124 news items tagged Singapore
TSMC ranks in top-10 for capacity in main wafer sizes
Friday 26 February 2021As of December 2020, only TSMC was among the wafer capacity leaders in each of the main wafer size categories ranked by IC Insights. The Taiwan-based foundry had the most 200mm wafer...
IC designers brace for insufficient foundry support throughout 2021
Wednesday 3 February 2021Taiwan's IC design houses expect their book-to-bill ratios to stay well above 1.0 throughout 2021, thanks to persistently tight foundry capacity undermining their shipment fulfillments...
VIS to disclose details about new acquisition in 1Q21
Tuesday 5 January 2021Eight-inch foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) is expected to announce details regarding a new acquisition later in the first quarter of 2021, according to market so...
Understanding what customers really need: Q&A with AImazing founder Jun Ting
Thursday 24 December 2020AImazing, founded in 2015, was groomed by Taiwan-based accelerator AppWorks. AImazing, which set up its headuqarters in Singapore and R&D base in Taiwan in 2017, was about to...
Zoom to expand presence in Singapore
Wednesday 23 December 2020Zoom Video Communications has announced that it will expand its presence in Singapore by opening a new research and development center.
Vietnam sees FinTech boom
Friday 11 December 2020The number of FinTech startups in Vietnam has almost tripled from 44 to 121 between 2017 and 2020, with 31% of them operating in payments, according to a report released by Fintech...
IPO activity remains strong in Southeast Asia
Friday 11 December 2020Despite the pandemic and US-China trade tensions, Southeast Asian capital markets have remained resilient, with local IPO activity from January up to mid October 2020 reaching pre-pandemic...
Micron ships 176-layer 3D NAND flash memory
Tuesday 10 November 2020Micron Technology has begun volume shipments of what the company claims is the world's first 176-layer 3D NAND flash memory.
GF, Soitec announce RF-SOI wafer supply agreement
Friday 6 November 2020Globalfoundries and Soitec have announced a multi-year supply agreement for 300mm radio frequency silicon-on-insulator (RF-SOI) wafers.
Second-tier foundries eyeing bigger share in 8-inch foundry market
Friday 6 November 2020With 8-inch wafer fabrication demand rising rapidly for chips including ultra-thin fingerprint sensors, power management ICs, MOSFET chips and display driver ICs, second-tier foundries...
Component shortages continue to disrupt Acer Chromebook shipments
Thursday 29 October 2020Component shortages continue to disrupt Acer's Chromebook shipments, which can fulfill only 30% of customer orders, with shipments for the remainders having to be deferred, according...
Eight-inch fab capacity to stay tight in 2021
Thursday 13 August 2020Eight-inch fab capacity will remain tight until 2021, due mainly to strong demand for display driver ICs and power management chips, according to industry sources.
VIS sees 8-inch fab capacity fall short of demand
Thursday 6 August 2020Specialty IC foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS), which runs only 8-inch wafer fabrication lines, has already seen its supply fall short of demand with order visibility...
Touch Cloud AI-based image recognition solution expands into Singapore through partnership with WPI and Intel
Tuesday 9 June 2020Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a key operation strategy across different industries. With the wide-ranging possibilities of AI application, enterprises have difficulty finding...
Circles.Life expanding mobile services in Taiwan
Thursday 14 May 2020Having made its debut in the Taiwan market in mid-2019, Singapore-based digital-based telecom service provider Circles.Life is ready to offer new mobile tariff plans and new services...
Components and labor shortages continue to haunt server supply chain
Thursday 14 May 2020Despite clients' strong short lead-time orders, the server supply chain is currently facing shortages of both components and labor, hindering their shipments in the second quarter,...
VIS to see revenue hit another record high in 2Q20
Wednesday 29 April 2020Specialty IC foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) expects to post revenue growth of 2-7% sequentially in the second quarter, thanks to robust demand for power management...
VIS posts record 1Q20 revenues
Friday 10 April 2020Specialty IC foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) has reported record revenues of NT$7.84 billion (US$260.9 million) for the first quarter of 2020, up 13.6% on year...
VIS expects coronavirus impact to be short-lived
Monday 24 February 2020Eight-inch foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) has seen clear order visibility through the end of March, with no substantial shifts in customer orders despite the ongoing...
Cable maker BizLink set to fully acquire Singapore peer
Wednesday 19 February 2020Taiwan-based electrical cable maker BizLink Holding has decided to fully acquire its Singapore peer Speedy Industrial Supplies for SGD65 million (US$47 million), bolstering its production...
VIS to scale up output in 2020
Friday 3 January 2020Eight-inch foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) expects its overall production capacity this year to grow over 15%, thanks to the completion of its acquisition of Globalfoundries'...
Brinno to adjust OBM channels in US, Japan, Singapore
Monday 9 December 2019Time-lapse camera maker Brinno has disclosed it will adjust OBM (own brand manufacturing) sales agent networks in the US, Japan and Singapore by enhancing product education, after-sale...
Delta Electronics to cooperate with JTC to set up Industry 4.0 ecosystem in Singapore
Wednesday 23 October 2019Power supply maker and energy management solution provider Delta Electronics has disclosed its subsidiary Delta Electronics International (Singapore) will sign an MoU with Singaporean...
VIS expects revenue surge in 2020
Tuesday 22 October 2019Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) will see its revenues rise sharply in 2020, thanks mainly to its acquisition of Globalfoundries' 8-inch fab in Singapore, according to Fang...
BitoEX to showcase solutions at FinTech Festival 2019
Monday 21 October 2019Cryptocurrency exchange platform BitoEX will participate at FinTech Festival 2019 in Singapore from November 11-15 along with another 13 FinTech solution developers, all led by Taiwan-based...
- Globalfoundries pours US$1.4b into fab expansion (Mar 4) - The Star Online
- German chipmaker Infineon to make Singapore its first global hub to embed AI in all job roles (Dec 2) - The Straits Times
- Singapore's economy is set to rebound in 2021 as third-quarter contraction slows (Nov 23) - CNBC
- Singapore looks to woo global tech execs with special visa (Nov 12) - Reuters
- Singapore sees third straight quarterly GDP contraction, but signs point to recovery (Oct 14) - South China Morning Post
- Singapore says it'll start paying people to work out with Apple's smartwatch (Sep 17) - CNN