987 news items tagged automotive
Everlight reportedly working with Hella to develop matrix LED automotive headlights
Monday 19 August 2019LED packaging service provider Everlight Electronics reportedly has teamed up with Germany-based Hella KGaA Hueck to develop matrix LED automotive headlights, with production to begin...
Backend firm Xintec focuses more on high-profit CIS applications
Friday 16 August 2019CMOS image sensor (CIS) packaging specialist Xintec has put increased focus on high-profit segments of healthcare, industrial control and automotive CIS applications, and expects...
Auto-use HDI PCB orders picking up on 5G commercialization
Friday 16 August 2019HDI PCB orders for automotive applications have picked up recently, and major makers Tripod Technology and Chin Poon Industrial are moving to increase their production ratio for such...
Win Semi, Xintec and ShunSin ramping up shipments for 3D sensing components
Friday 16 August 2019GaAs foundry Win Semiconductors, and backend houses Xintec and ShunSin Technology have started ramping up shipments for structured light 3D sensing components in the third quarter...
MCU market to regain growth after 2019 slump, says IC Insights
Thursday 15 August 2019After reaching record-high sales in the last two years, the microcontroller (MCU) market slid lower in the first half of 2019 because of overall weakness in electronic systems, a...
HannStar Display reports profit for 2Q19
Thursday 8 August 2019LCD panel maker HannStar Display has reported net profit of NT$305 million (US$9.73 million) for the second quarter of 2019, up 66.67% on quarter but down 62.9% on year. EPS for the...
DRAM expected to remain largest IC market despite 38% sales decline, says IC Insights
Friday 2 August 2019Despite a 38% sales decline expected this year, the DRAM market is forecast to remain the largest of all IC product categories again in 2019 with sales reaching US$62 billion, down...
Unitech profit hikes in 2Q19
Friday 2 August 2019PCB manufacturer Unitech Printed Circuit Board has reported net profit hiked 147% sequentially and 423% from a year earlier to NT$505 million (US$16.1 million) in the second quarter...
JCET kicks off 12-inch wafer bumping production in S Korea
Wednesday 31 July 2019Jiangsu Changjiang Electronics Technology (JCET), the largest China-based IC backend service provider, has announced that volume production is kicking off at its new 12-inch wafer...
Taiwan passive components makers actively moving to develop 5G RF, antenna products
Friday 19 July 2019Lackluster terminal market demand has prompted Taiwan's leading passive components makers Yageo and Walsin Technology to step up implementing new development roadmaps for the next...
TSMC expects 18% revenue increase in 3Q19
Thursday 18 July 2019Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) expects to post consolidated revenues of between US$9.1 billion and US$9.2 billion in the third quarter of 2019, up about 18% sequentially...
Largan to end automotive lens module business, says report
Thursday 18 July 2019Largan Precision has decided to end development and production of automotive lens modules it has undertaken for over five years, according to Economic Daily News.
PCB maker Dynamic denies report it will sell Taiwan plant
Wednesday 17 July 2019Rigid-flexible PCB maker Dynamic Electronics has dismissed a recent Chinese-language report indicating the company plans to sell its factory site in Taiwan to a fellow Taiwan-based...
Chroma, Altair team up for electric vehicle testing
Wednesday 17 July 2019Inspection equipment specialist Chroma ATE has signed a strategic cooperation MoU with Altair Engineering, under which the pair will work together to jointly develop tools for electric...
Taiwan backend houses to see demand for MEMS sensors surge
Monday 15 July 2019ASE Technology Holding, King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) and Lingsen Precision Industries are among the Taiwan-based backend houses looking to benefit from robust demand for MEMS sensors...
Orders for TWS earbuds filling Unitech rigid-flex PCB capacity
Wednesday 10 July 2019Taiwan-based Unitech Printed Circuit Board has utilized up to 80% of its available rigid-flex PCB manufacturing capacity to fulfill orders for TWS (true wireless stereo) earbuds including...
FPCB makers to ramp up shipments for new iPhones in 3Q19
Wednesday 10 July 2019Taiwan-based flexible PCB makers, after ending the first half of 2019 with lower revenues than a year earlier, are expected to significantly ramp up shipments in the traditional peak...
Cadence tools certified for Samsung 5LPE process
Wednesday 10 July 2019Cadence Design Systems has announced that its digital full flow has achieved certification for the Samsung Foundry 5nm low-power early (5LPE) process with extreme ultraviolet (EUV)...
Taiwan chipmakers gearing up for 3D sensor market boom
Tuesday 9 July 2019Foundries including Win Semiconductors and Advanced Wireless Semiconductor (AWSC), epitaxial wafer supplier Visual Photonics Epitaxy (VPEC), fabless chipmaker Himax Technologies,...
CCL maker Iteq optimistic about 2H19 on strong 5G network demand
Monday 8 July 2019Taiwan-based CCL (copper clad laminate) supplier Iteq is optimistic about its revenue performance for the second half of 2019, driven by growing demand from suppliers of 5G network...
Chilisin optimistic about 2H19
Friday 5 July 2019Chilisin Electronics has reported consolidated revenues of NT$7.71 billion (US$248.3 million) for the first half of 2019, up 4.5% on year. The passive component vendor is optimistic...
Diode maker Eris posts revenue growth in 2Q19
Thursday 4 July 2019Diode supplier Eris Technology, which has put increased focus on automotive electronics applications, has reported revenues for the second quarter of 2019 increased 12.6% sequentially...
Foxconn set to build 12-inch wafer fab in 2020 as IDM
Wednesday 3 July 2019Foxconn Technology Group is likely to kick off construction of a 12-inch wafer fab in 2020 in Zhuhai, southern China in cooperation with the city government there, and will operate...
Innolux remains upbeat about 2019
Tuesday 2 July 2019Flat panel maker Innolux remains upbeat about its business prospects for 2019 as its capacity for small- to medium-size applications has been fully booked to year-end, and the company...
WPG positive about IC demand for 5G, AI and automotive
Monday 1 July 2019WPG, Asia's largest IC distributor, has expressed optimism about semiconductor demand for 5G, IoT, automotive and industrial applications this year despite a number of negative macro...
- Japan's Nissan to double global job cuts to over 10,000: source (Jul 24) - Reuters (via Yahoo! News)
- Tesla Gigafactory 3 will be up and building cars by the end of the year, report says (Jul 17) - CNET
- Audi first carmaker to join SEMI (May 28) - SEMI
- Renesas to partially halt chip production for two months on China slowdown (Mar 6) - Reuters
- Jaguar Land Rover set to cut thousands of jobs in new year (Dec 15, 2018) - The Financial Times
- Infineon strengthens collaboration with Denso (Nov 26, 2018) - Company release
- Murata expects ceramic parts shortages to last another 2 years (Oct 16, 2018) - Reuters
- Samsung Electro-Mechanics to build MLCC plant in China (Sep 17, 2018) - The Korea Times
- Renesas is considering an acquisition of US chipmaker IDT (Aug 31, 2018) - Bloomberg
- Infineon is said to have approached STMicro for takeover (Aug 1, 2018) - Bloomberg