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Thursday 14 January 2021
ASRock, ASMedia post profit surges in 2020
Motherboard and graphics card maker ASRock and ASMedia Technology, a fabless chipmaker specializing in high-speed transmission chips, both enjoyed revenue surges in 2020 with promising...
Thursday 14 January 2021
Notebook brands promoting new models powered by AMD chips
Brand vendors, such as Acer, have more of their new-generation notebooks powered by AMD processors, according to industry sources.
Thursday 14 January 2021
China smartphone vendors step up chips, components procurement
Chinese handset vendors Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi (OVX) have stepped up their purchases of ICs and basic components for their smartphones as part of their efforts to expand presence in...
Thursday 14 January 2021
MediaTek enhances ASIC and IP design capability
MediaTek continues to enhance its ASIC and IP design capability through several acquisitions announced recently, while recruiting talent from the IP and IC design industry sectors,...
Thursday 14 January 2021
Value of semiconductor industry M&A agreements sets record in 2020, says IC Insights
Five big acquisition announcements and more than a dozen smaller deals in 2020 pushed the total value of M&A agreements in the year to an all-time high of US$118 billion, surpassing...
Wednesday 13 January 2021
Highlights of the day: Wireless applications and servers to see strong 2021
As 5G and Wi-Fi 6 are becoming the mainstream specifications for the IT market in 2021, Taiwan's III-V IC companies...
Wednesday 13 January 2021
Major China MOSFET supplier raises prices
China Resources Microelectronics (CR Micro) has notified its clients based mainly in China about price hikes for all its power semiconductor products, including MOSFET and IGBT components,...
Wednesday 13 January 2021
PCB supply chain to gain from mass production of new Intel server processors
Taiwan's PCB supply chain is poised to embrace a new wave of growth momentum in 2021 from Intel entering volume production of its latest 10nm Ice Lake Xeon scalable server processors...
Wednesday 13 January 2021
Unimicron posts record revenues for 2020
PCB and IC substrate supplier Unimicron Technology has reported its 2020 revenues spiked 6.5% on year to a new high of NT$87.89 billion (US$3.14 billion) mainly driven by strong shipments...
Wednesday 13 January 2021
GIS reportedly lands new ultrasonic fingerprint sensor module orders from Samsung
Touch panel maker General Interface Solution (GIS) is expected to lock in the first batch of in-display ultrasonic fingerprint sensor module orders from Samsung Electronics for usage...
Wednesday 13 January 2021
III-V IC players enjoy high capacity utilization for 5G, Wi-Fi 6 applications
Taiwan's III-V IC firms including GaAs foundries Win Semiconductors and Advanced Wireless Semiconductor (AWSC) as well as epi-wafer suppliers Visual Photonics Epitaxy (VPEC) and Intelligent...
Wednesday 13 January 2021
Ambarella unveils 5nm AI vision processor
Ambarella has unveiled CV5, an artificial intelligence (AI) vision processor for single 8K and multi-imager AI cameras, setting a new standard for power efficiency with 8K video recording...
Wednesday 13 January 2021
Gowin embeds Winbond 64Mb HyperRAM to GoAI 2.0
Winbond Electronics Corporation, a leading global supplier of semiconductor memory solutions, today announced that FPGA manufacturer Gowin Semiconductor has embedded a Winbond 64Mb...
Wednesday 13 January 2021
Taiwan LCD driver IC firms continue to see orders ramp up
Taiwan-based LCD driver IC suppliers continue to enjoy a ramp-up in orders including short lead-time ones, and will see their supply remains tight through the second quarter of 2021,...
Tuesday 12 January 2021
Probe cards in tight supply for driver ICs
With the supply of display driver ICs (DDI) falling increasingly short of demand, cantilever probe cards needed to process DDI and other midrange logic ICs including NAND controllers...