the local foundry house, Rapidus.
Thursday 19 January 2023
Memory module vendor Team Group to return to growth track in 2023
Taiwan's memory module and SSD vendor Team Group is optimistic that its revenues will return to a growth track in 2023, expecting annual sales for the year to grow 23% on year to NT$8.3 billion (US$273.93 million) on increased shipments of large-capacity SSDs and datacenter-use memory modules.
Thursday 19 January 2023
Macronix starts mass production of 96-layer 3D NAND flash memory
ROM and NOR flash memory specialist Macronix International has started mass producing its in-house developed 96-layer 3D NAND flash memory, marking a milestone in the chipmaker's NAND business.
Thursday 19 January 2023
DDR5 penetration for servers to rise
This year will see a substantial rise in the adoption of DDR5 memory in data centers and other server applications.
Tuesday 17 January 2023
Chinese chip giant weighs IPOs, land sales to slash debt burden
Tsinghua Unigroup Co.'s new owners are exploring ways to stave off creditors after completing a $9 billion takeover, including industrial property sales and floating fast-growing business units such as a local rival to Qualcomm Inc.
Monday 16 January 2023
Samsung reportedly cutting NAND production
Samsung Electronics reportedly is quietly reducing NAND flash production by lowering capacity utilization for the chips to 90% in response to sluggish demand, after resisting doing so for a while, according to industry sources.
Friday 13 January 2023
South Korean makers urged to develop memory-based logic chips
To sustain their leaderships in the global memory market, South Korean memory makers have to step up the development of new-generation memory technology and memory-based logic chips, and should also drop the traditional academia-industry collaboration mode for talent cultivation, according to South Korean academic experts.
Friday 13 January 2023
Micron DDR5 server memory validated for 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors
Micron Technology announced that its DDR5 server memory portfolio for the data center is now fully validated on the 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor family. Micron DDR5 memory delivers up to twice the memory bandwidth over previous generations, which is essential to fueling the rapid growth of cores in today's data center processors, according to the memory chip vendor.
Wednesday 11 January 2023
Nanya swings to loss in 4Q22
DRAM maker Nanya Technology swung to net losses of NT$1.15 billion (US$37.8 million) in the fourth quarter of 2022 when revenue fell 27.8% on quarter. The results marked the company's first quarterly loss in 10 years.
Tuesday 10 January 2023
Micron launches 9400 NVMe SSD for data center workloads
Micron Technology has announced the Micron 9400 NVMe SSD is in volume production and immediately available from channel partners and to global OEM customers. The drive is designed to manage the most demanding data center workloads, particularly in artificial intelligence (AI) training, machine learning (ML) and high-performance computing (HPC) applications, the company said.
Tuesday 10 January 2023
SIA: Worldwide semiconductor revenues down 9.2% in November 2022
Global semiconductor industry sales in November 2022 declined 2.9% sequentially to reach US$45.5 billion, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), quoting data compiled by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization.
Tuesday 10 January 2023
PTI posts about flat revenue growth in 2022
Memory and logic IC backend specialist Powertech Technology (PTI) Group has reported revenue still edged up 0.16% on year to NT$83.93 billion (US$2.75 billion) in 2022, despite lackluster market sales of memory chips and consumer logic chips.
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