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Friday 28 May 2021
Taiwan IC design houses see orders pick up for servers
Chip orders for servers and datacenters have started picking up, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC design houses, which expect the orders pull-in momentum to carry on through...
Friday 28 May 2021
Chipmakers striving to obtain stable aQFN leadframe supply
Chipmakers including MediaTek, Qualcomm and Realtek Semiconductor are striving to secure stable supply of leadframes for use in aQFN packaging, with related leadframe suppliers already...
Friday 28 May 2021
Taiwan PCB output value surges 26.7% in 1Q21
Taiwanese PCB makers saw their combined first-quarter 2021 output value at their plants in Taiwan and China surge 26.7% on year to NT$173.4 billion (US$6.11 billion), a record high...
Friday 28 May 2021
Small-size TV panel prices to stop rising in June
Panel prices for small-size TV applications will stop rising in June, but those of large-size TV, monitor and notebook applications will continue moving upward.
Friday 28 May 2021
Android camp slow in adopting mmWave
Chinese vendors have yet to release mmWave 5G models and corresponding infrastructure construction in China remains slow, according to industry sources.
Thursday 27 May 2021
TSMC ramping up output for automotive MCUs
TSMC has disclosed it is ramping up its output for automotive microcontrollers (MCU) for 2021, which will be 60% higher than in 2020.
Thursday 27 May 2021
China LCD panel makers to ramp up output from existing 8.6G and 10.5G fabs
China-based LCD panel makers have continued to ramp up capacity at their existing 8.6G and 10.5G fabs although most of them have said they would not establish new LCD panel fabs.
Thursday 27 May 2021
Another TSMC employee infected with coronavirus
One of TSMC's employees living in New Taipei City has been tested positive for COVID-19, according to the pure-play foundry. The Taiwan-based foundry has seen two employees infected...
Thursday 27 May 2021
IC test interface vendors keenly developing high-specs solutions for EV chips
IC test interfaces that can withstand high current of up to 1,000 A and high voltage of 1,200V will see a significant surge in demand for processing high-current driver ICs and other...
Thursday 27 May 2021
Taiwan III-V IC firms gearing up for car LiDAR demand
Taiwan's III-V semiconductor players including foundry Win Semiconductors and epi-wafer supplier Visual Photonics Epitaxy (VPEC) have cut into the supply chains of major carmakers...
Thursday 27 May 2021
Taiwan small- to mid-size LCD panels – 1Q 2021
Taiwan's small- to medium-size panel shipments only went down 2.4% sequentially in the first quarter of 2021, thanks mainly to better-than-expected smartphone panel demand, despite...
Thursday 27 May 2021
Global tablet market, 1Q 2021
First-quarter 2021 global tablet shipments amounted to 35.96 million units, down 22.7% from a quarter ago but up 45.5% from a year ago.
Thursday 27 May 2021
Taiwan PCB makers unlikely to gain from CMK suspending production in Thailand
Japan's major automotive PCB maker CMK has decided to suspend production at its plant in Thailand for one week after 10 employees were infected with COVID-19 virus, but Taiwan-based...
Wednesday 26 May 2021
Highlights of the day: Supply chain gears up for new iPhones
Apple's supply chain is gearing up for the upcoming iPhones. Apple is expected to adopt flexible AMOLED for all of its next-generation iPhones to be launched later this year and will...
Wednesday 26 May 2021
Supply of fast-charging devices remains constrained
Taiwan-based fabless chipmakers specializing in fast-charging devices for handsets continue to see their supply constrained, despite some concerns raised about disappointing end-market...