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Winbond expects new plant to come online in 2022
Thursday 31 December 2020Winbond Electronics is constructing a new 12-inch wafer fab in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, which is scheduled to come online in the first half of 2022, according to the specialty...
ODMs hit snag in sending staff to oversee production in India
Friday 25 December 2020Worsening Covid-19 infections and the recent labor riot at Wistron's iPhone manufacturing plant in India have compounded the difficulty for Taiwan's ODMs to send Taiwanese production...
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).
SMIC co-CEO Liang reportedly offers to resign
Wednesday 16 December 2020Mong-song Liang has submitted his resignation to SMIC's board of directors after the China-based foundry decided to bring back Shang-yi Chiang to its management, according to sources...
ASE to hire over 3,000 for plant in southern Taiwan
Tuesday 24 November 2020Backend house ASE Technology has announced plans to recruit over 3,000 engineers and technicians for its factory complex in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan seeking to better meet robust...
TSMC board approves US$3.5 billion investment for US fab project
Wednesday 11 November 2020TSMC has allocated a US$3.5 billion budget for setting up a subsidiary in Arizona, where the pure-play foundry plans to build a wafe fab using 5nm process technology.
HiSilicon team in Taiwan shrinking
Wednesday 19 August 2020Huawei's chipmaking subsidiary HiSilicon has seen many of its staff in Taiwan leaving amid increasingly tough trade sanctions from the US on the Chinese tech group, according to industry...
China imports of IC to drop in 2020
Friday 8 May 2020China's imports of ICs are set to drop below US$300 billion in value this year, due mainly to the coronavirus pandemic impacting both supply and demand, according to Wei Shaojun,...
Skyworks sees operations hit by outbreak
Tuesday 28 April 2020Skyworks has suspended manufacturing operations in Mexico due to the coronavirus outbreak, raising speculation about insufficient inventories for the power amplifier vendor's shipments...
Compal, Wistron eye capacity recovery to usual level by end of March
Tuesday 10 March 2020Compal Electronics and Wistron continue to see capacity recovery in China as more of their wolrkers are returning to work, and may see their resumption rates for notebook production...
China-based XMC reportedly scales down output for 1Q20
Monday 24 February 2020Twelve-inch foundry Wuhan Xinxin Semiconductor Manufacturing (XMC) has reportedly scaled down its chip output amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Outbreak posing mixed impacts on different semiconductor segments in China
Wednesday 12 February 2020The coronavirus outbreak has posed mixed impacts on semiconductor firms operating in China, with backend service houses suffering the most, reaching average capacity utilization of...
PCB makers see workers return slowly, but shipments transportation OK
Tuesday 11 February 2020Taiwan-based PCB makers operating plants in China are seeing a low return rate of workers amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak but they have secured smooth transportation for products...
TSMC revenues up in January, VIS down
Monday 10 February 2020TSMC has reported consolidated revenues for January 2020 increased 32.8% on year and 0.4% sequentially to NT$103.68 billion (US$3.45 billion), while revenues at specialty IC foundry...
Realtek remains positive
Thursday 6 February 2020Networking IC specialist Realtek Semiconductor remains positive about its performance in the first quarter of 2020, with no substantial shifts in customer orders so far despite the...
TSMC reiterates sales guidance for 1Q20
Thursday 6 February 2020TSMC currently has no plans to revise its sales and margin guidance for the first quarter of 2020, according to the pure-play foundry, which also disclosed non-production staff at...
Memory prices to rise at slower pace
Tuesday 4 February 2020Memory chip prices are likely to rise at a slower pace in February, as buyers in China are holding a wait-and-see approach, according to industry observers.
Yangtze Memory maintains production unaffected by outbreak
Friday 31 January 2020Yangtze Memory Technology (YMTC), which is headquartered in the hardest-hit city of Wuhan in the wake of China's coronavirus outbreak, has told Digitimes that it has taken necessary...
CPT owes workers up to NT$300 million in salary
Friday 15 November 2019The ill-fated panel maker Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) is believed to be owing about 2,000 of its employees nearly NT$300 million (US$9.82 million) in salary, as it seeks to sell...
TSMC hiring new staff in Taiwan
Friday 26 July 2019TSMC has announced a large-scale hiring plan to support the company's business growth and technology development and is aiming to recruit more than 3,000 new employees in Hsinchu,...
Qualcomm still undecided about server chip biz amid reports of R&D resources cut, say sources
Wednesday 9 May 2018Members of Qualcomm's top management are still divided over whether the company should stay in or withdraw from the server market, despite reportedly having sharply reduced R&D...
SMIC obtains government fund for advanced node technology development
Thursday 1 February 2018China-based pure-play foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) has obtained financial support from the government to accelerate the development of its 14nm and more...
Apple reportedly whittles down micro LED R&D team in Taiwan
Monday 20 November 2017Apple has reportedly downsized its R&D team for development of micro LED display products in Longtan, northern Taiwan, due to issues related to mass transfer of micro LED chips...
Mong-song Liang becomes SMIC co-CEO
Tuesday 17 October 2017Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) has announced the appointment of Haijun Zhao and Mong-song Liang as the company's co-chief executive officers and executive directo...
Oxford Instruments to expand R&D staff at ITRI
Thursday 10 August 2017UK-based precision instrument maker Oxford Instruments on August 9 announced the expansion of its R&D staff stationed at the Taiwan government-sponsored Industrial Technology...