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
Tsinghua Unigroup of mainland China announced on Dec. 11 to acquire a 24.9 percent holding in Siliconware Precision Industries Co., Ltd. (SPIL) and a 25 percent stake in ChipMOS Technologies (Bermuda) Ltd. for total cost of NT$68.8 billion ...
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The mainland company Unigroup's investment in Taiwan's semiconductor industry is purely commercial and should not be politicized, a mainland official said Wednesday. Unigroup, controlled by the prestigious Tsinghua University, is buying ...
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Hard disk drive (HDD) makers Western Digital and Seagate have announced their financial results for the third quarter and both makers are seeing their PC business revenue contributions weaken. PC HDDs only contributed about 34% of Western ...
Tags: HDD, PC, Seagate, storage, Western Digital
In response to China-based Tsinghua Unigroup's interest in combining its two subsidiary IC designers with Taiwan-based MediaTek, Acer founder Stan Shih said that China-based investment in Taiwan-based IC design houses is feasible as long as ...
Intel Capital is estimated to invest a total of US$500 million in 2015. Prior to the end of October, Intel Capital had already invested US$168 million in China and with a separate US$1 billion investment in the Tsinghua Unigroup, several ...
Tags: China, Dalian, foundry, Intel Capital, wafer
Like many startups, Haworth's first home was a garage. In 1948, company founder GW Haworth borrowed $10,000 from his folks to expand his woodworking business and Modern Products was born. In 1954, when a customer stopped in his office with ...
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