China's vendors are likely to adopt a pricing strategy selling their 5G smartphones at about CNY500 (US$74) more than their current price ranges to increase profitability in 2019,...

China-based LED chip makers had high inventory levels exceeding CNY6 billion (US$871 million) at year-end 2018 due to weak demand, according to industry sources.

The historic flood of merger and acquisition agreements that swept through the semiconductor industry in 2015 and 2016 slowed significantly in 2017 and then eased back further in...

China-based camera module maker Q Technology has issued an earnings warning, saying its pre-tax profits for 2018 will tumble by 95% as compared to a year earlier.

Taiwan-based LED firms have been improving their production efficiency by upgrading manufacturing lines with more smart automation equipment in a bid to maintain competitiveness against...

State Grid Corp of China will set up pumped-storage hydraulic power plants totaling 6GW to store electricity generated by PV power stations and onshore wind farms, according to China-based...

BOE Technology has begun construction of its third 6G flexible OLED panel line in Chongqing with a capacity of 48,000 substrates a month, according to a sina.com report.

Of global demand for solar cells, the proportion for mono-Si models rose from about 30% in 2017 to nearly 50% in 2018, but in all markets other than China, the proportion for poly-Si...

Some China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip makers have resumed capacity expansion since the start 2019, according to industry sources.

Clean room engineering specialist Acter saw its annual revenues surge 24.33% on year to hit a record high of NT$14.22 billion (US$461.47 million) in 2018, and expects to significantly...

Solar cell maker Tainergy Tech will end production in China and Taiwan, and move it to Vietnam, with the relocation to be completed by the end of June 2019, according to company president...

Automated logistics equipment maker Kenmec Mechanical Engineering will develop smart logistics centers in China, with a small portion of them to be for own use and the remaining available...

China-based solar wafer makers, in the wake of increasing polysilicon output from local suppliers who are expanding production capacities, are ready o ask for price reductions for...

Worldwide semiconductor revenues totaled US$476.7 billion in 2018, a 13.4% increase from 2017, according to preliminary results by Gartner. Memory strengthened its position as the...

The semiconductor industry is expected to allocate the largest portion of its capex spending for flash memory again in 2019, marking the third consecutive year that flash has led...

Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) saw its consolidated revenues fall to a 12-month low of NT$11.39 billion (US$369.6 million) in December, but revenues for all of 2018...

DRAM demand for server applications has started showing weakness with related chip prices trending downward, according to market observers. Nevertheless, the outlook for server DRAM...

With the rise of fabless IC companies in China, demand for foundry services has also risen in the country. According to IC Insights, pure-play foundry sales generated from the China...

MLCC specialists Yageo, Walsin Technology and Holy Stone Enterprise have reported sequential decreases in consolidated revenues for December 2018 of 15.7%, 24.7% and 36.4%, respect...

Lite-On Semiconductor has obtained contract manufacturing orders from China-based MOSFET suppliers, and is expected to see its 6-inch fab utilization rate climb to 70-80% in 2019...

The year 2019 will see an official start of the development of 5G-enabled virtual reality (VR) devices, and related suppliers are set to advance well in rolling out new-generation...

LED chip suppliers in Taiwan and China are expected to gear up efforts to land micro LED chip orders from Samsung Electronics after the Korea IT giant unveiled its latest modular...

Unwavering in its drive to build a self-sufficient semiconductor supply chain, China plans more new fab projects than any other region in the world from 2017 to 2020, and its expansion...

Taiwan manufacturers looking to move production out of China amid trade tensions between the world's two superpowers face many hurdles, as their home country lack electricity and...

China's second-tier handset brands are bracing for more upheaval in 2019 as their first-tier competitors are expected to continue to consolidate their market share, while handset...