TSMC CEO CC Wei has disclosed the foundry's more optimism about chip demand for 5G smartphones in 2020, and its forecast of the 5G smartphone penetration rate next year has already...

TSMC is set to enjoy another year of record-high sales in 2019, but net profits are unlikely to break the record high set last year due mainly to disappointing results during the...

Semiconductor equipment vendor ASML has disclosed a total of 23 extreme ultraviolet (EUV) system orders received in the third quarter of 2019 - the highest ever value of bookings...

Globalfoundries has acquired the PDK engineering team from Smartcom Bulgaria. The newly acquired team will enhance GF's scale and capabilities, while strengthening competitiveness...

Smartphone lens module maker Largan Precision, due to tight production capacity amid strong demand, will give priority to orders for high-price, high-end products in 2020, according...

Intel will be gradually expanding its foundry production capacity, particularly for 14nm process this year, according to company CEO Bob Swan. Swan and other Intel executives arrived...

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

TSMC with its competitive 7nm process technology has obtained orders for made-for-AI chip processors from Nvidia, Xilinx and Qualcomm, and a number of China-based vendors such as...

Worldwide sales of semiconductors posted a year-over-year decline for the eighth consecutive month in August 2019.

NAND flash storage solutions will see much stronger demand in 2020 than 2019 driven by the commercialization of 5G networks and devices, according to Wallace Kou, president and CEO...

Blockchain technology can be applied to manage patients' healthcare records, allowing them to access encrypted data and determine whether to decrypt the data when delivered to home...

Pure Storage, an all-flash array storage product vendor, has seen double-digit growths that are far stronger than those of other major vendors who mostly have only single-digit increases...

HTC has named former Orange executive Yves Maitre as CEO, effectively immediately, with Cher Wang continuing as chairwoman of the Taiwan-based handset brand vendor.

In a report composed jointly by governmental Small and Medium Enterprise Administration, PwC Taiwan and Taiwan Institute of Economic Research noted that about 20% of startups in Taiwan...

PC supply chain players will see their profitability dented by lingering US-China trade conflicts, as they have to absorb part of cost increases resulting from production line relocation,...

Micron Technology CEO Sanjay Mehrotra recently paid a visit to China, during which he reportedly met executives at Tsinghua Unigroup, raising speculation about potential cooperation...

Taiwan-based networking devices and solutions provider Unizyx Holding has adjusted its operations over the past two years and also expanded its business scopes spanning telecom, end-market...

Worldwide sales of semiconductors posted a year-over-year decline for the seventh consecutive month in July 2019.

Shih-Wei Sun, ex-CEO of Taiwan-based foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) who joined China's state-owned Tsinghua Unigroup in 2017, has been recently appointed as president and CEO...

Battery pack maker Simplo Technology will begin to ship BBUs (backup battery units) for use in data center servers later in 2019, with the product line to become a new source of business...

Sesto Robotics, a Singapore-based autonomous mobile robot (AMR) developer, is participating at Taipei Automation Show 2019, debuting its latest autonomous robot product, Sesto Element,...

While Moore's Law is approaching its physical limits, only a few could still afford the expensive game of process shrink. And when the post-Moore's Law era comes, semiconductor firms,...

Shenzhen Goodix Technology has reached a definitive agreement with NXP Semiconductors under which it will acquire all assets of NXP's voice and audio solutions (VAS) business, according...

Toppan Photomasks and Globalfoundries have entered into a multi-year supply agreement in which Toppan will provide GF with photomasks and related services currently supported by GF's...

Jiangsu Changjiang Electronics Technology (JCET), the largest China-based IC backend service provider, has announced that volume production is kicking off at its new 12-inch wafer...