
Total Foundry Revenue to Undergo Single-Digit Growth in 2020, Owing to COVID-19
According to the latest investigations by TrendForce, if the COVID-19 pandemic were to cause a break in the semiconductor supply chain, the industry would then be confronted with operational difficulties; the pandemic-induced decline in commercial and social activities may also potentially push back or even lower the traditional strong seasonality, thus affecting the foundry industry’s magnitude of revenue growth in 2020...

MOST and SmartLabs Cooperate Together to Fight COVID-19
TAIPEI, Taiwan - The Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) cooperates with SmartLabs to kick-off the “SmartLabs Global Launch” program. SmartLabs is an international biomedical accelerator based on the Taiwan Hsinchu Biomedical Science Park...

Financial Services Sector to Benefit from Southeast Asia and Taiwan 4.3% GDP Growth Amidst COVID-19
Despite the numerous economic challenges the region is facing in 2020, the digital financial services industry is in an extremely strong position to offer highly relevant products which sufficiently meets the social and physical restrictions enforced on most of the population...

IC Unit Shipments Forecast to Display First-Ever Back-to-Back Decline
IC Insights forecasts that worldwide IC unit shipments will register their first-ever back-to-back annual decline in 2020. From 2013 through 2018, IC unit shipments were on a respectable growth path with an 8% increase logged in 2013, a 9% jump registered in 2014, a 5% increase displayed in 2015, a 7% increase shown in 2016, a double-digit growth rate of 15% in 2017, and a 10% increase in 2018...

Competition in NAND Flash Market to Intensify in 2021 as YMTC Unveils 128L Products on Schedule
According to the DRAMeXchange research division of TrendForce, Chinese NAND Flash manufacturer YMTC submitted samples of its 128L 3D NAND products to storage controller chip suppliers in 1Q20. The company is aiming to begin wafer input in 3Q20 and start mass production by the end of the year...

SiPearl Signs a Major Licensing Agreement with Arm for Its First-gen of Microprocessors
SiPearl, the company that is designing the high-performance, low-power microprocessor for the European exascale supercomputer, has signed a major technological licensing agreement with Arm, the global semiconductor IP provider...