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Vanguard International Semiconductor Corp (世界先進), a supplier of display driver ICs and power management chips, yesterday said that its board of directors approved the distribution of a record cash dividend of NT$4.5 per share following a record net profit. The Hsinchu-based chipmaker’s net profit last year increased 87 percent to NT$11.82 billion (US$425 million), up from NT$6.31 billion in 2020, due to supply constraints, a company filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange showed. That translated into earnings of NT$7.21 per share, up from NT$3.85 a year earlier. The proposed cash divid...

Realtek Semiconductor Corp (瑞昱半導體) yesterday posted record high net profit for last year after gross margin climbed to surpass 50 percent, supported by strong demand for its chips across the board, from Ethernet switches to Wi-Fi chips, as the work-from-home and online-learning trends stimulated broad infrastructure upgrades. Net profit soared 91.7 percent to NT$16.85 billion (US$605.29 million) last year, compared with NT$8.79 billion in 2020. That translated to earnings per share of NT$33, up from NT$17.24. Gross margin jumped to 50.4 percent last year from 42.8 percent in 2020, as...

GlobalWafers Co (環球晶圓) failed to reach a breakthrough in a last-ditch bid to salvage its planned takeover of Siltronic AG, likely spelling the collapse of the US$5 billion deal. The Taiwanese technology company did not resolve the government’s concerns during a private meeting between GlobalWafers chairwoman Doris Hsu (徐秀蘭) and German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action State Secretary Udo Philipp, people familiar with the matter said. Siltronic shares tumbled as much as 4.7 percent on the news on Friday, extending the stock’s decline for the year to mor...

The data transmission speed of 6G (sixth-generation wireless) networks is expected to be 10 to 100 times faster than 5G technology, MediaTek Inc (聯發科) said in a paper released on Jan. 18. 6G standardization is expected to begin in 2024 or 2025, with the first standard technology expected in 2027 or 2028, said MediaTek, one of the world’s leading chip design companies. “Our 6G vision is of an adaptive, integrated and super heterogeneous wireless communication system, delivering pervasive mobile connectivity in a truly ubiquitous manner,” the paper said. The sector is making breakthr...

Contract chipmaker United Microelectronics Corp (UMC, 聯電) yesterday raised its capital spending plan for this year by more than 66 percent to US$3 billion to expand capacity, including 28-nanometer chips, as customer demand continued to outpace supply. It expects the investment to boost capacity by 6 percent from last year. UMC spent US$1.8 billion on new manufacturing equipment and facilities last year, about US$500 million less than its original estimate due to delays in equipment delivery. “We believe that current semiconductor mega trends — continuing penetration of 5G phones, ac...