3107 news items tagged capacity
Highlights of the day: TSMC expanding 5nm capacity
Friday 26 February 2021TSMC is fast expanding capacity for 5nm process to meet strong demand from a host of heavyweight clients, including Apple, AMD and MediaTek. The foundry house's capacity for 5nm...
MediaTek wins more TSMC support to boost 5G chip shipments
Friday 26 February 2021MediaTek has obtained sufficient 6nm and 7nm process capacity at TSMC, which will allow the mobile SoC specialist to boost its 5G chip shipments in 2021, according to industry sour...
TSMC 5nm process capacity to top 120,000 wafers monthly in 2H21
Friday 26 February 2021TSMC is poised to scale up its 5nm process manufacturing capacity to 105,000 wafers monthly in the first half of 2021, up from 90,000 units in fourth-quarter 2020, with plans to further...
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...
Unimicron eyeing ABF substrate as major growth driver in 2021
Thursday 25 February 2021IC substrate and PCB maker Unimicron Technology expects ABF substrates to remain its major growth driver in 2021 and will maintain high capacity utilization for the product line throughout...
China MOSFET suppliers to raise prices again
Thursday 25 February 2021China-based power MOSFET and other power device suppliers have already raised their quotes by 10-15% recently amid tight foundry capacity, and will make another upward price adjustments,...
Chip shortage likely to persist through 2022, says Silicon Motion
Thursday 25 February 2021Foundry and backend capacity constraints resulting in a global shortage of semiconductors will likely persist through 2022, according to Silicon Motion Technology, a Taiwan-based...
Car PCB makers may see revenues hit by deferred shipments
Wednesday 24 February 2021Taiwan's automotive PCB makers may see short-term impacts on their revenues from deferred deliveries of shipment to car vendors who are forced to suspend production due to shortages...
Contract PCB drilling service: Q&A with Key Ware CEO Chen Po-ying
Wednesday 24 February 2021Taiwan suppliers of high-end IC substrates, HDI boards, rigid PCBs with high layer counts and flexible PCBs are expected to have another busy year in 2021 after benefiting from pandemic-induced...
Foundry, packaging materials in tight supply
Tuesday 23 February 2021The supply of foundry and packaging materials, such as photoresist and leadframes, has already fallen short of demand, prompting related distributors to raise prices, according to...
IC design houses with strong backing more capable of winning foundry support
Tuesday 23 February 2021Taiwan-based IC design houses backed by large-scale and well-established parent companies, such as LCD driver IC firms Fitipower Integrated Technology and Raydium Semiconductor, will...
IDMs may evaluate more outsourcing
Tuesday 23 February 2021IDM vendors may consider outsourcing more of their production starting 2022, with Taiwan-based contract chipmakers being among the beneficiaries, according to industry sources.
Highlights of the day: Qualcomm keen to secure production capacity support
Monday 22 February 2021Major chip vendors have been striving for support from production partners, and Qualcomm reportedly will even appoint...
Chipmakers placing extra orders for BT substrates amid tight supply
Monday 22 February 2021As supply of high-end BT substrates has turned tight in the first quarter of 2021, major chipmakers including Qualcomm and MediaTek are moving aggressively to secure more capacity...
Qualcomm gearing up to cement capacity support from Taiwan partners
Monday 22 February 2021Qualcomm has been gearing up to seek multiple supply sources for both silicon-based and III-V semiconductors amid increasingly tight capacity at the global IC value chain, and reportedly...
DRAM and flash memory supply to stay tight in 2H21, says Winbond
Monday 22 February 2021A rally in DRAM and flash memory prices will boost Winbond Electronics' memory business revenue in March and April, according to Pei-Ming Chen, president for the specialty DRAM and...
URE to expand PV module production capacity
Monday 22 February 2021United Renewable Energy (URE) has disclosed it will expand its PV module production capacity by over 500MWp in 2021 amid strong demand.
Kioxia, Western Digital announce 6th-gen 3D flash memory
Friday 19 February 2021Kioxia and Western Digital jointly announced they have developed their sixth-generation, 162-layer 3D flash memory technology.
MLCC material maker PDC sees order visibility extended for 5G applications
Friday 19 February 2021Prosperity Dielectrics Company (PDC), which mainly supplies MLCCs and related ceramic powders, has utilized over 90% of production capacity with clear order visibility extended to...
Flexium sees LCP antennas as growth driver in 2021
Thursday 18 February 2021Flexible PCB maker Flexium Interconnect has projected a double-digit growth for its 2021 revenues, driven by shipments of LCP antenna boards for smatphones.
Packaging quotes for MCU and other consumer ICs set to rise
Thursday 18 February 2021Packaging specialists, such as Greatek Electronics, plan to raise their quotes for MCU and other consumer IC products in the second quarter to reflect their tight capacities, according...
TSMC could set up fab in Europe
Thursday 18 February 2021TSMC could set up an advanced wafer fab in Europe, where demand for leading-edge chip fabrication is promising, according to industry observers.
Top-5 wafer capacity leaders raise share of global capacity to 54%, says IC Insights
Wednesday 17 February 2021The top-5 wafer capacity leaders saw their combined installed capacity represent 54% of total global wafer capacity in December 2020, according to IC Insights. In 2009, the top-10...
IC design houses see clients continue stockpiling
Wednesday 17 February 2021Taiwan-based IC design houses continue to see their clients make efforts to build up inventories, which may result in pressure on the supply chain, according to industry sources.
Eris sees diode capacity fully booked throughout 2Q21
Wednesday 17 February 2021Taiwan-based diode maker Eris Technology has landed orders enough to keep its production lines for consumer diodes, automotive diodes, and protective components running at full capacity...