Highlights of the day: 6-inch fab capability tight
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The foundry sector has seen tight provide throughout all segments, with 6-inch fab capability nearly totally booked for third-quarter 2021 because of sturdy demand for a variety of purposes, akin to analog chips and discrete energy units. And brief suply within the reminiscence sector can also be anticipated to drive up DRAM and NOR flash costs by second-half 2021. In Poland, startup IS-Wireless is aiming to interrupt the seller lock-in imposed by massive gamers within the cell telecom business. IS-Wireless CEO Slawomir Pietrzyk not too long ago instructed Digitimes how his firm does it.
Six-inch fab capability nearly totally booked for 3Q21: Six-inch foundries have seen their fab capability for the third quarter nearly totally booked, pushed by a ramp-up in demand for analog chips, akin to energy administration ICs, and discrete energy units together with diodes and MOSFETs, in keeping with business sources in Taiwan.
DRAM, NOR flash costs to rise by 2H21: DRAM and NOR flash reminiscence costs are anticipated to rise by the second half of 2021, as development on the provision facet fails to catch up, in keeping with business sources.
Liberalizing 5G: Q&A with Polish startup IS-Wireless CEO Slawomir Pietrzyk: Window of alternative has opened up for Polish startup IS-Wireless, which was nominated for DigitalEurope’s Future Unicorn Award 2021, having gained a number of different awards in Europe with its modern 5G cell communications applied sciences. They have joined the Garage+ accelerator of the Epoch Foundation in Taiwan, hoping to search out {hardware} companions from Taiwan to ship their new mannequin of 5G communications at decrease value and higher efficiency.
