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...Smaller local peer United Microelectronics Corp has also shut down machinery and evacuated staff at certain facilities....
...Kaohsiung, an emerging chip hub, and Tainan, where TSMC and United Microelectronics Corp both have chipmaking facilities, introduced water-saving measures this month, including reducing the pressure in public...
...Unisoc has not secured sufficient chip production capacity from major contract chip manufacturers — such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, United Microelectronics and Semiconductor Manufacturing...
...January 2017 Tsinghua Unigroup hires Sun Shih-wei, former chief executive and deputy chairman of United Microelectronics, Taiwan’s second-largest contract chipmaker....
...Given the rising costs of chip research, US-based GlobalFoundries and Taiwan’s United Microelectronics — the second- and third-largest foundry companies by sales, respectively — have in the past two years...
...GlobalFoundries’ withdrawal followed a similar move last year by United Microelectronics, the third-biggest player, with Taipei-based CLSA chip analysts noting that the return on investment for “leading...
...China’s BOE Technology, Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology and Tianma Microelectronics were in negotiations to make a ¥200bn investment, Kyodo News reported on Wednesday....
...United Microelectronics Corporation rose 2.6 per cent. Other companies linked to the sector, including Advanced Semiconductor Engineering and Powertech Technology were also higher....
...On Wednesday United Microelectronics, the Taiwanese semiconductor, was in the latter camp, citing customer confidentiality....
...Wolfson Microelectronics, the Scottish audio chip company, was snapped up by Cirrus Logic for £278m in 2014....
...A sale of Imagination would likely represent another former UK technology stalwart being sold to a foreign buyer, after SoftBank’s takeover of Arm Holdings and the acquisitions of Wolfson Microelectronics...
...China Resources Microelectronics and Hua Capital Management also made an offer for Fairchild earlier this year, although Fairchild rejected the deal on the grounds that it risked being rejected by US regulators...
...China Resources Microelectronics and Hua Capital Management recently made a bid for US chipmaker Fairchild, while Tsinghua Unigroup agreed to pay $3.8bn for a 15 per cent stake in Western Digital, the US...
...The alarm has followed the supply chain into Taiwan, wiping more than one-third from the market valuation of Novatek, which designs chips used in many Chinese smartphones....
...Tsinghua Unigroup acquired Spreadtrum Communications for $1.7bn and RDA Microelectronics for nearly $1bn, while Montage Technology was bought for $693m by Shanghai Pudong Science and Technology Investment...
...No longer able to rely on their core European market, the Russians are looking eastwards, where they have long been seeking a strategic gas deal between Gazprom and the China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC...
...Wolfson Microelectronics dashed hopes of a return to full-year profit on Wednesday, reporting a pre-tax loss of $9.4m that sent its shares down 6 per cent....
GlobalFoundries seeks to challenge Taiwan’s dominance of industry
...Since Apple pulled the plug on its contracts with Wolfson Microelectronics, the Edinburgh-based chipmaker has endeavoured to prove to the world that it has not lost its winning formula....
...Weak consumer demand for electronics and smartphone product delays contributed to increased losses at Wolfson Microelectronics in 2011, marking the third year in which the audio chipmaker failed to make...
...Lee Simpson, an analyst at Jefferies, said Arm could withstand a downturn in the smartphone market better than Wolfson Microelectronics, the audio chipmaker that lowered its sales forecast on Monday....
...Gary Tseng, a former TSMC executive who had joined SMIC last year as chief financial officer, and Chris Chi, formerly of Taiwan’s United Microelectronics, the world’s second-largest contract chipmaker, who...
...Wolfson Microelectronics, the audio chipmaker, was marked 5 per cent higher at 260p in the wake of a $6.5bn bid for National Semiconductor by Texas Instruments....
...The champion of those was Novatek, the independent Russian gas company, which rose 194 places, recovering from its time in the sick patch in 2008-2009....
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