Taiwan suppliers of high-end IC substrates, HDI boards, rigid PCBs with high layer counts and flexible PCBs are expected to have another busy year in 2021 after benefiting from pandemic-induced...

Billings among North American manufacturers of semiconductor production equipment topped US$3 billion in January 2021, according to SEMI.

Packaging specialists, such as Greatek Electronics, plan to raise their quotes for MCU and other consumer IC products in the second quarter to reflect their tight capacities, according...

MediaTek expects to post revenue growth of up to 8% sequentially to between NT$96.4 billion (US$3.44 billion) and NT$104.1 billion in the first quarter of 2021. Despite foundry capacity...

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...

Many startups are confused about how to find angel investors, while investors are discouraged by the lack of transparency of information about startup investments. Nguyen Ngoc Tien...

Cyber security is a key issue for the era of big data, Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G. Cybersecurity Ventures has predicted that, globally, businesses in 2021 will fall victim to...

AImazing, founded in 2015, was groomed by Taiwan-based accelerator AppWorks. AImazing, which set up its headuqarters in Singapore and R&D base in Taiwan in 2017, was about to...

Taiwan-based Powertech Technology (PTI) is one of the world's top OSATs with major backend orders from non-Korean memory vendors. PTI has just completed a top management shakeup after...

Taiwan-based ICT makers have to look to multiple business opportunities derived from 5G-based digital transformation and the development of the space industry, according to Lo Huai-jia,...

The prolonging coronavirus pandemic has triggered drastic changes in the global economy, and the resultant impacts are troublesome to most industries, including the flat panel industry,...

Flash device controller developers, including Silicon Motion Technology, have seen their foundry partners encounter tight capacity particularly at 8-inch fabs, which may persist through...

Worldwide sales of semiconductors totaled US$113.6 billion during the third quarter of 2020, an increase of about 11% over the previous quarter and 5.8% more than the third quarter...

Less than one year after Mellanox was acquired by Nvidia for US$7 billion, Alon Webman, co-founder of Mellanox, started his second entrepreneurial project. The new company, Chain...

MediaTek expects to post revenues of between NT$89.5 billion (US$3.13 billion) and NT$97.3 billion in the fourth quarter of 2020, representing flat growth or an up to 8% decrease...

Replacement demand from the consumer sector, in addition to Chromebooks, will be driving the overall notebook market growth in 2021, according to Acer chairman and CEO Jason Chen.

Smartphone-use lens module maker Largan Precision is unlikely to have production capacity fully utilized in the fourth quarter of 2020 mainly because a major client has cancelled...

Worldwide semiconductor sales registered an on-year increase for the seventh consecutive month in August 2020.

Charles Kau, formerly president for Taiwan's Nanya Technology, has stepped down as executive VP of global operations for Tsinghua Unigroup as his five-year contract with the China-based...

Globalfoundries has announced the next generation of its FDX platform, 22FDX+, designed to meet the ever-growing need for higher performance and ultra-low power requirements of connected...

Acer has seen sales generated from non-PC products climb as a proportion of company revenues to 20%, and expects the proportion to continue expanding thanks to its business diversification...

August billings among North American manufacturers of semiconductor production equipment registered sequential growth for the second consecutive month.

Acer has had to reschedule 70% of its notebook deliveries to next month due to shortages of panels and diverse ICs, especially those for educational models which will see strong demand...

Networking device provider Unizyx Holding saw its gross margin improve in the first half of 2020 and expects its earnings to continue moving upward in the second half of the year...

Although brand vendors and ODMs have been keen on Chromebook shipments recently, component suppliers are wary of possible fluctuations in orders from this notebook segment, according...