When Texas Instruments' new engineer Jack Kilby invented the world's first IC in 1958, no one could imagine that 60 years later, ICs have deeply rooted in Taiwan, now the world's...

Industrial PC (IPC) maker Nexcom International is currently servicing the US' education and smart manufacturing market via its US-based subsidiary Nexcobot established in March 2018...

In bracing for the advent of the AI era, IBM has focused its efforts on developing AI and cloud application solutions, seeking to explore immense application opportunities ranging...

Globalfoundries has disclosed plans to cut 5% of its global workforce, or about 900 employees, with the layoff to take place mainly in Europe and the US.

Smartphone-use lens module maker Largan Precision is developing 7P (seven plastic lens pieces) lens modules and is likely to begin large-volume shipments in 2019, according to company...

The time for GPU computing has come, and such computing is accelerating the development of AI (artificial intelligence), with demand for GPU computing power to see a 100-fold increase,...

Acer's most crucial business goal for the company in 2018 is to grab the crown in the US gaming PC market from Dell by the end of the year, according to company chairman and CEO Jason...

Clientron, a world-leading provider of thin clients and embedded systems, established its industrial PC (IPC) team in 2017, demonstrating its determination to penetrate deep into...

Acer will continue to grow sales of its gaming PCs to improve further its overall gross margin as gaming devices have helped the company return to profitability, and the company will...

North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$2.69 billion in billings worldwide in April 2018 (three-month average basis), according to SEMI. The billings...

Unlike most IT players showing pessimism about the future of the PC industry, Michael Dell, CEO of of his namesake company, has optimistically stressed that Dell's PC business will...

BOE Technology is a formidable competitor to AU Optronics (AUO) as far as its diversified business operations are concerned, according to AUO chairman and CEO Paul Peng.

The upcoming 5G will be a massive accelerator on all the things going on in technology, fueling the development of all forms of AI (artificial intelligence) and IoT (Internet of Things)...

MediaTek expects to post revenue growth of 12-20% sequentially in the second quarter of 2018, below market watcher estimates of 20% and more.

China-based Innotron Memory, previously known as Hefei ChangXin or Hefei RuiLi, is gearing up for volume production of 8Gb DDR4 chips in 2019.

A fully autonomous, self-driven network will be materialized in the future, and through embedded intelligence the network will be able to sense internal situations, analyze information,...

Himax technologies has decided to exercise its options to fully acquire Emza Visual Sense for an undisclosed sum, according to the Taiwan-based IC design house. The transaction is...

IC design house ALi, which specializes in set-top box (STB) chipset solutions, saw its net loss improve to NT$1.60 (US$0.06) per share in 2017 from NT$1.95 in 2016.

North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$2.41 billion in billings worldwide in February 2018 (three-month average basis), according to SEMI. The billings...

MediaTek has dismissed a Taiwan media report that claimed the company had been approached by Broadcom about a takeover.

ChipMOS Technologies expects to see tight production capacity for COF (chip-on-film) packaging in 2018, and is optimistic about demand for NOR flash and niche-market DRAM memory.

Pegatron expects its performance in the first half of 2018 to outperform that seen a year ago, and is optimistic about demand for consumer electronics devices this year.

Taiwan-based backend houses are expected to enjoy robust demand for NOR flash memory, which will be driven by a ramp-up of orders for custom ASICs in 2018, according to industry so...

Global demand for broadening network bandwidths is still maintaining substantial growth momentum, particularly bolstered by active deployments of optical fiber transmission networks...

Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached US$37.6 billion for the month of January 2018, an increase of 22.7% compared to the January 2017 total of US$30.6 billion, according to the...