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Friday 24 December 2021
Taiwan faces challenges in SiC development
Taiwan is currently lagging in the development of the third-generation semiconductor silicon carbide (SiC), which has grown popular for its potential applications in 5G communications,...
Friday 24 December 2021
Japan, China still lack EV chargers
The lack of charging infrastructures is a mutual concern for most countries promoting EVs, especially in Japan and China, where sales of EVs are increasing more significantly than...
Friday 24 December 2021
Taiwan backend houses step up deployments for 3rd-gen semiconductors
GEM Services and Lingsen Precision Industries, which specialize in power component and module backend services, and RF component and module packagers Tong Hsing Electronic Industries...
Friday 24 December 2021
2021 Asia tech M&A deals and values hit new high
Technology merger and acquisition activities accelerated in 2021 and deals in Asia broke the US$100 billion mark for the first time in history, totaling US$137.3 billion, up 86.3%...
Thursday 23 December 2021
Samsung, BYD might get affected by Xi'an lockdown
Chinese authority has ordered the city of Xi'an, home to Samsung's chipmaking facilities and BYD's car production lines, to go into lockdown begining the evening of December 22 due...
Thursday 23 December 2021
Supply-side constraints challenging education laptops supply, says Microsoft Taiwan
Supply-side constraints, rather than demand weakening, are challenging the global supply of education-use notebooks and tablets including Chromebooks and Microsoft's Surface Go series,...
Thursday 23 December 2021
Taiwan OSATs upbeat about orders for automotive, commercial chips
Taiwan-based IC backend houses have seen their international customers scale up orders for processing midrange and high-end chips for automotive and commercial device applications,...
Thursday 23 December 2021
Taiwan IC design houses to accept foundry price hikes
Taiwan-based IC design houses including first-tier players are aware they will have to accept price increases proposed by pure-play foundries in order to obtain more available fab...
Thursday 23 December 2021
TAS sets up subsidiary for compound semiconductors
ProAsia Semiconductor (PASC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Taiwan Asia Semiconductor (TAS, formerly Opto Tech), will be engaged in compound semiconductor R&D and production with...
Wednesday 22 December 2021
TTA to showcase 100 Taiwan startups at CES 2022
With CES 2022 just around the corner, Taiwan Tech Arena (TTA) will showcase 100 high-potential Taiwanese startups at the annual event, including seven award-winning startups. Between...
Wednesday 22 December 2021
Top 10 semiconductor news in 2021
The semiconductor industry experienced a dramatic year in 2021 - climate crises, pandemic, fire at a Japanese chip factory, geopolitical tension, and automakers' decision-making error...
Wednesday 22 December 2021
Xiaomi 5G smartphone growth stalls in 3Q21, says Strategy Analytics
Xiaomi's global 5G smartphone shipments growth stalled in the third quarter of 2021, while Honor outperform peers in terms of shipment growth, according to Strategy Analytics.
Wednesday 22 December 2021
High-end IC testing demand to stay robust in 2022
Testing demand for HPC chips, mobile application processors, wireless connectivity chips, and other high-end logic chips will stay strong in 2022, according to sources at Taiwan-based...
Wednesday 22 December 2021
Seventeen semiconductor companies to see 2021 revenue top US$10 billion
IC Insights has forecast that 17 companies will have worldwide semiconductor (IC and OSD - optoelectronics, sensor, and discrete) sales of more than US$10.0 billion in 2021.