Taiwan-based IC designers are gearing up to cash in on the growing demand for high-speed, high-performance peripheral chips including Type-C interface chipts, USB 4.0 chips, diverse...

Shipments of EMEA traditional PCs (a combination of desktops, notebooks, and workstations) will total 72.1 million in 2019, a 0.6% on-year growth, according to IDC. While weakness...

Taiwan-based WPG's recent unsolicited tender offer for buying 30% of fellow IC distributor WT Microelectronics shares has stoked strong opposition from the latter's employees.

To avoid US tariffs on Chinese imports, notebook vendors are considering a new practice of manufacutring where production lines in China will only handle the final assembly work,...

Intel's CPU shortages are expected to continue haunting the PC industry in the first quarter of 2020, and may even last into the second quarter, undermining demand for SSDs from the...

Taiwan's notebook shipments rise 1.8% sequentially and 8.6% on year to come to 34.14 million in the third quarter of 2019.

Asustek Computer expects to post flat growth or an up to 5% sequential decrease in PC sales in the fourth quarter, while sales of its component products including motherboards and...

Global server shipments grew 11.2% sequentially in third-quarter 2019 with inventory depletion that began from the second-half 2018 to first- and second-quarter 2019 coming to an...

Worldwide notebook shipments are forecast to drop 1.8% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2019 after registering a nearly 2% increase in the prior quarter, according to Digitimes...

Intel has revealed the first architectural details related to Tremont. Intel said its newest and most advanced low-power x86 CPU architecture offers a significant performance boost...

As web giants in the US and China have gradually reactivated construction of datacenters since the start of the fourth quarter of 2019, the global server market is on track to renew...

The impact of the shortages of Intel's 14nm CPUs seems to be rippling out from the PC to the sever sector. Sever ODMs now see tight supply for Intel 14nm CPUs with their stocks reportedly...

Server ODMs have reportedly seen the supply of Intel's 14nm CPUs become tight but remain sufficient to support their shipments in the fourth quarter, according to sources from the...

Notebook shipments in 2019 are estimated to show a 1.6% increase with vendors ramping up inventory in preparation for the US-China trade war and business notebooks as well as Chromebook...

Intel CEO Bob Swan is in Taiwan meeting with the chip vendor's supply chain partners, tightening relationships and talking about future development directions.

Preparations for the year-end shopping season and extra inventory build-ups at clients to avoid extra US tariffs are heaping strong pressure on notebook ODMs who are not receiving...

Notebook ODMs are scrambling to secure supply from Intel for its 14nm CPUs that have again been hit by shortages ahead of the year-end holiday season, according to industry sources...

Global shipments of gaming desktops, notebooks, and monitors reached 10.4 million units in the second quarter of 2019, up 16.5% on year, according to the IDC. A combination of better...

More China-based firms have become keen on in-house development of new-generation CPUs and GPUs, allowing Taiwan IC design service providers, especially those associated with TSMC,...

Unsatisfactory clock speeds are the cause of AMD delaying launch of its 16-core Ryzen 9 3950X processor, which has nothing to do with support from its foundry partner TSMC, according...

China's homegrown processor makers will be ready for commercial shipments of their newly developed CPUs and GPUs in 2020, according to industry sources.

The global semiconductor sector will experience constant quantitative and qualitative changes in the next 20-30 years, and heterogeneous integration will not be confined to CPU and...

The lead time for production of 7nm chips at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has extended to nearly six months from the previous two months because of strong demand,...

As 7nm and more-advanced process nodes are increasingly applied to fabricating high-performance computing (HPC) CPUs and GPUs, demand for high-end IC sockets for SLT (system level...

Apple has announced the iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max, a new pro line for the vendor's smartphone series, as well as the iPhone 11 featuring a dual-camera system.