Compared with Taiwan’s relatively minor annual growth of 9.4% in machine tool exports in the first half, South Korean machine tool export revenue reached NT$38.3 billion (US$1.31 billion), soaring 30.4% year on year (YoY), primarily ...
Tags: market view, Machine Tool
Taipei, Oct. 29, 2012 (CENS)--Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) on Oct. 23 bought for over NT$3.2 billion (US$106 million) 14.32 hectares of land at the Jhunan Park, an extension of the Hsinchu Science Park in northern Taiwan, ...
Tags: TSMC, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., chip, Intel, Samsung
Kalray has completed the design of a three billion transistor processor array and it used a Mentor Graphics functional verification, physical design and verification, and design-for-test flow. The France-based fabless semiconductor ...
Tags: Transistor, transistor processor array, semiconductor, MPPA-256 processor
Taipei, Oct. 26, 2012 (CENS)--Morris Chang, chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (TSMC), the leading contract IC maker in the world, pointed out yesterday (Oct. 25) that the global economy is still situated in a spot where ...
Tags: TSMC, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., Semiconductor, IC
Taipei, Oct. 25, 2012 (CENS)--Market research firm Gartner predicts Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) to likely take over all of Apple's processor contracts from Samsung by 2014. During a recently held forum on semiconductor ...
Tags: TSMC, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Apple's processor, Samsung
Taipei, Oct. 23, 2012 (CENS)--The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) announced yesterday (Oct. 22) greatly raising the offsetting quota for margin trading and short sales by increasing the ceiling for margin trading by 50%, so as to ...
Tags: FSC, investors, stock market, securities firms
NXP Semiconductors will move more than a third of its chip production to foundry within three years,according to company CEO,Rick Clemmer. "We will use foundries for 35%of production by 2015 as more of our products move to 40nm ...
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Taipei,Oct.18,2012--Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.(TSMC)has set up complete manufacturing eco system for Apple's application-specific IC(ASIC)contracts,in which Intel Corp.is also reportedly interested,according to Taiwan's industry ...
Tags: TSMC, Apple, ASIC order, chips
Altera outgrew the semiconductor industry by almost 2x over the last four years and outgrew the ASSP market by 3x,says John Daane,CEO of Altera. The driver of Altera's growth is the increasing cost of ASSP."Companies are spending$100m to ...
On a three-month average basis,North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$1.12 billion in orders worldwide and a book-to-bill(B/B)ratio of 0.84 in August 2012,the new low so far this year. SEMI(Semiconductor ...
Tags: NA B/B ratio hits, low, SEMI, the semiconductor capital equipment
The process technology gap between the top foundries and the others is a enormousa,says IC Insights. Only four companies out of 18 pure-play foundries can make leading edge ICs and only four others have a 90nm capability. a In 2012,TSMC ...
Tags: IC, TSMC, UMC, SMIC, FinFET IC technology, Electrical&Electronics
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.(TSMC)and Kinsus Interconnect Technology Co.,Ltd.would become the primary winners of Apple's added contracts for iPhone 5 chips,according to industry sources. Apple's supply chains have reportedly ...
Driven by market demand, the semiconductor industry progressed toward consensus on building-block standards for automating LED production on 6-in wafers at the Semicon West conference, explains PAULA DOE. ...
Tags: LED
The race to manufacture the most power-efficient and fastest chips is gaining momentum, with contract chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries on Thursday announcing technology advances that analysts said could allow the company to catch ...
Tags: Chip Manufacturing, Intel, ARM, US
Taipei,Sept.19,2012(CENS)--The top-five contract notebook PC assemblers in Taiwan,Compal Electronics Inc.,Quanta,Inventec Corp.,Wistron Corp.,and Pegatron Corp., posted earnings of NT$22.2 billion(US$740 million)in the first half,of which ...