GlobalWafers says revenue should improve this year By Lisa Wang and Crystal Hsu / Staff reporters GlobalWafers Inc (環球晶圓), the world’s No. 3 silicon wafer supplier, on Tuesday said that revenue would regain growth momentum this year, driven by a rebound in the automotive sector and 5G smartphones, as well as emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI). “We believe 2021 will be better than 2020,” GlobalWafers chairwoman Doris Hsu (徐秀蘭) told a virtual investors’ conference. “We expect customer inventories to have a less negative impact on demand in 2021,” Hsu said. “We believe wafer demand is strong and high, and our production loading is good.”