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eMemory Receives ISSCC Award for Breakthrough Security Technology (2019.02.19)
HISNCHU, Taiwan – eMemory’s chip-embedded security IP received the Takuo Sugano Award for Outstanding Far-East Paper at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC).
The company received the honor at the flagship conference of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society February 18th in San Francisco for its paper “A PUF Scheme Using Competing Oxide Rupture with Bit Error Rate Approaching Zero” |
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China IC Production Forecast to Show a Strong 15% 2018-2023 CAGR (2019.02.11)
China has been the largest consuming country for ICs since 2005, but large increases in IC production within China have not immediately followed, according to data presented in the new 500-page 2019 edition of IC Insights’ McClean Report—A Complete Analysis and Forecast of the Integrated Circuit Industry (released in January 2019) |
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NARLabs Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute Officially Open (2019.01.31)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - NARLabs Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute on January 30 was formally unveiled as the world’s only national science and technology research and development center which integrates integrated circuit design, chip offline manufacturing, and semiconductor component manufacturing process research |
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SEMI: Annual Silicon Shipments Hit Record High, Exceeds $10 Billion (2019.01.31)
Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments in 2018 increased 8 percent year-over-year to a record high, while 2018 worldwide silicon revenue jumped 31 percent during the same period, topping the $10 billion mark for the first time since 2008, reported the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) in its year-end analysis of the silicon wafer industry |
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Semiconductor Unit Shipments Exceeded 1 Trillion Devices in 2018 (2019.01.25)
Annual semiconductor unit shipments, including integrated circuits and optoelectronics, sensors, and discrete (O-S-D) devices grew 10% in 2018 and surpassed the one trillion unit mark for the first time, based on data presented in the new, 2019 edition of IC Insights’ McClean Report—A Complete Analysis and Forecast of the Integrated Circuit Industry |
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Revenue Growth in China's Semiconductor Industry Would Slow Down to 16.2% in 2019 due to Pessimistic (2019.01.24)
According to the latest report by TrendForce - Breakdown Analysis of China’s Semiconductor Industry, the outlook for China’s semiconductor industry has been tampered since the second half of 2018 due to pessimistic economy worldwide and uncertainties brought by the China-U |
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TSMC Keeps Attacking Advanced Process Despite The Headwind (2019.01.18)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - The growth of the semiconductor industry is to be very conservative in 2019. TSMC said in its four-quarter investor conference that the global semiconductor market growth would be only increased 1% while foundry will remain flat, and TSMC will higher than the average |
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Value of Semiconductor Mergers and Acquisitions Falls Considerably (2019.01.18)
IC Insights noted that the historic flood of merger and acquisition agreements that swept through the semiconductor industry in 2015 and 2016 slowed significantly in 2017 and then eased back further in 2018, but the total value of M&A deals reached in the last year was still nearly more than twice the annual average during the first half of this decade |
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IC Insights: Top 10 Companies Held 60% of Worldwide Semiconductor Market in 2018 (2019.01.15)
According to IC Insights’ new McClean Report that the world’s leading semiconductor suppliers significantly increased their marketshare over the past decade. The top 5 semiconductor suppliers accounted for 47% of the world’s semiconductor sales in 2018, an increase of 14 percentage points from 10 years earlier |
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Flash Memory Remains Primary Target for Capex Spending (2019.01.14)
IC Insights said that the semiconductor industry is expected to allocate the largest portion of its capex spending for flash memory again in 2019, marking the third consecutive year that flash has led all other segments in spending |
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Faraday Unveils ASIC Success in Factory Automation (2019.01.10)
HSINCHU, Taiwan - Faraday Technology Corporation today announced that it has won and delivered several factory automation (FA) related ASIC projects, supporting real-time Ethernet, EtherCAT, Profibus, and PLC controllers. In each case, Faraday employs its value-added ASIC and IP customization service for power-performance optimization and product lifecycle management to meet factory automation needs within Industry 4 |
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IC Insights: Cryptocurrency Boom Helped China’s Pure-play Foundry Market Surge 41% in 2018 (2019.01.09)
IC Insights pointed that with the recent rise of the fabless IC companies in China, the demand for foundry services has also risen in that country. In total, pure-play foundry sales in China jumped by 30% in 2017 to $7.6 billion, triple the 9% increase for the total pure-play foundry market that year |
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TSMC 3-nm Fab Environmental Assessment Approved, to Commence in 2020 (2018.12.20)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan's Environmental Administration yesterday approved the environmental assessment for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited's (TSMC) 3-nanometer factory, signifying that TSMC's 3-nm factory will be able to commence operations on schedule in 2020 with total investment amounting to NT $600 billion |
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eMemory’s Reprogrammable NeoMTP Qualified on GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ 130nm BCDLite and BCD Technology (2018.12.17)
HSINCHU, Taiwan–eMemory today announced that its NeoMTP, Multiple-Times-Programmable embedded non-volatile memory (NVM) IP, has been qualified on GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) 130nm BCDLite and BCD process technology platforms targeting both consumer power management and automotive AEC-Q100 Grade-1 compliant applications |
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Faraday Reveals Its Multi-protocol Video Interface IP on UMC 28HPC (2018.12.11)
HSINCHU, Taiwan - Faraday Technology today announced the availability of its multi-protocol video interface IP on UMC 28nm HPC. The solution supports both transmitter (TX) and receiver (RX) featuring a reduced silicon footprint ideal for state-of-the-art panel and sensor interfaces, projectors, MFP, DSC, surveillance, AR and VR, and AI applications |
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TSMC to Build a New 200mm Fab for Customized Design; 5-nm to Enter Trial Production Next Year (2018.12.07)
TAIPEI, Taiwan - C.C. Wei, CEO and vice chairman of TSMC, said at its supply chain management forum held in Hsinchu, Taiwan, that TSMC's 5nm process is expected to enter trial production in the second quarter of next year. In addition, TSMC will establish a new 8-inch(200mm) fab to meet the requirements of the customized design |
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TSIA: AI Will Drive Continual Prosperous Development of Taiwan’s IC Industry (2018.11.28)
HSINCHU, Taiwan - Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA) in Hsinchu held the 2018 Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Convention, which was hosted by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC) CEO and Vice Chairman C |
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IC Insights Announces Top-15 2018 Semi Suppliers Forecast; Samsung Ranks NO.1 (2018.11.13)
IC Insights today released its forecast of top-15 worldwide semiconductor (IC and O-S-D—optoelectronic, sensor, and discrete) sales ranking for 2018. It includes seven suppliers headquartered in the U.S., three in Europe, two each in South Korea and Japan, and one in Taiwan |
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IC Insights: Quarterly YoY Growth Slows Substantially for IC Market (2018.11.02)
IC Insights pointed that IC market is expected to enter a period of cyclical “cooling” after an extended period of very strong growth.
Figure illustrates the worldwide quarterly year-over-year IC market increases from 1Q through 3Q and IC Insights’ forecast for 4Q of this year |
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Samsung Electronics Starts Production of EUV-Based 7nm LPP Process (2018.10.18)
Samsung Electronics today announced that it has completed all process technology development and has started wafer production of its revolutionary process node, 7LPP, the 7-nanometer (nm) LPP (Low Power Plus) with extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology |
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