Specialty foundry Globalfoundries and GlobalWafers, among the world's top-3 silicon wafer producer, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop a long-term supply agreement...

Samsung Electronics has announced that its new cutting-edge semiconductor fabrication line in Hwaseong, Korea has begun mass production.

Mobile device testing and certification service company Sporton International is expected to regain its revenue growth momentum in 2020 from growing 5G applications after experiencing...

Demand for AMD's new 7nm EUV processors remains robust, with development projects for the chips commenced by PC, motherboard and graphics card makers this year set to be 10-20% higher...

EV Group (EVG), a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, has announced it is partnering with Inkron, a manufacturer...

Winbond Electronics, a maker of specialty DRAM and flash memory, swung to its first quarterly loss in 27 quarters.

MediaTek is likely to post a revenue decline of as much as 15% sequentially in the first quarter of 2020, due mainly to a collapse in demand from China's handset market, according...

Mobile DRAM demand for smartphones is likely to disappoint in the first half of 2020, as the coronavirus outbreak may hit sales of new 5G-compatible phones, according to market sou...

Worldwide shipments of devices - PCs, tablets and mobile phones - will total 2.16 billion units in 2020, an increase of 0.9% from 2019, according to Gartner. In 2019, global shipments...

Qualcomm and MediaTek are expected to each post a double-digit increase in mobile chip sales this year, with gross margin edging up single-digit percentage points thanks to the availability...

As the auction of 5G spectrums in Taiwan has reached an end, telecom carriers' high bidding prices are expected to prompt them to accelerate the adoption of x86 servers in their equipment...

Compal Electronics expects its notebook shipments to register only flat growth on year in 2020, but shipments of its non-notebook products such as wearables, smart home devices, automotive...

Getac has announced it has been selected by the BMW Group to supply rugged mobile devices and solutions across its global network for a wide range of applications including R&D,...

Taiwan-based Integrated Service Technology (iST), Sporton International and Materials Analysis Technology (MA-tek), all dedicated to semiconductor materials analysis, IC test and...

Taiwan-based AIMobile has developed a mobile streetlight that can be established at road intersections with frequent accidents or during rallies to collect data.

The global supply of 5G mobile chips remains constrained, due to tight 7nm manufacturing process capacities at foundries, according to industry sources.

OmniVision Technologies has announced at CES 2020 the OV48C, a 48 megapixel (MP) image sensor with a large 1.2 micron pixel size to enable high resolution and low light performance...

Leading smartphone brands Samsung and Huawei are ramping up consumption of their own application processor solutions in their products, causing market share to shift away from top...

MediaTek has introduced its Dimensity 800 series, a new 7nm SoC designed for mid-range 5G smartphones slated for launch later in the first half of 2020.

Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) saw sales generated from its new VPC (vertical probe card) product line grow to account for a double-digit percentage of the company's total revenues...

NAND flash contract prices are forecast to rise by up to 40% in 2020, according to sources at memory chipmakers.

While Huawei has continued to ramp up self-sufficiency for mobile chips via its chip arm Hisilicon Technologies, other Chinese handset players including Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo have...

MediaTek is expected to embrace an ambitious strategy to grow its presence in the 5G smartphone SoC sector. It will focus its efforts on 5G chip solutions for the upper midrange smartphone...

Synaptics has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to divest its mobile LCD TDDI business to Hua Capital through a special purpose entity backed by Hua-Capital Cayman for...

Baidu and Samsung Electronics have announced jointly that Baidu's first cloud-to-edge AI accelerator, Baidu Kunlun, has completed its development and will be mass-produced early next...