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Tuesday 15 November 2022
Most DDI makers downbeat about 4Q22
Display driver IC (DDI) suppliers are mostly pessimistic about sales prospects for fourth-quarter 2022, and their longer-term performance will be determined by their operation fundamentals,...
Tuesday 15 November 2022
What did Buffett see in TSMC with US$4.1 bln stock purchase?
For the first time in his 91 years of life, US billionaire Warren Buffett has recently invested in a semiconductor stock. It is not any of the American semiconductor companies, but...
Tuesday 15 November 2022
AliCloud commercializes China's first homegrown cloud processor
China's top cloud service provider Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud) has recently announced that its self-developed cloud-native processor Yitian 710 has entered large-scale commercial applications...
Tuesday 15 November 2022
Panel makers suspend equipment purchases
Display panel makers, with demand and product prices dropping, have temporarily stopped placing manufacturing equipment since mid-2022, according to panel inspection equipment maker...
Tuesday 15 November 2022
Analog Integrations reports robust sales for 1Q-3Q22
Analog Integrations (AIC) has reported impressive sales and profits for the first three quarters of 2022, buoyed by synergy efforts with its strategic partner Netronix, which provides...
Monday 14 November 2022
IC distributors expanding deployments in non-consumer, WBG chip segments
IC distributors are aggressively expanding their deployments in non-consumer chips products and third-generation semiconductors like GaN and SiC devices that remain in stable demand...
Monday 14 November 2022
Silergy expects decreased shipments to continue until mid-2023
Power management IC design house Silergy expects current decreased shipments to remain until mid-2023 because main clients will keep cleaning their inventories until the first half...
Monday 14 November 2022
Himax sees inventory peak in 3Q22
Himax Technologies believes its inventories should have hit their peak in the third quarter of 2022, when the display driver IC specialist saw its revenue and EPS both exceed the...
Monday 14 November 2022
TSMC ecosystem partners for IC design services stay unscathed amid headwinds
TSMC and its ecosystem partners in Taiwan, especially silicon IP and IC design services providers, remain able to embrace revenue gains for the fourth quarter and 2023, while most...
Monday 14 November 2022
SEA roundup: Taiwanese firms plan PHP3.88 billion investment in Philippines
Global tech companies are actively expanding their manufacturing bases to Southeast Asian countries. Companies, such as Samsung, Chimei, Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE),...
Monday 14 November 2022
DDI supplier FocalTech swings to loss in 3Q22
Display driver IC specialist FocalTech Systems swung to net loss of NT$2.77 billion (US$88.8 million) in the third quarter of 2022 from profits in the prior quarter and a year ago,...
Monday 14 November 2022
MediaTek sees a role in automotive and HPC sectors in a multi-growth era
In a meeting with analysts and media, MediaTek CEO Rick Tsai pointed out that the IC design house will concentrate investment on three focuses in the future, namely high performance,...
Friday 11 November 2022
Auto chip IDMs still unlikely to get big extra foundry capacities in 2023
Automotive chip IDMs and first-tier components suppliers are set to negotiate capacity supply and manufacturing quotes for 2023 with their foundry partners in Taiwan, but it may not...
Friday 11 November 2022
Automotive and semiconductor manufacturers have yet to reach agreement in 2023 price negotiations
Recent price negotiations between the automotive sector and wafer fabs have entered a heated period. Among them, a small percentage of fabs is expected to successfully raise the prices...
Friday 11 November 2022
Nan Ya PCB sees increasing rush orders for BT substrates
Taiwan's IC substrate supplier Nan Ya PCB has witnessed a surge in rush orders for BT substrates needed to process memory and other chip solutions for mobile smart devices and TV...