TSMC held a meeting of its board of directors on November 9 and subsequently confirmed the establishment of its JASM (Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing) subsidiary in Kumamoto Prefecture in J...
Samsung will install about 5-10K wspm of 4nm capacity in 4Q21 and expand this capacity to a total of 15K wspm in 4Q22. Samsung has also slightly raised the yield rate of its 4nm node to 35-40%...
A 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan at 1:11pm, October 24 local time with the epicenter in Yilan. Taiwan’s domestic wafer fabs are located in science parks throughout Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Taichung, and...
After TSMC officially raised the prices of its various process technologies in September, Samsung now plans to follow suit by raising its own quotes by about 20%...
Regarding TSMC’s development of the 3nm node...
Certain recent rumors in the semiconductor market claim that the yield rate for Qualcomm X60 5G baseband modems has been lower than expected because of quality issues with Samsung’s 5nm process techno...
TrendForce’s latest findings verify that Intel is currently outsourcing the production of certain chips to...
Samsung continues to expand the wafer capacity of Line S5, which is the foundry production line of its Pyeongtaek-based P2L fab and accounts for 25% of P2L’s total production capacity...
Following up on the latest developments of TSMC’s fab construction in Japan as reported in the July 9 Special Report, TrendForce’s latest investigations indicate that...
Regarding Samsung’s fab construction plans, the company is currently intending to build a new fab dedicated to advanced process technologies next to its Line S2 fab in Austin...
Regarding rumors of TSMC constructing wafer fabs in Japan, TrendForce’s investigations indicate that no parties in TSMC’s supply chain, including upstream equipment/parts/consumables and silicon wafer...
Global market intelligence firm TrendForce has reported that the share of high-end models in global smartphone sales fell in 2020 because of the severe of impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the econom...
Regarding advanced nodes, Samsung’s production capacity for the 7nm node is currently about...
Regarding the capacity expansion of TSMC’s Fab16 in Nanjing, TSMC held a special Board of Directors meeting on April 22...
As previously mentioned in TrendForce’s analysis of Qualcomm redirecting some of its AP-SoC orders from Samsung to TSMC in the April 19th edition of the Foundry Market Bulletin...
