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Get a Free Subscription to Semiconductor Packaging News More from Digitimes 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 ... Digitimes 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, ... Digitimes 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. ... Digitimes 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 ... Digitimes 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 ... Digitimes 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 ... Digitimes 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 ... Digitimes 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 ... Digitimes 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 ... Digitimes 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 ... Digitimes 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%, ... Digitimes 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 ... Digitimes 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 ... Digitimes 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 ... Digitimes 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 ... Digitimes 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)... Digitimes 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 ... Digitimes 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 ... Digitimes 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 ... Digitimes 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 ... Digitimes 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 ... Digitimes 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 ... Digitimes 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 ... Digitimes 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 ... Digitimes 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, ... Digitimes To find more articles from Digitimes, use the search form below. Semicon West: Infinite Possibilities Important decisions on the future of microelectronics will be made at SEMICON West this July. 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