69 news items tagged IPO
China moving to prevent blind investment in third-generation semiconductors
Monday 28 December 2020China plans to invest big to build its homegrown third-generation compound semiconductors sector, but is also moving to prevent blind investments by Chinese players, asking them to...
Longsys preps for IPO
Thursday 24 December 2020Memory module firm Longsys Electronics has filed an application for its A-shares IPO and expects to trade on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE).
Kioxia postpones IPO
Tuesday 29 September 2020Kioxia has decided to postpone its initial public offering (IPO) due to market volatility. The deferral of the IPO may affect the flash vendor's capacity expansion project, according...
Taiwan 1H20 patent applications down
Wednesday 29 July 2020Local and foreign applicants applied for 33,954 patents in Taiwan in first-half 2020, decreasing 4.45% on year mainly due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to Intellectual Property...
APT Electronics gives up IPO on SSE Star Market
Friday 5 June 2020China-based LED packaging service provider APT Electronics has withdrawn its application for IPO on Shanghai Stock Exchange's (SSE) Sci-Tech Innovation board six months after it submitted...
Chinese IC firms listed on SSE tech board may become new targets for US sanctions
Friday 5 June 2020Many China's major semiconductor firms are rushing to raise funds from the Sci-Tech Innovation Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) to support their development of advanced...
SMIC in no position to challenge TSMC, Samsung in next 5 years
Wednesday 3 June 2020China's major homegrown foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) is gearing up to raise funds to support its development of advanced manufacturing nodes, but...
SenseTime to see difficulties in raising funds
Monday 1 June 2020SenseTime, a China-based startup developer of AI-based facial recognition, is expected to see difficulties in raising funds via IPO mainly due to impact of US-China trade disputes...
Unisoc eyeing tablet chip market
Monday 11 May 2020China-based first-tier IC design house Unisoc is eyeing business opportunity in the tablet market sparked by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the company's vice president of...
Unisoc gets capital injection from Big Fund
Monday 4 May 2020China's second-phase national IC industry investment fund (Big Fund) has committed CNY4.5 billion (US$637.16 million) to Unisoc Communications to support the Tsinghua Unigroup's chipmaking...
Kioxia strives to return to profitability
Monday 2 March 2020Kioxia (formerly Toshiba Memory) is reportedly looking to go public by October 2020, and therefore is striving to swing back to profit, according to industry sources.
Taiwan 2019 patent applications slightly up on year, says IPO
Tuesday 11 February 2020Taiwanese and foreign applicants applied for 74,652 patents in 2019, increasing 1.68% on year, according to Intellectual Property Office (IPO) under Ministry of Economic Affairs.
China TWS chipmaker BES Technic to launch IPO
Tuesday 31 December 2019China-based wireless audio SoC supplier BES Technic is to enhance its financial capability through an IPO amid heating competition in China's TWS (true wireless stereo) chip market,...
Unisoc set to raise new funds to support 5G, IoT chips development
Tuesday 22 October 2019Tsinghua Unigroup's chipmaking arm Unisoc will enforce a capital increment of CNY5 billion (US$707.44 million) to support its development of core 5G and IoT chipsets, according to...
Taiwan 1H19 patent applications slightly up on year
Monday 19 August 2019Taiwan-based and foreign applicants applied for 35,534 patents during first-half 2019, increasing 0.68% on year, according to Intellectual Property Office (IPO).
HeJian halts plan for IPO
Tuesday 23 July 2019HeJian Technology (Suzhou), a chipmaking subsidiary of United Microelectronics (UMC), has halted its plans for an initial public offering on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE).
Skeptics question report about Bitmain resuming 7nm chip orders
Thursday 18 July 2019China-based Bitmain Technologies has reportedly placed around US$300 million worth of orders with TSMC for processing 30,000 wafers on 7nm node amid speculated sharp increase in demand...
Machvision to have two startups launch IPOs
Thursday 23 May 2019Taiwan AOI (automated optical inspection) specialist Machvision has seen efforts of its Bethel Unicorn Incubator Center gradually pay off, with two out of four startups incubated...
Taiwan 1Q19 patent applications slightly down
Tuesday 30 April 2019Taiwan-based and foreign applicants applied for 17,243 patents in total during first-quarter 2019, decreasing 2.44% on year, according to Intellectual Property Office (IPO).
Acer enforcing dual transformation strategy in 2019
Wednesday 24 April 2019Acer is moving to carry out a dual transformation strategy in 2019, which has its core business focus on promoting ConceptD series PCs and its innovative business powered by multiple...
TSMC top patent applicant in 2018
Tuesday 29 January 2019Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) applied for 944 patents in 2018, the most among all Taiwan-based applicants consisting of enterprises, research organizations and...
2018 review and 2019 outlook: Toshiba Memory revving up to boost competitiveness
Monday 21 January 2019Japan-based Toshiba Memory Corp (TMC), now the world's No. 2 supplier of NAND flash memory chips with nearly 20% market share, is striving at full throttles to rival top supplier...
Silicon IP developer M31 kicks off IPO auction
Thursday 3 January 2019M31 Technology, a silicon intellectual property (IP) provider in TSMC's IP Alliance, will hold an IPO auction during January 3-7 ahead of its listing on the Taipei Exchange on January...
TSMC sees pickup in orders for mining ASICs
Thursday 16 August 2018Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and its design services partners have recently seen orders for cryptocurrency mining chips pick up, as major crypto mining machine...
Bitmain to launch IPO in Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Thursday 19 July 2018China Bitcoin ASIC supplier Bitmain plans to launch an initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong early 2019 at the latest, and is seeking a pre-IPO financing of US$1 billion to boost...