As of December 2020, only TSMC was among the wafer capacity leaders in each of the main wafer size categories ranked by IC Insights. The Taiwan-based foundry had the most 200mm wafer...

Fourth-quarter 2020 global tablet shipments amounted to 51.56 million units, soaring 17.6% from a quarter ago and 19.3% from a year ago.

Superior Plating Technology (SPT), dedicated to metal surface treatment and electroplating processing, is expected to post significant profit growth in 2021 thanks partly to its entry...

The top-5 wafer capacity leaders saw their combined installed capacity represent 54% of total global wafer capacity in December 2020, according to IC Insights. In 2009, the top-10...

As NAND flash stacking technology continues to advance, vendors will be racing for mass production of 3D TLC/QLC (triple/quad-level cell) NAND chips with over 100 layers in 2021 after...

Taiwan's PCB supply chain players are guardedly optimistic about business opportunities to arise from replacement demand for servers adopting Intel's new Whitley server processors,...

Global notebook shipments, excluding detachable models, surged over 10% sequentially to hit a fresh high of 60 million units in fourth-quarter 2020, mainly driven by robust demand...

AMD is unlikely to transfer its 5nm or 3nm chip orders from TSMC to Samsung Electronics, and its ongoing tight supply of processors is due mainly to ABF substrate shortages rather...

Global server shipments are expected to increase 5% on year and see a slight sequential fall of only 1.8% in first-quarter 2021 thanks mainly to a ramp-up in demand from datacenter...

Fourth-quarter 2020 global server shipments amounted to 3.84 million units, down 9.6% quarter-over-quarter but up 12.6% year-over-year.

SK Hynix has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Dalian Municipal People's Government of China and the Administrative Committee of Jinpu New District, Dalian, under...

SK Hynix has reported operating profits of KRW966 billion (US$0.87 billion) on consolidated revenue of KRW7.97 trillion for the fourth quarter of 2020, representing sequential decreases...

Global server shipments are estimated to have surged 7.9% on year to around 16 million units in 2020 and may further rise 5.2% to more than 17 million units in 2021, driven by the...

Intel announced recently that it has invested a further US$475 million in Intel Products Vietnam (IPV). This new investment is in addition to Intel's US$1 billion investment to build...

Just days after Intel seemingly dismissed speculation about expanding outsourcing to TSMC, sources from Taiwan's supply chain have disclosed that the US chip vendor has plans to have...

Next-generation DDR5 memory is expected to be employed in consumer electronics devices starting as early as the second half of 2021, despite its still-early stage of deployment, according...

Cooling module makers expect shipments for new-generation servers based on Intel's 10nm Ice Lake processors to push up their product ASPs.

TSMC has already struck a deal with Intel under which the pure-play foundry will use 3nm process technology to manufacture the US vendor's core CPU products, with volume production...

Taiwan-based Gudeng Precision Industrial, a semiconductor front-end equipment manufacturer specializing in mask solutions and wafer handling tools, has expressed optimism that its...

Despite speculation circulating recently that Intel is looking to outsource more chip production to TSMC, the CPU vendor does not seem to be ready to play a meaningful role in the...

Thanks to the stay-at-home economy driven by the coronavirus pandemic, notebook shipments are expected to stay robust in 2021, with ODMs see stable orders for the first half of the...

Intel has reported record revenues for 2020 at US$77.9 billion, up 8% on year, with its board of directors approved a cash dividend increase of 5% to US$1.39 per share on an annual...

With TSMC and Samsung Electronics stepping up the development of their sub-5nm process technologies, ASML will continue to see strong extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography equipment...

Research and development spending by semiconductor companies worldwide is forecast to grow 4% in 2021 to US$71.4 billion after rising 5% in 2020 to a record high of US$68.4 billion,...

The semiconductor industry has seen some major players committing significant sums for R&D, such as TSMC announcing to inject a record-high capex of up to US$28 billion in 2021...