Qualcomm is believed to have struck a long-term deal with United Microelectronics (UMC) under which the pure-play foundry will provide capacity support for the chip vendor over six...
Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) has received commitments from eight of its customers for capacity demand for a six-year period, according to industry sources.
A recent fire that struck one of Renesas' plants in Japan may lead to a further tightening in the world's available production capacity for automotive chips, according to industry...
As 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...
Five big acquisition announcements and more than a dozen smaller deals in 2020 pushed the total value of M&A agreements in the year to an all-time high of US$118 billion, surpassing...
SEMI has forecast that 300mm fab investments will grow by 13% in 2020 to eclipse the previous record high set in 2018 and log another banner year for the semiconductor industry in...
Despite 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...
Globalfoundries has announced the next generation of its FDX platform, 22FDX+, designed to meet the ever-growing need for higher performance and ultra-low power requirements of connected...
Imec and Globalfoundries (GF) have jointly announced a hardware demonstration of a new artificial intelligence chip. Based on Imec's analog in memory computing (AiMC) architecture...
GlobalWafers 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...
Phoenix Silicon International (PSI) has disclosed plans to ramp up monthly capacity for 300mm silicon wafer reclaim to 300,000 pieces in the third quarter from the current 240,000...
TSMC has an over 50% of the global pure-play foundry market, and the establishment of its new US fab could pose a further threat to Samsung's foundry operations and Globalfoundries,...
China has stepped up the development of its homegrown silicon wafer sector as part of the country's ambitions to achieve self-sufficiency in chips. The National Silicon Industry Group...
