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Fab Toolmakers Target Advanced-Node Production

Apr 13, 2017

Naura Technology (formerly Beijing Sevenstar Electronics) has started shipping ion etch equipment for the manufacture of 14nm chips to chipmakers, while Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment (AMEC) is being engaged in the development of etch ...

Tags: chipmakers, Electronics, chip

Moore's Law and China's Fast-Growing IC Industry

Mar 20, 2017

At Semicon China 2017, executives at chip giant Intel, IC packager Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, equipment vendors ASML, Lam Research and Tokyo Electron (TEL), and nano-electronics research institute Imec talked about innovation to ...

Tags: IC, Semiconductor, IC Industry

China to Enhance Its Fabless IC Design Industry

Mar 18, 2017

The "Made in China 2025" (MIC 2025) plan, published by the China State Council in May of 2015, has demonstrated the country's ambition to enhance its fabless IC design industry in terms of market share and technology capability. Major ...

Tags: IC design, mobile device, PC

Taiwan's Export Orders Continue Shrinking in May

Jun 23, 2016

Taiwan’s overall export orders in May totaled US$33.73 billion, down 5.8 percent year on year (photo courtesy of UDN.com).Taiwan's export orders received in May totaled US$33.73 billion, down 5.8 percent year on year to represent the ...

Tags: devaluation policy, export orders, global economic

New TSMC Fab to Target Orders for Driver ICs

Dec 13, 2015

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) planned 12-inch wafer fab in China could be vying for 16nm chip orders from China's local IC design houses specializing in the development of LCD driver ICs, touchscreen controllers, TDDI ...

Tags: IC industry, LCD driver

More China Firms Developing Own ARM-Based Chips

Nov 29, 2015

China-based ZTE has received a cash injection from the government enabling the company to accelerate the development of its own application processors, while Lenovo also intends to develop ARM-based chips in-house, according to industry ...

Tags: ARM-Based Chips, IC Industry

Lattice Power CTO: Low and Mid-Power LED Chip Becomes Major Trend in the Industry

Nov 12, 2015

The LED industry is gradually maturing in 2015, with products cost/performance (C/P) ratio becoming increasingly important. Low and mid-power flip chip products are increasingly valued by the industry. To further understand this trend ...

Tags: LED industry, LED chip, Chip Scale Packaging

Plessey Integrates Optics into GaN-on-Silicon CSP LEDs

Oct 14, 2015

Plessey announced that it has developed a patented technology for Chip Scale Optics (CSO) based on its award winning GaN-on-Silicon MaGIC ™ LEDs. Chip Scale Optics permits design of light emission angles down to ten degrees direct ...

Tags: LED optics, Plessey, GaN-on-Si, LED components, CSP LED

LCD Driver IC Revenue to Decrease Over 10% in 4Q15

Oct 10, 2015

LCD driver IC design specialists including Novatek Microelectronics, Himax Technologies, Sitronix Technology, Fitipower Integrated Technology, Raydium Semiconductor and FocalTech Systems have internally revised downward their business ...

Tags: LCD driver, IC Industry

Plessey's Chip-Scale Optics for for GaN-on-Si LEDs Cuts Cost and Increases Design Flexibility

Sep 23, 2015

UK-based Plessey has developed a patented technology for chip-scale optics (CSO) based on its gallium nitride on silicon MaGIC (Manufactured on GaN-on-Si I/C) LEDs. Chip-scale optics permits the design of light emission angles down to ...

Tags: Plessey, GaN-on-Si LEDs, silicon, CSO technology

China Pushes for Homegrown Display Driver IC

Aug 24, 2015

China is looking to build a homegrown panel-use driver IC industry in Hefei, China, which will likely threaten Taiwan's IC driver IC sector, according to industry sources. The China government's push to establish the local display driver ...

Tags: Driver IC, LCD, LCD Panel

Falling Product ASPs and Gross Margins Will Erode Taiwan's Fabless IC Firms' Profitability

Jul 2, 2015

Falling product ASPs and gross margins are set to erode Taiwan's fabless IC firms' profitability in 2015, according to industry sources. Foundry chipmakers have seen their production capacities stay loose thus far in 2015, said the ...

Tags: fabless IC, IC industry

China's Policies to Drive China IC Design Growth

Feb 27, 2015

China's government policies for supporting the local IC design industry have put less emphasis on intervention measures such as offering tax breaks, providing direct financial support, and making purchases of domestic products, while ...

Tags: IC Design, IC Industry

Intel Corp See Nothing out of The Ordinary in Chip Industry

Oct 22, 2014

Did Microchip Technology get ahead of itself last week by suggesting that its downward revenue forecast was a negative bellwether for the whole semiconductor market? Or is there a macro-economic weakness, foreshadowed by Microchip, that ...

Tags: IC Industry, Microchip

Fund Set up to Support Development of IC Industry

Aug 28, 2014

The CNY120 billion (US$19.5 billion) investment fund set up by the China government in 2014 to support development of its IC industry reportedly has begun looking for investment targets, according to industry sources. China-based chip ...

Tags: IC Industry, 4G Chip, IC

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