74 news items tagged ASIC
TSMC likely to see flat 2Q18 revenues, say reports
Monday 16 April 2018Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is expected to report flat sequential revenue growth for the second quarter with a possibility of a slight increase or decrease,...
Bitmain Ethereum ASIC miner to be released in July
Tuesday 10 April 2018ASIC supplier Bitmain has postponed shipments for its Ethereum ASIC miner, the Antminer E3, from April to mid- or late-July due to the circuit's weaker-than-expected performance,...
MediaTek announces complete 56G PAM4 SerDes, silicon-proven on 7nm for ASIC services
Tuesday 10 April 2018MediaTek has announced an addition to its ASIC lineup with a 56G SerDes IP chip available with silicon-proven 7nm FinFET process technology. MediaTek's 56G SerDes is a high-performance...
China firms making progress in AI chip development
Tuesday 3 April 2018China-based artificial intelligence (AI) chip developers including Hisilicon Semiconductor, Cambricon, DeePhi Tech, Horizon Robotics and Bitmain have been aggressively planning new...
Taiwan IC design houses vying for orders for ASIC
Friday 30 March 2018With more device vendors developing their chip solutions in-house, as well as China pushing for self-sufficiency in semiconductors, demand for custom ASIC chips has been growing substantially,...
Himax to fully acquire Emza
Friday 30 March 2018Himax technologies has decided to exercise its options to fully acquire Emza Visual Sense for an undisclosed sum, according to the Taiwan-based IC design house. The transaction is...
TSMC revenues to rebound in March
Friday 30 March 2018Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is expected to see its March revenues rebound to over NT$100 billion (US$3.43 billion), driven by a ramp-up of 16nm and 12nm chip...
IC designers gearing up to develop datacenter server chipsets
Wednesday 28 March 2018With global datacenter operators showing rampant demand for servers with faster, safer and more power-saving data transmission and processing performances, Taiwan leading IC designers...
IC designers poised to embrace robust orders for AI chipsets
Tuesday 27 March 2018Taiwan IC designers are poised to get a significant boost in overall output value in 2018 amid rampant AI (artificial intelligence) applications worldwide, as they expect robust AI...
Niching posts record gross margin in 4Q17
Tuesday 27 March 2018IC packaging material and tool distributor Niching Industrial saw its gross margin reach a record high of 23% in the fourth quarter of 2017. Gross margin for all of 2017 climbed to...
Bitmain rises as new China unicorn
Tuesday 27 March 2018China's dedicated mining ASIC supplier Bitmain has squeezed into the list of the nation's startup unicorns, and its quarter-by-quarter shipment growth of mining ASICs as well as its...
Foundry capacity in Taiwan, China to remain tight throughout 2018
Monday 26 March 2018Taiwan and international IC designers have advanced fabrication orders with foundry houses to early 2018 to support shipments in the traditional boom season in the second half, amid...
Samsung enhances 8-inch foundry offerings
Wednesday 21 March 2018Samsung Electronics has announced more value added 8-inch (200mm) technology solutions for its foundry customers. On top of its existing embedded flash memory (eFlash), power, display...
TSMC seeing tight capacity for cryptocurrency mining chips
Thursday 15 March 2018TSMC's 16nm and 12nm process production capacity has been tight in the first quarter of 2018 driven by strong demand for GPUs and ASICs for cryptocurrency mining, according to industry...
Advantest receives order for V93000 testers from China ASIC developer
Thursday 15 March 2018Semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest Corporation has received a volume-purchase order for its V93000 testers from a leading Chinese designer of application-specific ICs...
Nvidia wary of possible cryptocurrency demand drop
Tuesday 13 March 2018GPU demand from the cryptocurrency mining industry is showing signs of slowdown recently and Nvidia has started taking measures to minimize possible damage, according to some market...
Global Unichip February revenues increase
Tuesday 6 March 2018IC design service company Global Unichip has reported consolidated revenues for February 2018 increased 15.8% sequentially to NT$906 million (US$30.9 million).
China IC backend houses vying for orders for mining ASICs
Thursday 8 February 2018Major China-based OSAT companies including Jiangsu Changjiang Electronics Technology (JCET), Tongfu Microelectronics and Tianshui Huatian Technology are all gearing up to compete...
Faraday profits hit 5-year high in 2017
Wednesday 31 January 2018The sale of Faraday Technology's security control business boosted the Taiwan-based IC design service provider's profitability in 2017.
Samsung reportedly enters volume production for Bitcoin mining ASIC
Wednesday 31 January 2018Samsung has reportedly been contracted by a China-based firm to fabricate Bitcoin mining ASICs with volume production already kicking off in January.
Taiwan IC packagers to cash in on mining craze in 2018
Tuesday 30 January 2018Taiwan IC backend service providers including Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) and King Yuan Electronics (KYE), are upbeat about their...
TSMC lands big orders for mining ASICs from Bitmain
Tuesday 30 January 2018Taiwan semiconductor firms will see major revenue boosts from the global cryptocurrency mining craze in 2018, as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has landed sizable...
MediaTek likely to land Wi-Fi ASIC orders for HomePad, says paper
Monday 29 January 2018MediaTek is expected to land Wi-Fi ASIC orders for the next-generation HomePad devices to be launched by Apple in 2019, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN)...
Globalfoundries gearing up to tap lucrative automotive chip market
Thursday 28 December 2017Eyeing the explosive demand for automotive-use chips fueled by rapid development of electric vehicles, driverless cars and drones, Globalfoundries has created a brand-new automotive...
IC substrates distributor Niching upbeat about 2018 performance
Friday 15 December 2017Taiwan-based semiconductor packaging material and equipment distributor Niching Industrial is optimistic about its 2018 performance due to rising demand for memory IC substrates,...
- Samsung is developing ASIC chips for Halong Mining, distributor claims (Apr 11) - CCN
- Bitmain announces Ethereum ASIC miner, shipping mid-July (Apr 3) - Tom's Hardware Guide
- Socle tapes out 28nm ASIC design at Globalfoundries (July 10) - Company release
- Uniquify becomes TSMC DCA partner (May 22) - Market Wire
- IBM, Mosaid enter into patent license deal (Dec 16) - Company release
- Syndiant intros embeddable display controller ASIC for pico projectors (Jun 28) - Company release
- Xilinx unveils new device families sharing unified 28nm architecture roadmap (Jun 21) - EETimesUK
- Altera shipping Stratix IV FPGAs on 40nm (Jun 14) - Company release
- STMicroelectronics announces 32nm ASIC platform for network applications (May 25) - Company release
- Start-up releases uber-fast, efficient enterprise-class SSDs (Sep 14) - Computerworld