Texas Instruments (TI) and the US Department of Commerce have signed a non-binding preliminary memorandum of terms for up to US$1.6 billion in proposed direct funding under the CHIPS...
Semiconductor materials supplier Topco Scientific is keenly promoting the use of new materials for CoWoS and other advanced packaging technologies, confident in its operations and...
The just acquired 5.5G panel fab would enable TSMC to boost its overall production capacity for CoWoS packaging to 60,000 wafers per month in 2025, with a projected increase to 70,000-80,000...
Shin-Etsu Chemical and Sumco, which account for approximately 50% of the global wafer market, have both reported a decline in demand for the April-June 2024 quarter compared to the...
Samsung Display (SDC) is reportedly collaborating with Microsoft to develop and supply OLED on Silicon (OLEDoS) for the next generation of Mixed Reality (MR) devices.
China-based pure-play foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) reported a decline in profit despite growing revenue by more than 20% amid intense competition...
Infineon Technologies is set to unveil a new silicon carbide (SiC) wafer fab at its plant site in Kulim, Malaysia, which aims to move from 6-inch to 8-inch production in 2025. Malaysia's...
Silicon wafer company GlobalWafers has revised its revenue growth projection for 2024 to a decline in the high single digits. The revision was downgraded for the second time this...
Despite a strong overall performance in the second quarter of 2024, Samsung Electronics continues to grapple with losses in its wafer foundry business. Most analyses indicate that...
Worldwide silicon wafer shipments increased 7.1% quarter-on-quarter to 3.035 billion square inches in the second quarter of 2024, but saw an 8.9% decline from the 3.33 billion square...
Epitaxial wafer manufacturer LandMark Optoelectronics expects its product mix improvement to drive revenue and profit growth in the third quarter, as US silicon photonics customers...
Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) expects to post a mid-single-digit sequential increase in wafer shipments with about flat growth in ASPs in the third quarter of 2024,...
The Biden Administration has announced that the CHIPS and Science Act will subsidize US$400 million to help Amkor, the largest semiconductor packaging and testing company in the US,...
