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Monday 8 August 2022
Novatek expects sharp declines in 3Q22 sales
Driver IC (DDI) design house Novatek Microelectronics has a bleak outlook for third-quarter 2022 mainly because global demand for TVs, smartphones and notebooks remains weak, according...
Monday 8 August 2022
TSMC's future R&D initiatives revealed in VLSI Symposium
The world's largest semiconductor foundry service provider, TSMC, shared innovations beyond its current roadmaps to illustrate technology innovation at system and product level, and...
Monday 8 August 2022
PC chipmakers Intel, AMD, Nvidia lower shipment goals amid sluggish demand
Major PC core chips suppliers Intel, AMD and Nvidia have all revised downward their 2022 shipment or revenue projections along with brand device vendors successively lowering their...
Monday 8 August 2022
Samsung to start manufacturing semiconductor parts in Vietnam in 2023
Samsung Electronics has confirmed that it is preparing for the trial production of flip-chip ball grid array (FC-BGA) in Vietnam and plans to start mass production in July 2023 at...
Friday 5 August 2022
Samsung 3nm node progresses as S Korea evaluates China exposure
Samsung Electronics officially began chip production using its latest 3nm Gate-All-Around (GAA) process node on June 30, and went on to celebrate the first shipment of GAA-based chips...
Friday 5 August 2022
PCB drill bit maker Topoint sees flat performance for 3Q22
Taiwan-based Topoint Technology, dedicated to supplying PCB drill bits and drilling services, expects its third-quarter revenues to see a flat sequential growth at best, as most of...
Friday 5 August 2022
DDI backend specialists strive to maintain capacity utilization
Display driver IC (DDI) backend specialists are striving to maintain their fab capacity utilization, bracing for a tough second half of 2022, according to industry sources.
Friday 5 August 2022
Micron and WD proposes to form memory coalition amid fierce competition with China and Korea
Micron, the world's third largest memory chip manufacturer, announced on August 4 to jointly propose a Memory Coalition of Excellence (MCOE) with Western Digital (WD), another US...
Friday 5 August 2022
NXP, Inventec team up for automotive electronics ecosystem in Taiwan
Automotive IC vendor NXP Semiconductors and ODM Inventec have announced they are teaming up to create an industry ecosystem locally in Taiwan for automotive electronics products.
Friday 5 August 2022
Samsung cuts TV panel procurement target for 2022
Samsung Electronics reportedly has lowered its LCD TV panel procurement target for this year to 35 million units from the previous amount of 47 million units and has stepped up efforts...
Friday 5 August 2022
Elan to see 3Q22 revenue fall about 30%
Taiwan-based Elan Microelectronics, specializing in touchscreen controllers for PC applications, expects to see its third-quarter revenue fall 28-32% sequentially with flat growth...
Friday 5 August 2022
FPCBs, demand for LEO satellites to buoy Compeq 2H22 sales
The arrival of new flexible PCB production capacity and rising HDI PCB demand for low earth orbit (LEO) satellites will buoy Compeq Manufacturing's sales performance in the second...
Thursday 4 August 2022
Parade 3Q22 sales to fall as clients continue inventory correction
High-speed transmission chip specialist Parade Technologies has newly projected a notable sequential fall for third-quarter 2022 revenues as clients will remain keen on adjusting...
Thursday 4 August 2022
GlobalFoundries joins Google's open-source silicon initiative
Google announced in a blog on August 3 that GlobalFoundries (GF) is participating in its open-source silicon initiative as a new partner, calling the new partnership a milestone in...
Thursday 4 August 2022
As consumer demand falls, GigaDevice turns its gaze to the automotive and industrial sectors
The semiconductor supply chain is seeing dramatic changes, impacting consumer electronics head-on, and the drop in demand has further impacted IC design and IC manufacturing industries...