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Friday 23 August 2019
Xilinx intros FPGA featuring 9 million system logic cells
Xilinx has announced the expansion of its 16nm Virtex UltraScale+ family to now include what the company claims is the world's largest FPGA, the Virtex UltraScale+ VU19P, with 35...
Thursday 22 August 2019
Elan eyes record revenues for 3Q19
Taiwan-based IC designer Elan Microelectronics expects its third-quarter 2019 revenues to hit a new quarterly high on a notable sequential increase to be driven by demand for stylus...
Thursday 22 August 2019
Taiwan LCD monitors – 2Q 2019
Taiwan PC monitor shipments continued their on-year growth momentum in the second quarter of 2019, but the increase slowed to only 4.5% with the volume reaching 21.98 million units...
Thursday 22 August 2019
Unisoc to roll out 7nm 5G chip in 2020
Unisoc Communications, Tsinghua Unigroup's chipmaking arm, has had its 7nm 5G baseband chip proceed to the customer validation stage, according to a media report from China.
Thursday 22 August 2019
Top-15 semiconductor suppliers see combined sales fall 18% in 1H19, says IC Insights
IC Insights has released its list of the world's top-15 semiconductor suppliers in the first half of 2019, and identified Sony as the only company registering year-over-year growth...
Wednesday 21 August 2019
Japan PCB industry output value drops in 1H19
The output value of Japan's PCB industry dropped 6.9% from a year earlier to JPY219.79 billion (US$2.06 billion) in the first half of 2019, with that of the flexible PCB sector experiencing...
Wednesday 21 August 2019
IC material distributors positive about 5G-driven demand
Semiconductor materials distributors Wahlee Industrial and Topco Scientific are both optimistic that strong demand for high-end engineering plastics, silicon wafers and photoresist...
Wednesday 21 August 2019
ChipMOS, OSE to post sales growth in 2H19
A ramp-up in orders for NAND flash memory will boost revenues at backend houses ChipMOS Technologies and Orient Semiconductor Electronics (OSE) in the second half of 2019, according...
Tuesday 20 August 2019
Highlights of the day: MediaTek on track to unveil 5G SOCs
Taiwan-based IC designer house MediaTek reportedly is on track to roll out its first 5G SoC series, codenamed MT6885,...
Tuesday 20 August 2019
AUO, Innolux shipping 8K TV panels in small volumes
AU Optronics (AUO) and Innolux have begun shipping 8K TV panels to their Japan-based clients, respectively, albeit in small volumes due to low yield rates at the moment, according...
Tuesday 20 August 2019
MediaTek 5G SoC on track; Qualcomm faces 7nm EUV yield issues at Samsung, sources say
Unsatisfactory yield rates at Samsung's 7nm EUV process may affect production for the upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 7250 mobile SoC, but MediaTek's development of 5G chips, with support...
Tuesday 20 August 2019
China foundry HSMC to push chiplet standard formulation, says CEO Shang-yi Chiang
While Moore's Law is approaching its physical limits, only a few could still afford the expensive game of process shrink. And when the post-Moore's Law era comes, semiconductor firms,...
Tuesday 20 August 2019
Graphics card market to see heated competition between Nvidia, AMD, Intel in 2021
Nvidia's dominance in the discrete graphics card market is expected to see strong challenges from Intel and AMD beginning from 2021, according to sources from the upstream supply...
Tuesday 20 August 2019
Goodix to acquire NXP voice and audio solutions biz
Shenzhen Goodix Technology has reached a definitive agreement with NXP Semiconductors under which it will acquire all assets of NXP's voice and audio solutions (VAS) business, according...
Tuesday 20 August 2019
Himax 3D sensing solution adopted for factory automation
Himax Technologies has announced that the company is teaming up with GTS to allow its structural light 3D sensing solution to be adopted for factory automation.