September 10, 2010 - Industry News
TSMC likely to post single-digit drop in 4Q10 revenues
With orders from China ahead of the nation's long holiday picking up recently, market watchers now expect Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing ...
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September 10, 2010 - Industry News
Second-hand equipment market to remain hot through 2011
Used semiconductor equipment has become a hot market, as companies look to expand their capacity at lower costs, or in the shortest time possible ...
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September 9, 2010 - Industry News
Second-hand equipment market to remain hot through 2011
Used semiconductor equipment has become a hot market, as companies look to expand their capacity at lower costs, or in the shortest time ...
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September 8, 2010 - Industry News
ASE revenues hit record for fourth straight month in August
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has posted consolidated revenues for August 2100, hitting a monthly record for the fourth consecutive ...
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September 8, 2010 - Industry News
Taiwan DRAM makers hampered by immersion scanner shortage
With a shortage on ASML's NXT:1950i, some Taiwan-based DRAM manufacturers will not receive shipments of the equipment for another 12 ...
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September 7, 2010 - Industry News
SPIL posts flat revenues in August
Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) saw sales stay almost flat sequentially in August 2010, according to data released by the company ...
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September 3, 2010 - Industry News
Micron likely to buy SMIC Wuhan plant
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is in talks with Micron Technology about taking over the operation of a 12-inch fab ...
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September 3, 2010 - Industry News
IC backend houses likely to post weaker-than-expected revenues
With Intel and several major IC designers having outlined a conservative outlook, industry watchers now expect most Taiwan-based packaging and ...
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September 2, 2010 - Industry News
HP may not see 2010 notebook shipments surpass 40 million units
Due to a strong nosedive in global consumer notebook demand, all the first-tier notebook vendors except Apple, reduced their notebook orders ...
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August 31, 2010 - Industry News
Chip sales remain strong despite slowdown worries
Global sales of semiconductors grew in July, up 1.2% from June and 37% from July 2009, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association ...
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August 26, 2010 - Industry News
Prices for analog-TV handset chips to continue to fall
Prices of analog TV handset chips are expected to fall below US$1.50 per unit in the near future due to increasing availability of the chip ...
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August 25, 2010 - Industry News
Applied Materials claims breakthrough in CVD for advanced chip designs
Applied Materials has unveiled a new chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technology capable of electrically isolating the densely-packed ...
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August 25, 2010 - Industry News
Lead time at 8-inch fabs drops to less than two weeks
Lead times at foundries are shrinking, with 8-inch manufacturing falling to less than two weeks compared to over 10 weeks earlier in 2010, according ...
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August 24, 2010 - Industry News
Lead time at 8-inch fabs drops to less than two weeks
Lead times at foundries are shrinking, with 8-inch manufacturing falling to less than two weeks compared to over 10 weeks earlier in 2010 ...
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August 24, 2010 - Industry News
ASE expects demand to follow seasonal patterns in 4Q10
The fourth quarter of 2010 should not be regarded as a slow quarter without taking into account seasonal factors, the Chinese-language ...
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August 24, 2010 - Industry News
Acer chairman expects iPad market share to drop to 20%
In a Chinese-language interview with the Economic Daily News (EDN), JT Wang, chairman of Acer, said that he expects Apple's iPad market share ...
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August 24, 2010 - Industry News
More module makers clear NAND flash inventory to channels
A stronger price drop took place at the NAND flash spot market amid inventory clearance among memory module houses. The spot price of 32Gb ...
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August 20, 2010 - Industry News
Nearly 139 million digital cameras to be shipped globally in 2010
The 2010 global shipments of digital cameras will increase 7.71% from 2009 to 138.78 million units, according to projection by Digitimes Research ...
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August 20, 2010 - Industry News
Orders from China and Japan trigger growth for TSMC, UMC
With more IDMs in Japan going fabless, and development of China's IC design industry rising toward maturity, industry watchers expect both Taiwan ...
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August 19, 2010 - Industry News
Orders from China and Japan trigger growth for TSMC, UMC
With more IDMs in Japan going fabless, and development of China's IC design industry rising toward maturity, industry watchers expect both Taiwan ...
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August 19, 2010 - Industry News
Japan chip gear book-to-bill climbs to 1.53 in July 2010
Japan-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted a book-to-bill ratio of 1.53 in July 2010, compared to 1.40 in the prior month ...
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August 18, 2010 - Industry News
Chip backend firms to see revenues rebound in August
Chip packagers Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL), and testing specialists King Yuan ...
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August 17, 2010 - Industry News
Distribution in the age of globalization: Q&A with Avnet's Roy Vallee
Despite the high-tech sounding name of electronics components distributor Avnet, the company was, in fact, originally a family run business ...
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August 13, 2010 - Industry News
Intel peak season strategy dampens channel notebook sales
Intel's strategy for the peak season in the third quarter of 2010 is dampening overall notebook sales in the channel, since Intel has ...
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August 13, 2010 - Industry News
SMIC denies report it will receive tens of millions from China govt
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) CEO David Wang has denied that the company is close to receiving tens of millions of ...
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