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Friday 26 November 2021
Equipment maker ACM debuts on China STAR market
ACM Research, a supplier of wafer cleaning technologies for advanced semiconductor devices, has had its Shanghai-based subsidiary start trading on the science and technology innovation...
Wednesday 24 November 2021
Smartphone AP suppliers demanding 12-inch fab capacity for PWM ICs
Smartphone application processor vendors including Apple, Qualcomm and MediaTek have moved to reserve the available 12-inch BCD (bipolar-CMOS-DMOS) process capacity at foundries for...
Friday 19 November 2021
Taiwan 2nd-tier foundries to enjoy gross margin growth in 2022
Taiwan-based second-tier pure-play foundries, such as Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) and Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing (PSMC), will see their gross margins hike...
Friday 12 November 2021
Highlights of the day: SMIC sees management shakeup
China-based SMIC has seen a shakeup in its top management, with company vice chairman Chiang Shang-yi - supposed to...
Friday 12 November 2021
Chiang resigns from SMIC
China-based foundry house Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) has approved the departure of Chiang Shang-Yi, who submitted his resignation as company vice chairman.
Thursday 4 November 2021
Taiwan pure-play foundries see profitability outperform international peers
Taiwan-based pure-play foundries, led by TSMC, are all poised to generate significant profit increases this year outperforming their international peers including Globalfoundries...
Thursday 28 October 2021
New SMIC fab in Shenzhen to produce DDI, PMIC
China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) has unveiled more details about its new 12-inch fab project In Shenzhen, such as the fab's initial focus on the manufacture...
Friday 22 October 2021
China Big Fund continues financing homegrown semi equipment suppliers
China's National Semiconductor Industry Investment Fund (aka the Big Fund) continues to pour money into China's domestic fab toolmakers, looking to rev up the development of China's...
Thursday 21 October 2021
ASML gearing up for EUV equipment boom
With Intel announcing plans to adopt ASML's high-NA EUV machines in its post-nanometer process technology that is expected to be ready for production by 2025, ASML has disclosed it...
Friday 15 October 2021
Will foundry expansions lead to capacity glut?
Many IDMs and pure-play foundries, including second-tier ones, are all poised to expand their fab capacities sparking concerns that the arrival of the additional capacities could...
Wednesday 22 September 2021
China silicon wafer maker Zingsemi to grow monthly capacity to 1 million by 2025
China-based Zing Semiconductor is expected to see its monthly production for 12-inch silicon wafers ramp up to one million pieces by 2025 from the current level of 250,000, according...
Tuesday 14 September 2021
US chip vendors increasingly shift orders from China foundries
US chip vendors have increasingly shifted their orders away from China-based foundries to mitigate potential risks arising from the ongoing trade tensions between the US and China,...
Tuesday 14 September 2021
SMIC to build additional, considerable 28nm and above process capacity
China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) will be expanding production capacity for 28nm and above process technologies by 2024, which will considerably boost its overall...
Tuesday 7 September 2021
Foundries step up capacity expansions
Pure-play foundries have accelerated their capacity expansions as they have seen promising demand for cloud computing, AI, EV, 5G and IoT related applications, with order visibility...
Monday 6 September 2021
SMIC to invest US$8.8 billion to build new fab in Shanghai
China-based Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) has disclosed it has struck a deal with the administrative committee of the Lingang Free Trade Zone (FTZ) under which...