If the US imposes trade sanctions against SMIC - the largest China-based pure-play foundry - the already tight global supply of notebook components could worsen, according to industry...

Globalfoundries has announced the next generation of its FDX platform, 22FDX+, designed to meet the ever-growing need for higher performance and ultra-low power requirements of connected...

Executives at Qualcomm have paid visits to Taiwan-based pure-play foundries for the purpose of securing capacity support if deliveries from China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International...

Pure-play foundries including TSMC, UMC and VIS are poised to see their fab capacities continue being fully utilized through the end of 2020, according to industry sources.

Phison Electronics has expressed optimism about its PCIe SSD controller shipments in 2021, thanks to growing demand for game consoles and notebooks, and that from the retail market...

Rising wafer shipments and ASPs boosted pure-play foundry SMIC's revenue and net profits in the first half of 2020.

China's Huawei reportedly is looking to build its own 45nm chip fabrication lines without US technology this year, which industry sources believe is "mission impossible."

Flash device controller specialist Phison Electronics has enjoyed robust demand for PCIe Gen4 SSDs thus far in 2020, which boosted its overall SSD controller sales during the first...

Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) saw its July revenue increase 6.3% sequentially to a record high of nearly NT$15.5 billion (US$527.4 million).

China-based pure-play foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) has reported revenue grew 18.7% on year and 3.7% sequentially to US$938 million in the second quarter...

China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) has struck a deal with the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area Management Committee (BDAC) to form a JV fab that...

Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) expects its wafer shipments and ASPs to stay flat sequentially in the third quarter of 2020, with its capacity utilization rate remaining...

Cadence Design Systems and United Microelectronics (UMC) have jointly announced that the Cadence millimeter wave (mmWave) reference flow has achieved certification for UMC's 28HPC+...

Samsung Electronics has revised its foundry process roadmap, skipping 4nm and jumping directly to 3nm from 5nm, according to industry sources.

United Semiconductor (Xiamen), a 12-inch foundry subsidiary of Taiwan's United Microelectronics (UMC), has run at near full capacity since the second quarter of 2020 thanks to a pick-up...

United Microelectronics (UMC) expects to post a 1-2% shipment increase sequentially in the second quarter, with a 1-2% rise in ASPs.

TSMC has disclosed that its 3nm technology development remains on track, with risk production scheduled for 2021 followed by volume production in the second half of 2022.

TSMC expects to post revenues of between US$10.1 billion and US$10.4 billion in the second quarter of 2020, flat from its sales in the first quarter.

TSMC has seen 28nm as well as 40/45nm process capacity utilization rates drop, due to a slump in chip demand for automotive and consumer electronics devices, according to sources...

Smartphone AP shipments to China-based vendors came to 197 million units, down 5.9% on year and 7.7% on quarter.

Globalfoundries announced recently that its embedded magnetoresistive non-volatile memory (eMRAM) on the company's 22nm FD-SOI (22FDX) platform has entered production. The foundry...

Taiwan-based eMemory has announced the availability of NeoFuse IP qualified on United Microelectronics' (UMC) 28nm high-voltage (HV) process for OLED display applications, with key...

TSMC expects to post revenues of between US$10.2 billion and US$10.3 billion in the first quarter of 2020, representing an about 1.4% sequential decrease. Gross margin and operation...

SJ Semiconductor (SJSemi), a joint venture between China-based foundry SMIC and backend house JCET, has started implementing its second-phase development looking to strengthen its...

China-based CPU developer Loongson has announced its in-house developed 3A4000 series processors, which the company claimed were created without using intellectual properties (IPs)...