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Monday 1 October 2018
Intel to spend US$1 billion boosting 14nm chip output
Intel CFO and interim CEO Bob Swan has announced that the chip giant will invest an additional US$1 billion in 2018 in expanding its 14nm manufacturing sites to address tight suppl...
Friday 28 September 2018
Taiwan building new nano-chip development center
Taiwan's National Applied Research Laboratories (NARLabs) has joined forces with National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) to break ground for a new campus of the nation's nano-chip center...
Friday 28 September 2018
Taiwan gearing up to net annual IC output value of NT$3 trillion by 2021
Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) is aggressively moving to pool cross-domain academic forces to help the semiconductor sector break through bottlenecks seen in the...
Thursday 27 September 2018
Pan International sees passive component shortages ease
Pan International, an affiliate of the Foxconn Group, expects sales from its electronic manufacturing service (EMS) business to pick up in the second half of 2018 as the tight supply...
Thursday 27 September 2018
Tight supply of Intel processors unlikely to ease until 2H19, says Compal president
The ongoing tight supply of Intel's processors is unlikely to ease until the second half of 2019 and will undermine worldwide notebook shipments during the upcoming peak season, according...
Thursday 27 September 2018
Rafael Micro diversifying product line
Radio-frequency (RF) chip specialist Rafael Microelectronics has been enhancing and diversifying its products to include Bluetooth 5.0 solutions, optical tuners and receivers, and...
Thursday 27 September 2018
Qualcomm plans to set up two R&D centers in Taiwan
Qualcomm plans to establish a multimedia research and development (R&D) center and a mobile artificial intelligence (AI) enablement center in Taiwan, which are expected to begin...
Thursday 27 September 2018
Innolux to hire more for high-end display, automotive panel developments
Innolux is expanding its workforce as it is enhancing its deployment in the high-end display systems, automotive panel and smart retailing sectors, according to company HR department...
Thursday 27 September 2018
AUO panel shipments to remain robust in 4Q18, says chairman
AU Optronics' (AUO) flat panel shipments remain robust, with the sales momentum for large-size high-end TV applications to continue into the first half of November, and that for IT...
Thursday 27 September 2018
Clients play key role in enhancement of Sesto IMRs, says company CEO Michael Leong
Following Sesto Robotics' debut at Semicon Taiwan in 2016 and return to the show in 2017, the Singapore-based automated guided vehicle (AGV) and intelligent mobile robot (IMR) developer...
Wednesday 26 September 2018
PCB sector sees little impact from US-China tariff war
The US has recently kicked off imposing additional tariffs on roughly US$200 billion of imports from China, promoting Taiwan major assemblers of electronics products to seriously...
Wednesday 26 September 2018
New iPhone sales momentum likely to slow down in late 2018, say sources
Demand for Apple's iPhone XS series is likely to slow down later in 2018 after the initial fanfares for the new gadgets fade away, due largely to the high pricing set for the new...
Tuesday 25 September 2018
Chipmakers to gain from robust demand for smart voice-based devices
MediaTek is likely to land handsome orders for smart voice service chipsets from Amazon as the web giant is extending its built-in Alexa smart voice software to a variety of devices...
Tuesday 25 September 2018
TSMC to set up new fab for advanced packaging
Taiwan's Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) has started its environmental impact assessment on land designated for construction of a new plant by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing...
Tuesday 25 September 2018
AMD may regain 30% global desktop CPU market share in 4Q18
After returning to profitability in 2017, AMD has continued gaining momentum to perform better in 2018, with its share price hitting a 12-year high recently and its global desktop...