China has stepped up the development of its homegrown CMOS image sensor (CIS) industry sector as part of the country's ambitions to achieve self-sufficiency in chips, with SmartSens...

With major CMOS image sensor (CIS) vendors including On Semiconductor and Sony set to put increased focus on automotive applications, Taiwan-based backend houses including Tong Hsing...

The fallout from the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 is expected to lower CMOS image sensor sales for the first time in 10 years, but new record-high revenues are seen next year, according...

Wuhan Xinxin Semiconductor Manufacturing (XMC), under China's state-owned Tsinghua Unigroup, has reportedly kicked off mass production of its in-house developed 50nm SPI NOR flash...

Yageo has obtained a 5-year syndicated loan of NT$48.5 billion (US$1.6 billion), an amount nearly 60% higher than the company's original expectation, from banks and will use the fund...

Global shipments of fingerprint-on-display (FoD) sensors expanded by nearly a factor of eight in 2019 as these devices increasingly replace conventional silicon-based capacitive chips...

CMOS image sensor (CIS) devices have seen a rapid surge in demand for security surveillance and video conferencing applications due to lockdowns amid the coronavirus pandemic. This,...

It was a year when global semiconductor revenue fell by the greatest percentage in at least two decades, when eight of the top-10 chip suppliers suffered revenue declines and when...

CMOS image sensor (CIS) backend specialists including Tong Hsing Electronic Industries and Xintec are expanding capacity seeking to satisfy growing demand for multi-lens camera pho...

Color filter (CF) maker VisEra Technologies, a subsidiary of TSMC, will establish a new plant in Longtan, northern Taiwan and is eyeing new orders from Sony, according to industry...

TSMC-reinvested backend house Xintec will see little seasonality impact on its revenues for the first half of 2020 as robust packaging demand for DOE (diffractive optical element)...

Taiwan-based makers of CMOS image sensor (CIS) and VCSEL components are optimistic that multi-lens camera modules incorporating ToF (time of flight) sensing technology will be mass-adopted...

At the ongoing CES, SK Hynix has unveiled its PCIe NVMe consumer SSD series. The drives are built with SK Hynix' 128-layer 4D NAND flash, just six months after the company announced...

Taiwan-based testing house King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) is expected to see its first-quarter 2020 revenues hit the highest record ever for the same quarter with monthly revenues to...

A heavyweight CMOS image sensor (CIS) packaging firm will be born in Taiwan soon, as Tong Hsing Electronic Industries, a handset CIS backend and wafer reconstruction specialist, has...

Taiwan's CMOS image sensor (CIS) packaging specialists including Kingpak Technology, Xintec,VisEra Technologies and Tong Hsing Electronic Industries are expected to benefit significantly...

TSMC has obtained orders for CMOS image sensors from Sony, and will fabricate the chips using 40nm process technology at Fab 14A in Tainan, southern Taiwan, according to a recent...

CMOS image sensor (CIS) packaging specialist Kingpak Technology has reported consolidated revenues of NT$205 million (US$6.8 million) for October 2019, surging 30% sequentially and...

Sony and Samsung Electronics have been competing head to head in the CMOS image sensor (CIS) market in order to maintain their leadership, using their respective technology advantages,...

CMOS image sensor suppliers Sony and OmniVision have both enjoyed robust demand for multi-camera smartphones from Huawei, with their regional distributors and backend suppliers being...

CMOS image sensor (CIS) packaging specialist Xintec has put increased focus on high-profit segments of healthcare, industrial control and automotive CIS applications, and expects...

Tong Hsing Electronic Industries, which provides ceramic substrates and niche-IC backend services, has elected its new board of directors with Yageo chairman Pierre Chen becoming...

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

Taiwan's CMOS image sensor (CIS) packaging specialist Kingpak Technology is expected to see its second-quarter revenues fall only slightly on quarter as its average capacity utilization...

GEM Services, which specializes in packaging semiconductor power devices, and CMOS image sensor backend specialist Kingpak Technology both saw their revenues for the first quarter...