306 news items tagged 12-inch fab
SPIL to invest US$25 million in China
Tuesday 15 August 2017Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) has announced plans to invest indirectly a total of US$25 million in its newly-established wholly-owned subsidiary in China. Named Siliconware...
Commentary: Can Samsung Foundry unseat TSMC?
Thursday 3 August 2017Samsung Foundry has unveiled an aggressive sub-10nm roadmap that scales down to 4nm, and claimed it is looking to unseat United Microelectronics (UMC) as the world's second-largest...
Shanghai Huahong to build 12-inch fab in Wuxi
Wednesday 2 August 2017Shanghai Huahong Group on August 2 struck a deal with the national China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund and the city government of Wuxi to set up a new 12-inch wafer...
Nanya mulls developing 10nm DRAM technology in-house
Wednesday 2 August 2017Nanya Technology has licensed 1x and 1y DRAM technologies from Micron Technology, and is mulling developing a 10nm process in-house, according to the Taiwan-based DRAM manufacturer...
Winbond to spend NT$6.28 billion on equipment
Thursday 27 July 2017Taiwan-based Winbond Electronics, a provider of specialty DRAM and flash memory, has announced plans to budget an additional capex of NT$6.28 billion (US$207.7 million) for buying...
UMC planning 28HPC, 22ULP processes
Thursday 27 July 2017United Microelectronics (UMC) is looking to expand its 28nm process offering by launching 28nm HPC and 28nm HPC Plus nodes, which will become available in 2018. The foundry also plans...
NOR flash supply to remain tight in 2018, says Macronix president
Monday 24 July 2017Supply of NOR flash memory is expected to remain tight in 2018, as demand will continue to outpace supply, according to Macronix International president CY Lu.
Macronix to expand 12-inch fab capacity; 2Q17 profits surge
Monday 24 July 2017Taiwan-based Macronix International, a manufacturer of mask ROM and NOR flash memory, has disclosed plans to invest a total of NT$1.79 billion (US$58.9 million) to expand its 12-inch...
FD-SOI a promising technology: Q&A with Globalfoundries CEO Sanjay Jha
Wednesday 19 July 2017Globalfoundries' fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator FD-SOI process technology targeted at Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and Big Data applications has started...
Taiwan foundries to see 8-inch fabs run at full utilization till October
Thursday 6 July 2017Taiwan-based pure-play foundries including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), United Microelectronics (UMC) and Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) will see...
About half of wafers produced at Micron Taiwan fab scrapped, says report
Wednesday 5 July 2017A Taiwan-based DRAM foundry owned by Micron Technology, which was formerly Inotera Memories, recently scrapped half of the wafers produced at its 12-inch fab due to problems associated...
Globalfoundries CEO predicts a golden decade for semiconductors
Monday 3 July 2017The semiconductor industry will enter a golden age in the next decade, driven by robust chip and memory demand for ultra-large data centers and artificial intelligence (AI) applications,...
China foundries striving for more dummy wafer supplies
Monday 26 June 2017China-based logic IC and memory foundries including Nexchip Semiconductor and Rui-Li (transliterated from Chinese) Integrated Circuit have offered 20% higher prices than what their...
NOR flash prices to rise 20% in 3Q17, says DRAMeXchange
Thursday 22 June 2017Increasing demand for AMOLED panels from brand-name smartphone vendors and the industry's rising output for TDDI (touch with display driver) solutions have propelled the NOR flash...
Powerchip to restart NOR flash manufacturing
Tuesday 20 June 2017Powerchip Technology has restarted its NOR flash production line amid tight supply of the memory.
Winbond to expand 12-inch fab capacity
Wednesday 14 June 2017Winbond Electronics plans to expand its 12-inch fab capacity to 48,000 wafers per month by the end of 2017 from the current 44,000 units, according to the memory maker. The monthly...
TSMC to start equipment move-in at Nanjing plant in September
Tuesday 30 May 2017Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) new 12-inch plant in Nanjing, China will be ready for equipment move-in in September 2017, according to the Taiwan-based foundry...
Winbond planning new 12-inch fab
Tuesday 2 May 2017Specialty DRAM and NOR flash memory maker Winbond Electronics is planning a new 12-inch wafer plant which will be located in Tainan, southern Taiwan or Singapore.
Micron talks about its integrated global operations
Wednesday 26 April 2017Micron Technology has been actively allocating its global resources to enhance its DRAM and NAND flash product lines, according to Wayne Allan, VP of global manufacturing at the US-based...
Ardentec breaks ground for new plant in Nanjing
Tuesday 25 April 2017Taiwan-based Ardentec, which specializes in testing services for logic and memory chips, has recently broken ground for a new plant in Nanjing, China where Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing...
Silicon wafer suppliers seeking long-term contracts
Tuesday 25 April 2017Silicon wafer suppliers have advised their semiconductor customers to sign long-term contracts amid tight supply, according to industry sources.
Several China 12-inch fabs put construction on hold
Friday 21 April 2017Several 12-inch fab projects implemented by China-based emerging chipmakers have been put on hold raising speculation about the country's overambitious plans to revamp the local chipmaking...
Powerchip JV fab in China ready for trial production in June
Friday 7 April 2017Powerchip Technology's joint venture fab in Hefei, China will be ready for trial production in June 2017, according to Frank Huang, CEO for the Taiwan-based pure-play foundry.
China semi equipment industry working hard to play catch-up
Tuesday 21 March 2017It is hard for China-based semiconductor equipment suppliers to catch up with their bigger international peers in terms of technology, according to Zhao Jinrong, CEO for Naura Technology...
Gudeng seeing robust 12-inch fab equipment orders from China
Monday 20 March 2017Taiwan-based Gudeng Precision Industrial, a semiconductor front-end equipment manufacturer specializing in mask solution products and wafer handling equipment, has enjoyed a pull-in...