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…

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…

Intel 10nm is more like 7nm of TSMC’s in terms of density, performance and power efficiency.  Intel decided not to use EUV caused them a lot of time, but it appears that they are going to use EUV in their upcoming 7nm product.  Once they got their 10nm circuit done, they can move to 7nm…

TSMC confirmed that its 8-inch wafer OEM production line capacity is loose. Previously, many foreign investors have issued reports pointing out that after the loosening demand for 12-inch silicon wafers, the original shortage of 8-inch silicon wafers due to repeated orders resulting in capacity loosening. Recently, TSMC confirmed that the company’s 8-inch wafer OEM line…

Yesterday, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred in the waters of Hualien County, Taiwan Province, China. According to Taiwan media reports, the earthquake was a strong earthquake that could cause serious damage. Although it occurs in the sea, it will also have an impact on the land. Since TSMC and UMC’s headquarters and most manufacturing bases…

Apple has been firing on all cylinders recently with its CPU chip design; Apple’s A12 chip continued this trend and allows for the iPhone XS to easily outstrip the competition on speed tests and benchmarks. Of course, whilst Apple designs these chips in-house it does not manufacture them. That responsibility lies on TSMC’s shoulders. TSMC has been the exclusive…

The graphics chip market has experienced an incredible trend in the past few quarters, from low to high, and then from the high to the bottom. The driving force of this market trend comes from the cryptocurrency market. In 2017, the cryptocurrency market is arguably the main source of growth of NVIDIA’s graphics chips. NVIDIA…

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)—the world’s largest makers of semiconductors and processors—was forced to shut down several of its chip-fabrication factories over the weekend after being hit by a computer virus. Now, it turns out that the computer virus outbreak at Taiwan chipmaker was the result of a variant of WannaCry—a massive ransomware attack that wreaked havoc across the world…