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Monday 27 May 2019
Pegatron beefs up operation in Taiwan
Pegatron has been shifting its production back to Taiwan from China to minimize the impact of the US hiking tariffs on Chinese imports.
Tuesday 21 May 2019
ChangXin Memory injects over US$2.5 billion into DRAM R&D
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), a China-based DRAM startup, has injected more than US$2.5 billion into technology R&D, said company CEO Yiming Zhu at a recent GSA event in...
Wednesday 15 May 2019
TSMC board approves nearly US$4 billion for advanced-node manufacturing
The board of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has approved capital appropriations of US$3.98 billion for the purpose of upgrading and expanding capacity for advanced-node...
Monday 13 May 2019
Unimicron to pour US$20 billion into FC substrate biz over next 4 years
Unimicron Technology has disclosed plans to invest a total of NT$20 billion (US$644.7 million) in R&D and expanding production capacity for advanced flip-chip (FC) substrates through...
Thursday 9 May 2019
SMIC expects 17-19% revenue increase in 2Q19
China-based pure-play foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) expects to post a revenue increase of 17-19% sequentially in the second quarter of 2019, with gross margin...
Monday 22 April 2019
PVEVL boosts R&D of new-generation light-driven photovoltaics
Photovotaic Efficiency Verification Laboratory (PVEVL) has introduced calibration and verification equipment, and calibrating procedures under standard testing conditions for solar...
Wednesday 3 April 2019
Inspur headhunting talent from Taiwan ODMs
China-based server vendor Inspur has been aggressively headhunting talent from Taiwan-based ODMs including Quanta Computer, Wistron and Inventec for its R&D office in Taiwan, according...
Monday 1 April 2019
Memory demand to pick up in 2H19, says Macronix chairman
Memory market demand is expected to pick up in the second half of 2019, according to Miin Wu, chairman for flash memory and mask ROM chipmaker Macronix International.
Wednesday 27 March 2019
Google to build new R&D center in Taiwan
Google will expand its operation in Taiwan by building a new R&D center, making it an innovative engineering hub to support its hardware development strategy, according to Rick...
Monday 25 March 2019
Enhanced R&D on new IoT applications to boost Taiwan exports
The government in Taiwan has made it a major policy to help domestic firms step up R&D on innovative IoT applications and work out IoT-based smart city, smart mobility and smart...
Friday 22 March 2019
Demand outlook for new iPads weak
Apple has recently released its new iPad Air and iPad mini, but sources from the upstream supply chain have pointed out that the new tablets' shipments are unlikely to pick up until...
Wednesday 20 March 2019
SJSemi rolls out AiP technology for 5G and millimeter waves
SJ Semiconductor (SJSemi) has unveiled its ultrawideband dual-polarization antenna-in-package (AiP) technology for 5G millimeter-wave applications.
Tuesday 19 March 2019
Number of 300mm wafer fabs to grow through 2023, says IC Insights
The number of 300mm wafer fabrication facilities in operation continues to increase. With nine new 300mm wafer fabs scheduled to open in 2019, the worldwide number of operational 300mm...
Friday 8 March 2019
Qualcomm, MediaTek to expand R&D workforce in Taiwan
Qualcomm and MediaTek are both planning to hire more R&D personnel in Taiwan.
Monday 4 March 2019
Taiwan university establishes facilities to promote entrepreneurship
Taiwan's Chung Yuan Christian University has established a demonstration production line that comes with R&D and product demonstration centers, looking to assist its entrepreneurship...