1313 news items tagged 2016
Airoha to acquire IC Plus
Wednesday 30 December 2020Airoha Technology, a MediaTek subsidiary, will acquire all shares of fellow company IC Plus at NT$22 (US$0.78) per share, according to company filings with the Taiwan Stock Exchange...
GlobalWafers to raise spot quotes for silicon wafers
Tuesday 29 December 2020GlobalWafers has run all its production lines for 12-, 8- and 6-inch silicon wafers at full capacity, according to company chairperson Doris Hsu. The silicon wafer supplier plans...
TSMC reportedly plans capacity expansion at Nanjing fab
Monday 23 November 2020TSMC has decided to build new facilities at its 12-inch fab in Nanjing to satisfy growing demand from the foundry's local customers in China, according to a report by Taiwan's Central...
China to have 22% of foundry market in 2020, says IC Insights
Wednesday 14 October 2020Despite the COVID-19 shutdown of the Chinese economy earlier this year, China's share of the pure-play foundry market is forecast to be 22% in 2020, 17pp higher than it registered...
China IC design industry to generate over CNY350 billion in 2020, says Digitimes Research
Tuesday 1 September 2020China's IC design industry is forecast to generate more than CNY350 billion (US$51.1 billion) in sales in 2020, representing a CAGR of 22% from 2016 to 2020 - the timeframe of the...
GlobalWafers to expand 12-inch silicon wafer capacity in Taiwan
Wednesday 17 June 2020GlobalWafers has held a groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of subsidiary Taisil Electronic Materials, and will use offshore capital to fund the expansion, which is set to complete...
Transistor count trends continue to track with Moore's Law, says IC Insights
Monday 9 March 2020The primary yardstick by which the IC industry measures its technological performance and progress remains Moore's Law that states there is a doubling of the number of transistors...
Nanya, CXMT gearing up for 10nm-class chip production
Thursday 27 February 2020Nanya Technology and Changxin Memory Technologies (CXMT) are both gearing up to enter volume production of their 10nm-class DRAM chips in the second half of 2020.
Yangtze Memory gearing up for transition to 128-layer 3D NAND flash
Tuesday 21 January 2020Memory startup Yangtze Memory Technology (YMTC), in which China's state-owned Tsinghua Unigroup holds a controlling stake, has reiterated plans to transition directly from 64-layer...
TSMC Nanjing swings to quarterly profit
Tuesday 26 November 2019TSMC Nanjing Company has reported its first quarterly profit for the third quarter, which narrowed its losses to NT$1.41 billion (US$46.1 million) in the first three quarters of 2019...
TSMC, UMC see China-based fabs operate in the red in 1H19
Monday 2 September 2019Both Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics (UMC) saw losses from their 12-inch wafer fabs in China during the first half of 2019, while fellow...
CCL, IC substrate and flexible PCB demand to boom in 5G era
Monday 26 August 2019Chip and component demand for 5G related applications, including network equipment, and antennas for handsets and IoT devices, is set to grow robustly starting 2020. In the PCB industry...
GlobalWafers leads 8-inch silicon wafer market in Europe
Thursday 25 April 2019GlobalWafers' Novara plant in Italy dedicated to making 8-inch silicon wafers became the largest supplier of 8-inch silicon wafers in Europe in 2018, with a 24% market share, according...
SMIC to sell stake in LFoundry
Wednesday 3 April 2019LFoundry, a Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) company, has entered into a binding agreement with SMIC for the latter to sell all of its stakes in the former to Jiangsu...
DRAM market to shrink substantially in 2019
Thursday 28 March 2019Recent concerns over market conditions, coupled with a sharp downturn in average selling prices, will lead the DRAM market to reach just US$77 billion in 2019 - a 22% year-over-year...
Advances in logic IC process technology move forward
Friday 22 February 2019There is more variety than ever among the logic-oriented process technologies that companies offer, and derivative versions of each process generation between major nodes have become...
Flash memory remains primary target for semi capex spending, says IC Insights
Monday 14 January 2019The semiconductor industry is expected to allocate the largest portion of its capex spending for flash memory again in 2019, marking the third consecutive year that flash has led...
Samsung chip capex spending stays high
Friday 30 November 2018Samsung is expected to have the largest capex budget of any IC supplier again in 2018, according to IC Insights. After spending US$24.2 billion for semiconductor capex in 2017, Samsung...
Focus on stability: Q&A with Globalfoundries executives
Wednesday 21 November 2018Globalfoundries announced in August 2018 its decision to put 7nm FinFET R&D on hold indefinitely in a move to intensify the company's focus on delivering differentiated 14/12nm...
Nine of top-15 2018 semi suppliers forecast to post double-digit gains, says IC Insights
Tuesday 13 November 2018The world's top-15 semiconductor companies are forecast to see their combined sales climb 18% in 2018, according to IC Insights, which estimated the overall semiconductor industry...
UMC to buy back shares
Tuesday 6 November 2018Taiwan-based United Microelectronics (UMC) has announced plans to buy back common shares from the Taiwan stock market for the "interests" of its shareholders.
Arm expands DesignStart program for Linux embedded designs
Tuesday 23 October 2018Arm has expanded its DesignStart program to include the Cortex-A5 CPU, Arm's low-power and Linux-capable application processor, according to the processor IP vendor. Developers can...
TSMC to be only supplier of Apple A13 chips in 2019
Friday 12 October 2018Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is set to win all orders for A13 chips that Apple will reelase in 2019, extending its dominance in the pure-play foundry sector,...
Sigurd enjoys strong high-end chip probing demand
Tuesday 18 September 2018Strong high-end chip probing demand is prompting Sigurd Microelectronics to expand production capacity, according to the Taiwan-based company specializing in wafer probing and final...
Intel to outsource 14nm chipset production due to tight supply
Monday 10 September 2018Intel is encountering tight 14nm process production capacity in-house, and is looking to outsource part of its 14nm chipset production to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company...