According to a report from Korean media outlet THE ELEC, a senior executive at analog chip manufacturer Texas Instruments (TI) stated that the company is transitioning its production of gallium nitride (GaN) chips from several 6-inch fabs to 8-inch fabs. The same report further noted that Jerome ...

TSMC’s Fab14 P7 in the Southern Taiwan Science Park suffered a power outage on April 14th. The cause of the power outage was an accidental severing of an underground power cable during construction work nearby. According to TrendForce’s latest investigations, the facility accounts for around 4%...

A fire broke out at the 12-inch wafer production line of Renesas’s Naka Factory on March 19 due to an overcurrent in the plating equipment. Renesas said that the fire burned about 5% of the total area of the first floor. The Naka fab mainly manufactures MCUs and SoCs for automotive, industrial, an...