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Wednesday 19 September 2012
Renesas to shift foundry orders away from Powerchip, report says
Renesas Electronics is looking to shift its foundry orders for driver ICs used in Apple's iOS devices to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), and will discontinue its...
Friday 17 August 2012
Japan IDMs to increase outsourcing of logic IC backend processing
Major Japan-based IDM companies including Renesas, Sony and Toshiba are set to increase outsourcing of backend processing for logic ICs, and have approached existing and potential...
Thursday 5 July 2012
TSMC has no plans to purchase Renesas 12-inch fab, says chairman
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has no plans to take up Renesas Electronics' 12-inch fab in Tsuruoka, Yamagata prefecture, but will continue to maintain a close...
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Renesas to cut jobs, streamline operations
Japan-based chipmaker Renesas Electronics has unveiled measures to return to profitability, including plans to streamline its production facilities, and eliminate about 5,000 posit...
Monday 2 July 2012
Renesas to sell or shut fabs, says report
Renesas Electronics is mulling plans to sell or shutter 10 of its 19 wafer fabs in Japan, and shift its focus to more microcontroller (MCU) manufacturing, the Chinese-language Commercial...
Friday 29 June 2012
Chipbond gold bumping capacity booked for iPhones, says report
Chipbond Technology reportedly has cut into the supply chain for Apple's iPhone 5 through providing backend services for the LCD driver ICs used in the upcoming iPhones with retina...
Monday 28 May 2012
Renesas, TSMC extend tie-up
Renesas Electronics and TSMC on May 28 announced that they have signed an agreement to extend their microcontroller (MCU) technology collaboration to 40nm embedded flash (eFlash)...
Tuesday 13 March 2012
Chipbond sees flat growth in 1Q12 sales
Chipbond Technology, which provides packaging and testing services for driver ICs used mainly in TV and handset panels, expects its consolidated revenues to register flat sequential...
Thursday 16 February 2012
Intel to postpone mass shipments of Ivy Bridge processors
Intel recently notified its partners about plans to postpone mass shipments of its upcoming Ivy Bridge processors. Despite that the company will still announce the new products and...
Tuesday 14 February 2012
Novatek breaks into supply chain of Sharp, says report
Taiwan-based IC design house Novatek Microelectronics reportedly has entered the supply chain of Sharp with its large-size LCD driver ICs, according to a Chinese-language Commercial...
Thursday 2 February 2012
Renesas to terminate large-size LCD driver IC business
Renesas Electronics has unveiled plans to withdraw from the large-size display driver IC business, citing the slowdown of the flat panel display market and falls in prices.
Friday 20 January 2012
MIPS joins Renesas SoC partner program
MIPS Technologies, a provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital home, networking and mobile applications, has announced that it has joined the Renesas...
Tuesday 6 December 2011
Powerchip mass producing driver ICs at 90nm
Powerchip Technology has announced mass production of the foundry segment's 90nm high-voltage process technology for small- to medium-size driver ICs used in mobile device applications,...
Thursday 3 November 2011
Chipbond expects flat or slight growth in 4Q11 sales
Chipbond Technology, which provides backend services to LCD driver IC suppliers such as Japan's Renesas Electronics, Taiwan-based Novatek Microelectronics and ILi Technology (Ilitek),...
Friday 21 October 2011
Standalone transceiver chips to dominate the smartphone market, says Petrov Group (part 1)
Transceivers are essential to the performance of mobile devices. They are designed to detect weak signals at a specific frequency when receiving and to send signals at a specific...