The Trump administration's latest move to slap a 10% tariff on the remaining US$300 billion worth of Chinese imports, including handsets, notebooks and TVs, starting September 1 may...

Taiwan's top IC backend specialist ASE Technology Holding has seen its SiP (system in package) business expand substantially so far this year amid growing demand for heterogeneous...

Mask ROM and flash memory chipmaker Macronix International has reported net profits surged 86% sequentially to NT$264 million (US$8.5 million) in the second quarter of 2019, with...

SK Hynix saw its operating profits fall 89% from a year earlier to KRW638 billion (US$540.8 million) in the second quarter of 2019, when consolidated revenues slid 38% on year to...

Specialty DRAM and flash memory chipmaker Winbond Electronics on July 22 held a beam-raising ceremony for its new 12-inch wafer plant in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan. The new facility...

Foundry chipmaker TSMC is looking to enter a new phase of growth when 5G commercialization kicks off, market observers believe.

Foundries including Win Semiconductors and Advanced Wireless Semiconductor (AWSC), epitaxial wafer supplier Visual Photonics Epitaxy (VPEC), fabless chipmaker Himax Technologies,...

Winbond Electronics expects to start operating a new 12-inch wafer plant in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan by 2021, when the DRAM and flash memory chipmaker has its in-house developed...

HiSilicon, Huawei's chip design subsidiary, will likely fail to beat MediaTek and become the largest Asia-based fabless chipmaker in 2019 as its shipment growth will be affected negatively...

Nanya Technology expects to see its server DRAM shipments start ramping up substantially in the fourth quarter of 2019. The product segment will account for about 10% of the company's...

At the ongoing Computex Taipei 2019, MediaTek has unveiled its new 7nm 5G SoC for flagship smartphones slated for launch in 2020.

Microcontroller design specialist Nuvoton Technology has acquired an around 7.14% stake in Israel-based Autotalks, a developer of vehicle-to-vehicle communications chips, for US$20...

Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) has announced plans to delist its American depositary shares (ADS) from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The decision was made...

A recent US court verdict ordering Qualcomm to renegotiate patent licensing deals with customers in accordance with the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) Act may cripple its dominance...

Himax Technologies has introduced its ultra-low power, AI-based visual sensor for notebooks, with the solution already certified by Quanta Computer.

Unisoc's Ivy 510 5G modem chip has been validated for 5G NR sub-6 GHz signaling, and will be fabricated by TSMC on the 7nm node for official application in the starting year of 5G...

Fabless chipmaker Himax Technologies expects to post a revenue increase of 2-7% sequentially in the second quarter following a 14.5% drop in the first quarter. Gross margin is forecast...

Samsung Electronics will be making significant efforts to strengthen the competitiveness of its logic IC business, and is also eyeing to become the world's largest logic chipmaker...

IC backend house ASE Technology Holding and wafer probe card specialist Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) are both engaged in the supply chain for HiSilicon's next-generation flagship...

Mask ROM and flash memory chipmaker Macronix International has reported net profits for the first quarter of 2019 fell 95% sequentially and 92% on year to an 11-quarter low of NT$142...

Contract chipmaker United Microelectronics (UMC) expects to post a 6-7% sequential increase in wafer shipments for the second quarter of 2019, with an up to 3% growth in ASPs.

ASE Technology has landed more customized SiP (system-in-package) backend orders than expected earlier this year thanks to growing demand for heterogeneous integration of 5G chips,...

Backend house King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) reportedly will team up with Qualcomm to set up an engineering test center to be installed with 20-30 sets of equipment for testing 5G radio-frequency...

Taiwan-based Nanya Technology has cut its capex outlook this year to approximately NT$7 billion (US$226.8 million) from the previously-set NT$10.6 billion. The downward revision was...

DRAM chipmaker Nanya Technology is likely to report an eight-quarter low in net income for the first quarter of 2019, according to a report by Taiwan's Central News Agency...