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Kioxia has begun operating two new R&D facilities in Japan - the Flagship Building at the Yokohama Technology Campus and the Shin-Koyasu Technology Front - bolstering the company's R&D capabilities in flash memory and solid-state drives (SSD), according to the…

A US$10 billion push to make semiconductors in India is on shaky ground.

Samsung Electronics has announced on June 2 its participation as a steering board member in the RISC-V Software Ecosystem (RISE) project initiated by the Linux Foundation Europe. The new project, launched on May 31, aims to foster collaboration among software…

Japan's Fujifilm Holdings has disclosed plans to invest NT$3.38 billion (US$110 million) to bolster production of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) slurry and lithography-related materials in Taiwan to better serve its semiconductor customers.

Samsung Display (SDC) has disclosed plans to invest KRW4.1 trillion (US$3.1 billion) in building 8.6G IT-use OLED panel production lines by 2026, but tight supply of the core evaporation equipment and exorbitant quotes from the main supplier Canon Tokki may…

In line with the mega trend of intelligence and edge AI applications, Taiwan's MCU makers are focusing on the development of MCUs integrated with AI to explore the AI MCU business opportunities and create more new edge AI markets and applications, according to…

Taiwan-based electronics ODM Qisda, with businesses spanning across IT, medical solutions, smart solutions, and network communications, expects its shipments of AIoT systems to grow by a middle or even high double digit on the AI whirlwind brought by Nvidia…

Broadcom said it also hopped on the bandwagon of the AI boom, predicting its AI revenue share would more than double in the coming years.

The state government of Karnataka in southern India announced that Foxconn would make iPhones there as the world's largest electronics manufacturer embarks on a series of investments in India amid global supply chain diversification.

After months of negotiations, Taiwan and the U.S. signed the first agreement under the U.S.-Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century Trade on June 1 in Washington D.C. It outlines practices and procedures aimed at streamlining and strengthening trade relations. Both…

Chinese memory module company Techwinsemi Technology plans to enhance its outsourcing business in Taiwan, looking to expand its supplier list to include flash controller vendors and backend service houses.

The global LCD panel industry will likely see its output value continue to decline in 2023 after suffering a setback in the previous year when the industry's capacity utilization fell sharply due to the impacts of the pandemic, war and rising inflation,…

Smartphones shipped to the China market shrank to only 62 million units in the first quarter of 2023, down 12.4% sequentially and 7.2% on year, but the volumes in the second quarter are expected to stay at about the same level as in the first, according to…

Keysight Technologies, dedicated to supplying electronics test/measurement equipment and software, has recently become a member of the TSMC Open Innovation Platform (OIP) 3D Fabric Alliance formed to accelerate 3D IC ecosystem innovation and readiness. The…

PCB maker Apex International expects to post a 20-30% revenue increase in 2024, with increased sales of automotive boards to serve as the growth driver.

The in-house chip development programs of leading Chinese smartphone makers has been under spotlight. On May 31st, Huawei-spinoff smartphone brand Honor set up a wholly-owned subsidiary Shanghai Honor Smart Technology Development Co. (temporary translation),…

According to Toyota's statement, the company further expanded its investments in the US amid increasing demand for EVs and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that mandates automakers to meet local sourcing requirements to be eligible for incentives.

Although the inventory reduction of the PC supply chain is coming to an end, the market remains cautious about the second half of 2023.

The incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) into audio processors is gaining traction and is becoming more and more necessary for PC applications, according to Cirrus Logic, a US-based audio and visual analog IC designer.

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has announced its latest fan-out-chip-on-substrate-bridge (FOCoS-Bridge) technology innovation, which involved qualifying a large 70x78mm package containing two ASICs and eight HBM devices connected by eight silicon…

According to South Korean media Businesskorea, Intel is planning to establish a lab dedicated to data center development in Seoul, South Korea. The company will collaborate with South Korean memory manufacturers Samsung and SK Hynix to research server memory…

Taiwan's semiconductor supply chain has "fine-tuned" production plans for a major artificial intelligence (AI) chip client in order to satisfy demand in time, according to industry sources.

Memory chipmakers have shown downstream customers that they will no longer sell at low prices, while module manufacturers with high levels of inventory are eager to see spot market prices stabilize, according to industry sources.

Supermicro is expanding production capacity at its factory sites in the US, Taiwan, and the Netherlands to meet the rising demand for AI servers, according to founder and company CEO Charles Liang.

MediaTek is partnering with Nvidia to boost its competitiveness in the automotive IC market versus Qualcomm, but Qualcomm believes its extended deployment in the industry will keep it competitive.

The recent surge in generative AI will drive the rigid demand for PCs, a positive development for the PC industry, according to Acer chairman and CEO Jason Chen.

Nvidia's next-generation AI chip will continue to be manufactured by TSMC, said company CEO Jensen Huang in response to market concerns regarding the processor vendor's partnership with the pure-play foundry.

Taiwan's leading IC substrate maker Unimicron Technology will invest NT$30 billion (US$981.03 million) to set up a new plant in Taiwan dedicated to production of IC substrates with high layer count and large area to cash in on the ever-expanding AI…

With the Ukraine war, global inflation, and geopolitical tensions, consumer electronics sales plunged, which further caused a decrease in semiconductor sales. Given the weakened demand for chips, DIGITIMES Research projects a 9.2% decline in global foundry…

Smartphones shipped to the China market shrank to only 62 million units in the first quarter of 2023, down 12.4% sequentially and 7.2% on year, but the volumes in the second quarter are expected to stay at about the same level as in the first.