March 9, 2010 - Industry News
ASE February 2010 revenues up on month, but SPIL down
IC packaging and testing house Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has announced revenues for February 2010 grew 1.1% sequentially to ...
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March 9, 2010 - Industry News
LCD driver IC makers see stronger demand for large-size products
Sales of large-size LCD driver ICs were stronger compared with small-size products in February 2010 thanks to demand from the LCD TV segment, ...
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March 8, 2010 - Industry News
LCD monitor shipments increase 3.8% in 2009, says iSuppli
Global LCD monitor shipments increased by 3.8% in 2009 to 176.5 million units, up from 170.1 million units in 2008, according to iSuppli. ...
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March 5, 2010 - Industry News
TSMC, UMC wafer production in southern Taiwan affected by quake
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and United Microelectronics Corporation have both disclosed the impact of a 6.4-magnitude earthquake ...
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March 5, 2010 - Industry News
Apple iPad may delay transition to SSD, say hard drive makers
The appearance of Apple's iPad may create tight supply of NAND flash and delay the transition to solid-state drives (SSD) in PCs, according to ...
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March 5, 2010 - Industry News
IC design houses placing more wafer orders at second-tier or China-based foundries
Some Taiwan-based vendors of LCD driver ICs, analog ICs and CMOS sensors are increasing their orders for wafer starts at second-tier foundries or ...
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March 4, 2010 - Industry News
IC design houses placing more wafer orders at second-tier or China-based foundries
Some Taiwan-based vendors of LCD driver ICs, analog ICs and CMOS sensors are increasing their orders for wafer starts at second-tier foundries ...
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March 4, 2010 - Industry News
Memory backend houses seeing strong demand for DDR3 chips
Powertech Technology (PTI), Walton Advanced Engineering (WAE) and Thailin Semiconductor are all expected to see a strong March, as the memory ...
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March 4, 2010 - Industry News
Prices of 8- and 12-inch wafers to rise in 2Q10, says paper
Major blank wafer suppliers including Shin-Etsu Handotai (SEH), Sumitomo Mitsubishi Silicon Corporation (Sumco) and MEMC Electronic Materials ...
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March 4, 2010 - Industry News
Rumor says Ralink and TrendChip to merge
Ralink Technology may merge with TrendChip Technologies, according to market rumors. Both companies declined to comment on the speculation, while ...
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March 3, 2010 - Industry News
SAS sees tight supply of semiconductor wafers
Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) has seen supply of small- and medium-size semiconductor-use silicon wafers exceed demand by over 30%, ...
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March 3, 2010 - Industry News
Consumer IC design houses to see strong 1Q10
Sonix Technology, Holtek Semiconductor and Weltrend Semiconductor may report sequential drops in February revenues, but are expected to see ...
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March 2, 2010 - Industry News
Seasonality not impacting 1Q10 revenues as much as expected,
King Yuan Electronics, Sigurd Microelectronics and Ardentec all expect their first-quarter revenues to stay flat or drop by single digits ...
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March 2, 2010 - Industry News
January chip sales up on month, says SIA
Worldwide semiconductor sales in January 2010 were up, an increase of 0.3% from December sales, according to the Semiconductor Industry ...
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March 1, 2010 - Industry News
SPIL to drop out from LCD driver IC, DRAM segments
Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) has announced that it will take a 15.8% stake in ChipMOS Technologies in exchange for all of its of LCD ...
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February 26, 2010 - Industry News
MediaTek to lower wafer starts at foundries by 10-20%, says paper
MediaTek will reduce its wafer starts at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC)...
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February 26, 2010 - Industry News
Microchip increases offer for acquisition of Silicon Storage
Microchip Technology has announced that it has entered into an amendment to its February 2, 2010 definitive agreement to acquire Silicon Storage ...
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February 25, 2010 - Industry News
Silicon wafer shipments bounce back in 2H09, says SEMI
Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments decreased by 18% in 2009 when compared to 2008 area shipments, according to SEMI. The slide indicates ...
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February 25, 2010 - Industry News
Networking device makers suffering component shortages
Networking equipment makers with factories in eastern and southern China are facing a shortage in the supply of key components because labor ...
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February 25, 2010 - Industry News
Intel updates notebook and desktop lineups
Intel plans to announce a new notebook platform – Huron River – in the first quarter of 2011 as well as launching several new desktop CPUs ...
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February 24, 2010 - Industry News
Foundries to see 12-inch wafer supply exceed demand in 2012
With major foundry chipmakers gearing up for capacity expansions at their 12-inch (300mm) facilities, Nobunaga Chai, an analyst at Digitimes ...
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February 23, 2010 - Industry News
163 million smartbooks expected to ship in 2015
ABI Research expects 163 million smartbooks will ship worldwide in 2015 – a significant rate of growth given that the very first models only ...
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February 23, 2010 - Industry News
PSC reportedly decided on new China fab
DRAM maker Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) has decided to resume its China fab project, and selected Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province as the ...
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February 23, 2010 - Industry News
Digital power ICs represent high growth opportunities for IC vendors and wafer foundries, says Petrov Group
After decades of missed predictions and hype, the market for digital power ICs has now entered a high-growth stage driven by new applications and ...
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February 22, 2010 - Industry News
TSMC spends almost NT$4 billion during Lunar break
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has announced separate equipment purchases from Lam Research, Tokyo Electron, ASML, Ebara, ...
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