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Wednesday 8 April 2020
Demand for LiDARs to take off, says PIDA
Global demand for LiDARs for use in ADAS (advanced driver assistance system), autonomous vehicles, drones and construction engineering is going to take off along with continued improvement...
Thursday 19 March 2020
Apple unveils new iPad Pros, upgraded MacBook Air and Mac mini
Apple has announced its new iPad Pros with the latest A12Z Bionic chip, an ultra-wide camera, studio-quality mics and a LiDAR scanner that delivers depth-sensing capabilities. It...
Tuesday 18 February 2020
EVG, Inkron team up for diffractive optical element structures
EV Group (EVG), a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, has announced it is partnering with Inkron, a manufacturer...
Monday 20 January 2020
ASE, IDMs teaming up to deepen deployments in auto IC modules
Despite global automotive semiconductor market being dominated by IDMs in Europe, the US and Japan, Taiwan's backend service leader ASE Technology Holding has been strengthening its...
Monday 23 December 2019
Taiwan PCB output to rise slightly to US$21.7 billion in 2019
Taiwanese PCB makers' production in 2019 is expected to grow slightly from a year earlier to NT$656.2 billion (US$21.74 billion), with strong shipments of rigid-flex boards, high-end...
Thursday 12 December 2019
Backend firms to gain from robust high-spec auto CIS demand
Global makers of CMOS image sensors (CIS) are expected to embrace explosive demand for higher-specs CIS devices for application to autonomous vehicles in addition to handsets, which...
Wednesday 20 November 2019
Food delivery by robots: Q&A with Kiwi Campus founder Felipe Chavez Cortes
Silicon Valley-based Kiwi Campus is a startup dedicated to operating a semi-autonomous robotic platform for delivering foods, beverages and groceries to consumers on college campuses...
Thursday 7 November 2019
Silicon Motion eyeing bigger share in SSD controller market
NAND flash controller supplier Silicon Motion Technology expects its share of the global SSD controller segment to reach 40% over the next three years, up from the current 30%, according...
Friday 1 November 2019
Unitech posts record 3Q19 results on robust rigid-flex board demand
Robust shipments of rigid-flex boards - reportedly for AirPods 2 - boosted Taiwan-based PCB maker Unitech's third-quarter 2019 revenues to a new high of NT$6.204 billion (US$203.65...
Monday 14 October 2019
Unitech, Dynamic doing well with multiple niche PCB applications
Taiwan-based PCB makers Unitech and Dynamic Electronics have outperformed other local second-tier peers due mainly to their efforts in developing diverse niche applications paying...
Tuesday 17 September 2019
Win Semi to expand GaAs wafer production capacity in 2Q20
GaAs foundry Win Semiconductors plans to expand production capacity by around 5,000 6-inch wafers monthly in the second quarter of 2020 to meet ever-increasing compound semiconductor...
Thursday 11 July 2019
VPEC ramps up shipments of VCSEL devices for handset applications
Epitaxial wafer supplier Visual Photonics Epitaxy Company (VPEC) is expected to see significant revenue increases for the third quarter of 2019 as it has started intensive shipments...
Monday 1 July 2019
IntelliEPI 2019 revenues rise 10-20% on robust demand for GaAs, InP epi-wafers
Taiwan-based Intelligent Expiataxy Technology (IntelliEPI) expects its revenues for 2019 to rise 10-20% on year on growing demand for GaAs and InP-based epi wafers to support 5G infrastructure...
Monday 20 May 2019
CIS packager Kingpak revenues for 2Q19 to see slight sequential fall
Taiwan's CMOS image sensor (CIS) packaging specialist Kingpak Technology is expected to see its second-quarter revenues fall only slightly on quarter as its average capacity utilization...
Monday 1 April 2019
Taiwan researchers developing inexpensive SPAD LiDAR sensors
A Taiwan-based research team is developing inexpensive SPAD (single-photon avalanche diode) LiDAR sensors with an initial price of US$200, to be eventually reduced to US$100, according...