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| Silicon wafer supplier GlobalWafers reports net profits increased of 16.4% |
8/5/2021 |
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GlobalWafers registered consolidated revenues of NT$15.21 billion for the second quarter, up 2.7% sequentially and 11% on year, with the amount surpassing NT$30 billion in the first half, growing 10.3% on year. The company's net profits for the first half were NT$6.65 billion, up 5.8% on year.
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| TSMC is eyeing 2nm production for 5G |
8/5/2021 |
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“A strong roadmap is important for TSMC to maintain its foundry leadership and competitiveness. The company will see increased competition from Intel and Samsung foundries in the future."
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| Marvell Technology acquires Innovium for network technology |
8/5/2021 |
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This latest acquisition automatically drops Marvell into a market that the company said could grow at a 15% CAGR to $2 billion by 2026. Marvell said a Tier 1 cloud customer has already selected Innovium as a supplier, which the company said should lead to significant ramp in sales in 2022.
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| IC designers in Taiwan goes in alliance to stay competitive |
8/4/2021 |
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Facing increasing cost pressure on developing new-generation chip solutions, prompted them to form alliances with peers and partners in other semiconductor segments or integrate subsidiaries to build their own fleet of design forces, according to industry sources.
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| Toshiba offers 12 new motor control MCUs |
8/3/2021 |
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All of the products announced are based upon an ARM Cortex-M4 core with floating-point unit (FPU) and memory protection unit (MPU), running at speeds up to 160MHz.
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| Micron ships 176-layer NAND UFS 3.1 mobile memory |
8/2/2021 |
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Engineered for high-end and flagship phones, Micron’s discrete UFS 3.1 mobile NAND unlocks 5G’s potential with up to 75% faster sequential write and random read performance than prior generations, enabling downloads of two-hour 4K movies in as little as 9.6 seconds.
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| IC unit shipments to surge 21% in 2021 |
8/2/2021 |
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IC unit shipments for 2021 will reach 391.2 billion, more than 11 times the 34.1 billion units shipped over 30 years ago in 1990, IC Insights indicated.
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| STMicroelectronics see strong coming demand |
8/2/2021 |
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The second-quarter net revenues totaled $2.99 billion, up 43.4% year-over-year. The gross margin of 40.5% and operating margin of 16.3% improved from 35.0% and 5.1%, respectively. And the net income rose to $412 million.
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| Samsung post %8.3 billion profit |
7/30/2021 |
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Samsung Electronics’ operating profit in the second quarter soared 54.3 percent on-year to reach 12.5 trillion won ($10.9 billion), its best quarterly performance since the third quarter of 2018.
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| Qualcomm predicts IC shortage to end 2022 |
7/30/2021 |
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The company says it is having multiple vendors produce the same type of chip to boost its supply. Demand for Qualcomm’s products, however, is still outstripping its ability to supply them.
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| Advanced Micro Devices Inc forecast robust business |
7/29/2021 |
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Although, AMD has been more constrained than rivals like Intel Corp by supply chain bottlenecks, including a shortage of raw materials like substrates, it has averted damage to revenue by selling its higher-end chips used in servers, PCs and notebooks.
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| Many new consumer applications are to come with 5G |
7/29/2021 |
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Immersion can come, for example, from multi-view–angle technology and can find some interesting practical implementations. One is virtual shopping, which could revolutionize the retail customer experience. Another strong developmental focus is cloud gaming, for which consumers need access to powerful platforms and for which strong, fast, low-latency communication is required. 5G coverage is an essential enabler for this specific, high-value, and rapidly developing application.
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| Intel discloses its course over the next few years |
7/28/2021 |
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That’ll be five nodes taking Intel into 2025. The roadmap the company just announced includes a new transistor architecture — a gate all-around variant Intel calls the ribbonFET; a new interconnect technology called PowerVia that uses the back of the wafer; and the announcement that Intel is contributing to an evolution of EUV technology with lithography specialist ASML.
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