Shares of silicon wafer supplier Formosa Sumco Technology Corp (台勝科) outperformed the broader market last week, reflecting investors’ expectation that its gross margin is likely to expand in the coming quarters as prices continue to climb, analysts said.
Formosa Sumco, which was founded by Japan-based Komatsu Ltd and Taiwan’s Formosa Plastics Group (FPG, 台塑集團) in 1995, focuses on producing 8-inch and 12-inch wafers. The company has a monthly capacity of about 330,000 8-inch wafers and 300,000 12-inch wafers at the FPG complex in Yunlin County’s Mailiao Township (麥寮).
Shares of Formosa Sumco on Friday closed 5.39 percent higher at NT$244.5 in Taipei
Last year, we learned that Japan wants to reignite its once-dominant semiconductor industry, which has gone from producing 50 percent of the world's chips in 1990 to.
Operations at two Japanese factories producing flash memory chips have been disrupted by the contamination of industrial materials, chipmaker Kioxia Corp said yesterday.
It comes as the tech industry grapples with a global semiconductor shortage that has hampered the manufacturing of numerous products from vehicles to gaming consoles.
Kioxia said that it suspected the “contamination of materials used in the manufacturing processes” at its production facilities leading to operations being partially suspended, without giving further details.
The company, a spin-off of Japanese conglomerate Toshiba Corp, said it was working to restore full output at the factories in central and northern Japan as soon
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