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Major Foundries Ready to Battle for a Share of China’s Fast-Growing IC Market
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Published: Oct 20,2015
Mentor Graphics Veloce VirtuaLAB Adds Next-Generation Protocols
CALIFORNIA, USA — Mentor Graphics Corp., on Octorber 19 announced the Veloce VirtuaLAB Ethernet environment with support for 25G, 50G and 100G Ethernet. This support enables highly efficient, emulation-based verification for the massive Ethernet-based designs being created today...
200mm Wafer Fab Capacity Forecast to 5.4 Million wspm in 2018
According to a lastest report, from SEMI, worldwide 200mm semiconductor wafer fab capacity is forecast at 5.2 million wafer starts per month (wspm) in 2015 and expanding to 5.4 million wspm in 2018. Based on the rapidly increasing number of internet-enabled mobile devices and the emergence of the IoT (Internet of Things), demand for sensors, MEMS, analog, power and related semiconductor devices is growing...
TSMC: Fabless Inventory May Back to Seasonal Level in This Year
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (TSMC) at an investor update announced that although global semiconductor inventory reserves in the third quarter remained higher than normal for about 10 days and the market is still digesting the inventory, it is possible that they will return to normal levels at the end of the year...
Groundbreaking for Powerchip 12-inch Fab In China Tomorrow
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Powerchip Technology Corporation and Hefei City government of Anhui Provence have sealed a joint venture to Jinghe IC 12-inch Fab, which is going to start building tomorrow and likely kick off massive production in 2017...
Taiwan D-School Opens to Educate Innovative Talents
TAIPEI, Taiwan - D-School, a new educational institution of National Taiwan University, last week was officially opened. The new institution will set up innovations related courses to educate Taiwan students to have the professional abilities of cooperation and implement...
To set up a 12-inch Wafer Foundry in China? TSMC: Never Comment on Speculation
TAIPEI, Taiwan — It is widely circulated that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is going to set up a wholly-owned 12-inch wafter foundry in Nanjing, China in an attempt to actively pursue 16nm FinFET chip production...