Taiwan’s semiconductor industry has achieved significant growth over the last two years, and demand for materials analysis (MA), reliability analysis (RA) and failure analysis (FA) are growing, according to Danny Yu, chairman of Integrated Service Technology (iST), a Taiwan-based IC analysis and verification lab.
With the global automotive industry moving towards full electrification, future vehicles are positioned to offer increasing levels of autonomy and connectivity, and cybersecurity is expected to become a new dimension of quality for cars.
After selling its plant in China, Catcher Technology’s operation is having higher flexibility and resilience against changes of the world compared to its competitors, according to company chairman Allen Hung. Catcher reportedly made iPhone chassis at the plant.
Outsourced semiconductor assembly and testing (OSAT) vendors continue to enjoy strong order pull-in for high-end chips used in automotive, high-performance computing (HPC), and server device applications, which will fill up related bumping, flip chip ball grid array (FC-BGA), land grid array (LGA), and other advanced packaging capacities through the second half of 2022, according to industry sources.
Server ODMs remain upbeat about shipments for the rest of this year despite the ongoing shortage of certain chips and components and expect to post high-single-digit or even double-digit shipment growth in 2022, according to industry sources.
Display driver IC supplier Raydium Semiconductor has expressed optimism about demand for its OLED DDI chips, which will be increasingly adopted in handsets and other devices.
Some Taiwan-based diode and MCU suppliers have extended their chip offerings for niche markets, such as middle- to high-end high-speed transmission, high-performance computing, and automotive applications, and are beginning to realize business benefits.