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Wednesday 28 April 2021
Taiwan IC design houses see 1Q21 gross margins hike
Taiwan-based IC design houses particularly those specializing in display driver ICs and MOSFET chips are set to see their gross margins and profitability hike in the first quarter...
Wednesday 28 April 2021
UMC eyeing long-term contracts with major clients
Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) is striving to get its major clients including Samsung Electronics, MediaTek and Qualcomm to enter into 3-year supply agreements, according...
Wednesday 28 April 2021
WT Micro expects up to 30% revenue surge in 2Q21
Taiwan-based IC distributor WT Microelectronics expects to post revenue in a range between NT$92 billion (US$3.3 billion) and NT$98 billion in the second quarter of 2021, representing...
Wednesday 28 April 2021
SK Hynix posts operating profit and revenue increases in 1Q21
SK Hynix has reported operating profit climbed 37% sequentially and 66% on year to KRW1.32 trillion (US$1.19 billion) in the first quarter of 2021, while revenue grew 7% on quarter...
Wednesday 28 April 2021
Faraday upbeat about 1H21
Faraday Technology, a fabless ASIC service and silicon IP provider, has expressed optimism about its sales growth in the first half of 2021 driven by robust growth in revenue generated...
Tuesday 27 April 2021
Prospects of mmWave 5G chips may not become clear till 2H22
The chance of mmWave chips mounting a major challenge to the title of being the leading 5G mobile solutions will remain until at least the second half of 2022 due to tight capacity...
Tuesday 27 April 2021
Highlights of the day: Intel striving to fend off AMD in server market
Intel's overall sales for first-quarter 2021 were flat but revenues from its datacenter business dropped 20% on year, seriously undermining the chip giant's profitability. Intel...
Tuesday 27 April 2021
PCB supply chain eyeing replacement demand stoked by new server CPUs
Taiwan's PCB supply chain players are optimistic that they will receive a boost from the upcoming server replacement demand to be driven by rollouts of new processors by Intel, according...
Tuesday 27 April 2021
Darwin upbeats about demand for miniLED backlight applications
Taiwan-based Darwin Precisions, which offers fine metal masks (FMM) for OLED panel production, expects robust demand for miniLED-backlit applications to drive its sales growth in...
Tuesday 27 April 2021
Drill bit makers see significant surge in hole drilling business
Taiwan-based PCB drill bit makers including Topoint Technology and Key Ware Electronics have seen their hole drilling businesses expand substantially since the second half of 2020,...
Tuesday 27 April 2021
Intel to defend market share with new 10nm server chips
Intel with its new-generation 10nm server chips will be striving to defend its market dominance.
Tuesday 27 April 2021
Delivery lead times for MCUs prolonged to over 6 months, says Holtek
Delivery lead times for MCUs have been prolonged to more than six months due to tight capacity at foundry fabs and IC backend service providers, according to Armstrong Tsai, vice...
Tuesday 27 April 2021
China firms gearing up for new-gen 5G chip rollouts
Unisoc is expected to roll out its new-generation 6nm 5G chip solution some time between late second-quarter and early third-quarter 2021, while Xiaomi and Oppo also have plans to...
Tuesday 27 April 2021
T-Global integrates supply chain through thermal module designing services
In this 5G era, diverse environments have led communications systems and equipment suppliers to find different development opportunities. Also, as private business network applications...
Tuesday 27 April 2021
Semiconductor equipment billings log record high for 3rd consecutive month
North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$3.27 billion in billings worldwide in March 2021 (three-month average basis), a record high for the third consecutive...