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Nordic Semiconductor Adds Avnet Japan to Its Asian Distributor Network
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Published: Dec 03,2015
Mark Liu: TSMC and the Industry Will do Better in 2016
TAIPEI, Taiwan — TSMC held its 15th annual Supply Chain Management forum in Hsinchu today to show appreciation for the support and contributions of its suppliers in 2015. The company’s President and Co-Chief Executive Officer Mark Liu stated that 2015 is nothing but a bear market in the semiconductor industry, however, “TSMC will do better in 2016...
Samsung is the Cause for Skymedi Laid off 70% of Workforce
TAIPEI, Taiwan — NAND flash controller chip vendor and storage solution supplier, Skymedi Co. confirmed to laid off 60 to 70 percent of its workforce as of the end of November to reduce costs and plans to raise funds by launching a private placement next year, the company spokesperson said Thursday...
TrendForce: BOE, Corning to Build the World’s Largest Gen-10.5 LCD Panel Fab in China
According to TrendForcce that the largest Chinese LCD panel maker, BOE Technology Group (BOE), formally announced on December 2 that it is commencing the building of its Gen-10.5 LCD panel fabrication plant in the Chinese city of Hefei...
WLAN Market Shows Slowing Growth in Third Quarter of 2015, IDC Says
According to International Data Corporation (IDC ), the combined consumer and enterprise worldwide wireless local area network (WLAN) market segments increased 2.1% year over year in the third quarter of 2015 (3Q15). The enterprise segment's growth rebounded slightly from the low single digit growth of the last two quarters, increasing 4...
Top 10 Fabless Companies Expected to Slip into Negative Growth this Year
IC Insights forecasted that sales of top 10 IDMs forecast to be flat; top 10 fabless companies expected to slip into negative growth this year. IC Insights pionted that fabless semiconductor company sales growth versus IDM (integrated device manufacturers) semiconductor supplier growth has typically been very different ...
Facebook Is Considering to Establish Data Center In Taiwan
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Facebook, the world’s largest online social network, is considering to setup a data center in Taiwan, at an expected investment cost of 10 billion. Following Google, Facebook intend to build up a data center in Changhua county, Taiwan...