DRAM prices continued to fall in the fourth quarter of this year, and the November contract price has already experienced a second decline. According to the current transaction price, some of the contract prices have been changed to the monthly price, which means that buyers are holding a wait-and-see attitude toward DRAM price trends, and…

Some of the companies in Apple’s supply chain are said to be negatively impacted, like iPhone camera lens supplier Largan Precision. It is reported that Largan now expects its November revenue figure will drop below October’s top line number. Career Technologies, which provides flexible printed circuit boards for iPhone models, recently laid off 110 workers directly…

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8150 will be unveiled at an event in Hawaii in December 4th. Even with the announcement less than two weeks away, there’s still speculation over what the next Snapdragon will be called. Being the successor to 845, the obvious choice seems like the 850 or 855, but it’s looking increasingly likely that Qualcomm is…

SK Hynix and Samsung account for 75% of the global memory chip market share and may continue to climb. By the third quarter of this year, Korean companies produced DRAM chips that accounted for 75% of the global market, with Samsung and SK Hynix occupying an important position. According to data released by DRAMeXchange, as of…

TSMC announced that it has approved a $3.36 billion for new fab facility construction, and advanced-node and specialty technology upgrades and related capacity expansions. TSMC pointed out that the capital budget will be used to build factories, expand and upgrade advanced process capacity, upgrade special process capacity, convert logic process capacity to special process capacity, and…

TDK announced yesterday that it will raise its consolidated revenue target from 1.34 trillion yen to 1.42 trillion yen this year, mainly due to the upgrade of smartphone and vehicle electronization improves the sales of high end MLCC. From the last quarter’s financial report released by TDK, the demand for automotive MLCC was extremely strong,…

Recently, ON Semiconductor announced the establishment of a joint laboratory in Suzhou, China, to actively explore the breakthroughs and applications of cutting-edge technologies in the field of intelligent manufacturing and new energy vehicles. Innovance Purchasing Director Yang Zhenhao, Inovance United Power R&D Director Yang Ruicheng, ON Semiconductor Asia Pacific President David Chow, High Power Product…

Samsung said that it has taped out and is ramping multiple 7nm chips using EUV following a similar announcement earlier this month from its larger foundry rival, TSMC. Samsung also gave its supporting IP and EDA infrastructure a boost and detailed its packaging capabilities in an effort to catch up with TSMC’s ecosystem. The South Korean giant…