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Tuesday 2 November 2021
Specialty memory maker ESMT upbeat about ASP growth in 2022
Specialty memory IC design house Elite Semiconductor Memory Technology (ESMT) expects its gross margin to stay high at above 40% in the fourth quarter of 2021, with the prospect that...
Tuesday 2 November 2021
Infineon focuses on SiC power component development for EVs
The rapid growth of the electric vehicle (EV) market is driving the growth of power semiconductors. It has also increased the introduction of third-generation silicon carbide (SiC)...
Tuesday 2 November 2021
Bosch announces investments in Germany and Malaysia to boost chip capacity
Bosch, the major automotive supplier, announced that the company would invest more than EUR 400 million (approximately US$464 million) at its factories in Dresden and Reutlingen,...
Tuesday 2 November 2021
DDI vendors may see gross margins eroded by rising production costs
Taiwan's display driver IC (DDI) suppliers will likely post sequential decreases in gross margins through the first quarter of 2022, as they encounter more difficulties in passing...
Tuesday 2 November 2021
GaN and SiC compete in the EV market
Third-generation gallium nitride (GaN) and silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductors are competing for use in power devices in future cars. While SiC has taken the lead thanks to Tesla,...
Tuesday 2 November 2021
China smartphone AP shipments to fall nearly 30% in 4Q21, says Digitimes Research
About 258 million smartphone application processors were shipped to China-based handset vendors in the third quarter of 2021, up 17.9% sequentially, but the corresponding shipments...
Tuesday 2 November 2021
Global semiconductor sales increase 27.6% in 3Q21
Worldwide sales of semiconductors totaled US$144.8 billion during the third quarter of 2021, up 27.6% on year and 7.4% sequentially, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association...
Monday 1 November 2021
India roundup: carmakers are running low on lithium battery
India continues pushing for its local manufacturing of EV and semiconductors; however, lithium batteries are hard to find. Honda may launch its first electric two-wheeler in India...
Monday 1 November 2021
Highlights of the day: Samsung discloses bold move to triple foundry capacity
Samsung Electronics has made a bold plan to triple its foundry production capacity by 2026. However, the global chip...
Monday 1 November 2021
Realtek to sustain robust shipments of networking chips through 1H22
Taiwan-based networking chip supplier Realtek Semiconductor expects its shipment growth momentum to persist into the first half of 2022 after posting impressive revenue and profit...
Monday 1 November 2021
Flexciton optimizes wafer fab scheduling to improve production efficiency
Flexciton, a UK-based software startup, deployed its production scheduling optimization software in Seagate's factory in Derry, Northern Ireland. The software is based on mixed-integer...
Monday 1 November 2021
Semiconductors to stay a seller's market through 1H22
After lasting for almost two years, global semiconductor shortage is on track to ease as the pandemic continues to subside in many countries, and semiconductor demand is expected...
Monday 1 November 2021
Micron launches new capacity expansion in Japan

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Monday 1 November 2021
RichWave expects Wi-Fi 5 RF-FEM shipments to rebound in1Q22
Taiwan-based RichWave Technology, dedicated to offering RF-FEM (front-end modules) for Wi-Fi and other related applications, saw its third-quarter 2021 shipments drop significantly...
Friday 29 October 2021
Silicon Motion expects up to 5% revenue growth in 4Q21
Flash device controller IC supplier Silicon Motion Technology expects to post revenues of between US$254 million and US$267 million in the fourth quarter of 2021, representing an...