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Wednesday 16 March 2022
Epistar, Unikorn developing microLED for TVs, AR/VR devices
Epistar has been developing microLED for use in TVs and large-size commercial displays, while its subsidiary Unikorn Semiconductor focuses on developing smaller microLED chips for...
Wednesday 16 March 2022
Intel to invest EUR80 billion for chip manufacturing in Europe over next decade
Intel has announced plans to invest as much as EUR80 billion (US$88 billion) in chip manufacturing in Europe over the next decade, including a mega fab project in Germany.
Tuesday 15 March 2022
Kneron AI chips adopted by Toyota supplier Kenwood
Kneron, the San Diego-based full-stack edge AI company, announced last week that its two AI chips M5S and KL520 are used by Japanese auto supplier Kenwood in its latest dashboard...
Tuesday 15 March 2022
Flexibility the key to continued growth for IC design houses
Taiwan-based IC design houses experienced high revenue and profits in 2021, but entering into 2022, many companies clearly felt growth easing. Customers restarted set off-season stock...
Tuesday 15 March 2022
Wi-Fi 6/6E on track to go mainstream in 2022
Wi-Fi 6/6E will officially go mainstream in 2022 and is set to penetrate across all application segments, which will benefit all the related IC supply chain players including core...
Tuesday 15 March 2022
China chip industry resilient, Intel rival to emerge in 3-5 years?
With China completing its 2022 National Party Congress on March 11, some information released during and before the event raised a few eyebrows.
Tuesday 15 March 2022
MediaTek eyeing Wi-Fi SoCs as new growth driver
MediaTek will see Wi-Fi core chip business rising substantially to become its largest growth driver in 2022, helping offset weakness in handset chip demand so far this year, according...
Tuesday 15 March 2022
Coronavirus lockdown in Shenzhen and Dongguan disrupting handset supply chain
China's smartphone suppliers are facing another ordeal after Shenzhen and Dongguan authorities announced week-long lockdowns to curb rising COVID-19 infections.
Tuesday 15 March 2022
India's Tata Elxsi to build EV ecosystem with Japan's Renesas
The Indian design and tech service provider Tata Elxsi aims to build an EV ecosystem in India with the Japanese semiconductor company Renesas. The two companies had recently announced...
Monday 14 March 2022
Production suspended in Shenzhen amid COVID lockdown
The government of Shenzhen, China has imposed a COVID lockdown of the city for a week until March 20, with manufacturers there forced to suspend production.
Monday 14 March 2022
GaN-on-SiC targets base stations in growing LEO satellite market
Amid the ongoing Russian-Ukraine war, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk responded to a public request from a Ukrainian politician to provide Starlink satellite internet services to Ukraine. Ukraine...
Monday 14 March 2022
Silergy to ramp up PMIC shipments for car, server applications in 2H22
Silergy, which is dedicated to supplying power management ICs (PMIC), battery management solutions and other analog power components, expects the shipments of its third-generation...
Monday 14 March 2022
China's automakers seek in-house chip production
To allay the impact of chip shortages, many automakers in China, including Xiaomi, have sought closer cooperation with chip suppliers.
Monday 14 March 2022
Nexchip approved to list on Shanghai STAR
Foundry house Nexchip Semiconductor, a joint venture between Taiwan's Power Semiconductor Manufacturing and the Hefei city government of China's Anhui province, has secured recently...
Monday 14 March 2022
Compeq to embrace strong 1Q22
HDI PCB specialist Compeq Manufacturing is poised to enjoy a particularly strong first quarter of 2022, thanks to improvement in logic chip shortages and a pull-in of customer orders,...