Backend houses expect orders for display driver ICs (DDI) to pick up soon, with their fab utilization rates likely to improve in the second quarter, according to industry sources.

Demand for OLED display driver ICs (DDI) has begun picking up, according to memory backend house ChipMOS Technologies, which expects its sales to recover gradually starting the second...

Taiwan's OSATs are expected to slightly cut packaging or testing quotes for 2023 to bolster their capacity utilization rates, with price ranges up for negotiation with clients to...

With Micron Technology cutting capex and scaling back output amid a gloomy outlook for its operations, other memory chipmakers are expected to follow suit. Such developments are welcomed...

China's largest memory maker Yangtz Memory Technologies (YMTC) will be deterred from entering mass production of its 232-layer 3D NAND flash and developing more advanced chips after...

Taiwan's OSAT services providers and packaging materials suppliers are offering "more flexible" quotes for display driver ICs (DDIs) in a bid to raise their utilization rates, according...

Taiwan-based memory backend service companies have become more cautious with their capex for 2023 as memory demand has decelerated since the third quarter of 2022, according to industry...

Display driver IC (DDI) backend specialists are finding their warehouses filled with "wafer bank" inventories from fabless chipmaker customers that are keeping their inventory at...

Memory makers such as Micron Technology and Kioxia are expected to see their business operations undermined by sharp declines in end-market demand for consumer electronics devices...

Taiwan's tape COF substrate suppliers JMC Electronics and Chipbond Technology are highly conservative about their business prospects for the second half of 2022 due mainly to sluggish...

Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has received an application submitted by ChipMOS Technologies to invest a total of NT$12.5 billion (US$416.7 million) in the backend house's...

Taiwan-based backend firms have seen capacity utilization rates for OLED display driver IC (DDI) testing slip recently, according to industry sources, noting that inventory adjustments...

Unlike ASE Technology and other first-tier OSATs who still see robust order momentum from their IDM customers, smaller-size players including Greatek Electronics, Lingsen Precision...

Sluggish sales of large-size panels and continuous uncertainties in TV terminal demand have continued to erode shipments of large-size display driver ICs (DDI), resulting in revenue...

Taiwan-based display driver IC (DDI) backend specialists ChipMOS Technologies and Chipbond Technology remain upbeat about their business prospects in the second quarter of 2022, despite...