Marvell has entered into definitive agreements to purchase Avera Semiconductor, the application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) business of Globalfoundries, according to the com...

Globalfoundries and ON Semiconductor have entered into a definitive agreement for ON Semi to acquire a 300mm fab located in East Fishkill, New York, according to the companies.

LFoundry, a Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) company, has entered into a binding agreement with SMIC for the latter to sell all of its stakes in the former to Jiangsu...

China-based fabless chipmakers saw their combined share of the global market reach 13% in 2018, up from only 5% in 2010, according to IC Insights.

Silicon Motion Technology has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its mobile communications product line, branded as FCI, to Dialog Semiconductor.

Leading semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest Corporation has announced that it has closed its previously announced acquisition of the commercial Semiconductor System Level...

Specialty IC foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) is expected to see its revenues rebound to sequential growth in the second quarter of 2019, as the visibility of its...

Taiwan's metal stamping parts maker AVY Precision Technology will merge with powder metallurgy specialist Jabon International via a share swap, in an effort to focus more on developing...

The historic flood of merger and acquisition agreements that swept through the semiconductor industry in 2015 and 2016 slowed significantly in 2017 and then eased back further in...

Micron Technology has announced the company is exercising its right to purchase Intel's interest in the parties' joint venture, IM Flash Technologies.

Worldwide semiconductor revenues totaled US$476.7 billion in 2018, a 13.4% increase from 2017, according to preliminary results by Gartner. Memory strengthened its position as the...

Photomask supplier Taiwan Mask swung to net losses of NT$68.38 million (US$2.21) in the third quarter of 2018, due to losses arising from the value of its financial assets. EPS came...

Worldwide notebook shipments are forecast to increase 2.8% sequentially to their highest levels for 2018 in the fourth quarter thanks to strong seasonal demand and improving Intel...

Commenting on IBM's planned acquisition of open source software designer Red Hat, Damien Wong, vice president and general manager of Red Hat Asian GEMs has noted that Red Hat's operation...

Globalfoundries has announced the establishment of Avera Semiconductor, a wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to providing custom silicon solutions for a broad range of applications...