Samsung Electronics has seen orders demanding 14nm and above processes ramp up from its China-based fabless clients recently, according to industry sources.

Many Taiwan-based IC design houses affiliated with United Microelectronics (UMC) are facing the pressure of being marginalized in scrambling for the firm's foundry support, as major...

Taiwan-based ASIC and SoC design service providers including Alchip, Faraday Technology and Global Unichip continue to see robust demand from China's chipmaking industry, which has...

Faraday Technology, a fabless ASIC service and silicon IP provider, saw its net profits drop to a seven-quarter low of NT$39 million (US$1.3 million) in the first quarter of 2020.

Taiwan-based ASIC solution suppliers have to delay postpone shipments to Chinese clients in the meantime amid the coronavirus outbreak, but their longer-term orders from China will...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics (UMC) have both seen their China-based wafer fab utilization rates pick up recently, driven by growing...

Taiwan IC backend service firms are moving to carry out capacity expansions to meet increased shipment demand from Huawei and its chipmaking arm HiSilicon, which, coupled with growing...

Taiwan-based Faraday Technology, a fabless ASIC service and silicon IP provider, expects its third-quarter 2019 revenues to surge over 27% sequentially after the company experienced...

China-based Bitmain Technologies has reportedly placed around US$300 million worth of orders with TSMC for processing 30,000 wafers on 7nm node amid speculated sharp increase in demand...

Backend houses have seen a pickup in short lead-time orders for crypto mining ASICs recently, driven by significant upturn of Bitcoin prices, according to industry sources.

Taiwan-based Faraday Technology, a fabless ASIC service and silicon IP provider, expects to post a double-digit sequential decrease in first-quarter revenues. Revenues will start...

Taiwan-based graphics card players, Nvidia and semiconductor players including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Global Unichip and Faraday Technology are expected...

Taiwan IC designers capable of providing crypto mining ASIC solutions are feeling increasing pressure from customers postponing shipments and new product development amid Bitcoin...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and its design services partners have recently seen orders for cryptocurrency mining chips pick up, as major crypto mining machine...

Taiwan-based Faraday Technology, a fabless ASIC service and silicon IP provider, expects to post revenue growth of 25% sequentially in the third quarter of 2018 thanks to growing...

With the advent of the 5G era, artificial intelligence (AI) applications will be in full swing, prompting chipmakers to develop multiple xPU chips beyond Intel's CPU and Nvidia's...

Despite foundry quotes at 8-inch fabs in Taiwan and China to see 20-30% hikes in the third quarter of 2018, IC design houses across the Taiwan Straits are gearing up to vie for foundry...

Affected by the abrupt fading of crypto mining craze starting in April 2018, suppliers of mining graphic cards are plagued by increasingly high inventories, and players in the supply...

With USB Type-C connector gaining momentum to become a mainstream interface for smartphones, PCs and notebooks, global market demand for Type-C chips is estimated to see an annual...

Taiwan-based Faraday Technology, an ASIC design service and IP provider, has enjoyed robust orders for non-recurring engineering (NRE) designs. The company has reported sales generated...

Taiwan-based IC design houses have received requests from customers in the cryptocurrency mining sector to defer shipments of mining ASICs amid lackluster replacement demand for mining...

With more device vendors developing their chip solutions in-house, as well as China pushing for self-sufficiency in semiconductors, demand for custom ASIC chips has been growing substantially,...

The growing application of AI to terminal devices has triggered a new wave of IC design and IP resources reorganization, with device makers showing increasing demand for ASICs, either...

Taiwan-based Faraday Technology, a fabless ASIC service and silicon IP provider, has expressed optimism about 28nm chip demand and expects revenues generated from 28nm chip orders...

Due to lackluster business performances recorded by most Taiwan IC design houses in the first half of 2017, the overall production value of Taiwan's IC design industry will see only...