Japan's semiconductor firms including Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage and JS Foundry are actively expanding investments in building new capacities for power devices to meet...

Worldwide semiconductor sales fell on both sequential and on-year bases in the third quarter of 2022, according to the latest Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) statistics.

Texas Instruments (TI) will have two new 300mm fabs come online between the end of 2022 and early 2023, with the additional output poised to meet chip demand coming from the automotive...

China's largest foundry SMIC announced on August 26 that it planned to establish a new 300mm fab in Tianjin, China, with a capacity of 100,000 wafers per month. With US$7.5 billion...

Japan's top automotive components supplier Denso is keen to develop and produce automotive power chips on its own, and has just unveiled a new power semiconductor device for electrical...

STMicroelectronics and GlobalFoundries have signed a MoU to build a 300mm semiconductor manufacturing facility in France, according to the chipmakers.

GlobalFoundries has kicked off equipment move-in at the foundry's new facility on its Singapore campus, with the first tool - a market-leading etch tool made by Lam Research - moved...

Texas Instruments (TI) has disclosed it has broken ground on its new 300mm semiconductor wafer fabrication plants in Sherman, Texas.

Renesas Electronics has announced plans to reopen its Kofu factory located in Kai City, Yamanashi Prefecture as a 300mm wafer fab capable of manufacturing power semiconductors. The...

Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) saw its gross margin climb to 43.4% in the first quarter of 2022, which beat its guidance given earlier this year, buoyed by fully-utilized...

Denso and United Semiconductor Japan (USJC), a subsidiary of Taiwan-based United Microelectronics (UMC), have announced they will partner to manufacture automotive power semiconduc...

IC wafer capacity is forecast to grow 8.7% in 2022 after rising 8.5% in 2021, thanks to the addition of 10 new 300mm fabs that are scheduled to open this year, according to IC Insi...

Silicon wafer companies and other upstream chipmaking material providers continue to see their production capacities fully utilized by the still strong pull-in of orders from foundries,...

China's National Silicon Industry Group (NSIG) announced recently that it has raised an additional CNY5 billion (US$787 million) in paid-in capital through private placement, with...

GlobalFoundries' next-generation silicon photonics platform, GF Fotonix, is available now to address the explosive growth of soaring data volumes while significantly reducing power...