Imec.xpand, an independent global venture capital fund, today announced the launch of a new EUR 300 million fund aimed at accelerating the growth of transformative semiconductor and nanotechnology innovations.
Qualcomm's first-quarter fiscal report has signaled an ongoing recovery in smartphone demand, with robust demand in the high-end Chinese smartphone market.
SK Hynix recently held a press conference to unveil its development blueprint for HBM4, scheduled for mass production in 2025, a year ahead of the original plan, to maintain its technological leadership in the High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) market.
Counterpoint released the global foundry market share ranking for the fourth quarter of 2023, showing that TSMC maintained its leadership status with a 61% market share driven by strong demand from AI and the restocking of smartphones.
AMD challenges Nvidia's dominance in the AI market with its Instinct MI300 accelerator which has been well-received by the market. However, since Nvidia's next-generation Blackwell platform is priced lower than expected, how would that impact AMD?
The potential of advanced packaging technology to upgrade chip performance has attracted many Japanese equipment and material suppliers to allocate their resources in this highly specialized field to gain their entry into the high-margin market of advanced chips and Chiplet.
Against the backdrop of a secular slowdown in economic growth and a real-estate bubble burst that added debt burdens, how much longer can China continue to subsidize its industries and realize the dream of building a self-sufficient semiconductor supply chain?
Taiwan's top memory backend specialist Powertech Technology (PTI) has decided to sharply raise its capital expenditure for 2024 from the original NT$10 billion (US$307.22 million) to NT$15 billion, some 60% of which will be used for High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) products to capture lucrative opportunities in AI applications, according to company sources.
Micron, the first major chipmaker to set up an ATMP facility in India, provides a later-than-expected timeline for shipping its first made-in-India product, which is most expected to be exported rather than catering to domestic needs.
PSMC, a Taiwan-based semiconductor foundry service provider, inaugurates its first 12-inch wafer fab in Miaoli, Taiwan on May 2. At the ceremony venue, PSMC chairman Frank Huang said the new fab has received interposer orders from a big American customer and will be a supplier to applications such as TSMC's Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate (CoWoS).
Despite setbacks, particularly the breakup with Foxconn, the debt-laden Vedanta Group is still keen on semiconductor and display forays, which was seen as a strategy to deal with the group's financial stress. The prospect of Vedanta's display fab proposal with Innolux remains to be seen.
In the wake of the Ukraine War, the ripple effects are felt far beyond the Eastern European theater. As China and Iran throw their weight behind Russia, the landscape of global commerce undergoes seismic shifts.
Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT), an IC test interface solutions provider, is optimistic about demand spurred by AI servers and smartphones and projects a surge in probe card orders in the second half of 2024.
In response to the flourishing development and expanding applications of AI, a race to acquire the most AI servers between China's trio of telecom giants has been ignited.
With the destocking of Microcontroller Unit (MCU) inventories ending, Holtek Semiconductor believes the worst is over for MCUs and has seen its on-hand orders for the second quarter stabilize.
Chipbond Technology, a semiconductor backend house with a strong focus on Display Driver ICs (DDI), expects demand to improve in the second quarter of 2024 although order momentum was weak in the previous quarter, according to company chairman Fei-Jain Wu.
On May 2, Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (PSMC) held the grand opening ceremony for its new Tongluo Fab at the Miaoli Tongluo Science Park.
Thanks to the server supply chain shift out of China due to the US-China trade conflicts, Taiwan's computer production value has grown significantly over the past 5 years. Although China remains the biggest production site of Notebook PCs (NB), manufacturers of high-end servers have returned to Taiwan.
SK Hynix held a press conference on May 2 at its headquarters in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province, to reveal details of its investment plans for the M15X fab in Cheongju and the Yongin Semiconductor Cluster in South Korea, as well as advanced packaging facilities in Indiana, the US. Company CEO Kwak Noh-Jung disclosed during the conference that SK Hynix has already sold out of its HBM memory production for this year and is almost sold out for 2025.
Taiwan-based Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) has reported first-quarter 2024 results that were somewhat better than expected. While facing market pricing competition from China, the 8-inch pure-play foundry has acquired shifted orders.
In the first quarter of 2024, Samsung Electronics successfully turned a profit in its semiconductor business due to increased demand for AI-related memory. Coupled with the sales growth of the Galaxy S24 series, the outstanding performances from these two sectors led to a revenue return to the KRW70 trillion level (approx. US$50.85 billion) after 5 quarters.
