Micron Technology has announced that its monolithic 12Gb low-power double data rate 4X (LPDDR4X) DRAM has been validated for use in MediaTek's new Helio P90 smartphone platform reference...

Networking IC design specialist Realtek Semiconductor has reported consolidated revenues of NT$4.05 billion (US$131 million) for November 2018, up 2.2% on month and 7.6% on year.

Qualcomm has unveiled its Snapdragon 855 mobile platform to enable commercial 5G networks and mobile devices in early 2019.

Order visibility for the pure-play IC foundry sector for the first half of 2019 appears to be low. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has started negotiating with its...

Taiwan-based IC design houses expect to see a new wave of orders from downstream PC and notebook clients before the Lunar New Year holidays in early February at the earliest, as the...

Taiwan-based IC design service company Global Unichip is likely to post revenue growth of 11-13% sequentially in 2018, a recent Chinese-language Commercial Times report quoted...

The overall output value of China's IC design, manufacturing and backend industries came to CNY446.15 billion (US$64.4 billion) for the first three quarters of 2018, rising 22.4%...

IC design house Weltrend Semiconductor is set to ship 50 million USB PD (power delivery) ICs in 2018, Taiwan's Central News Agency (CNA) quoted market watchers as...

The chip-on-film (COF) substrate market continues to be dominated by Korea- and Taiwan-based firms, and is considered to be niche with a high barrier of entry for startup companies,...

IC design house ALi, which specializes in set-top box (STB) chipset solutions, has reported an 11th consecutive quarterly loss in the third quarter of 2018 in which net losses came...

Taiwan-based pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) has claimed its DRAM technology design is entirely different from Micron Technology's.

IC design house Novatek Microelectronics expects to post revenues of between NT$14.6 billion (US$475.5 million) and NT$15 billion in the fourth quarter of 2018, down 5-7% sequentia...

SK Hynix has launched what the company claims is the world's first 96-layer 512Gb CTF (charge trap flash)-based 4D NAND flash based on its TLC (triple-level cell) arrays, using 3D...

United Microelectronics (UMC) has maintained that the latest trade secret theft charges brought against it by US authorities are "virtually the same" as the ones that Micron Technology...

IC design service company Global Unichip has reported net profits increased 24.8% sequentially to NT$280 million (US$8.96 million) in the third quarter of 2018. EPS for the quarter...

Globalfoundries has announced the establishment of Avera Semiconductor, a wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to providing custom silicon solutions for a broad range of applications...

Apple has introduced new all-screen iPad Pros, one coming with an 11-inch Liquid Retina display and one with a 12.9-inch display. Both machines feature Face ID, allowing users to...

Altek has introduced IPC603, an industrial surveillance camera reference design equipped with Qualcomm QCS603 SoC based on Qualcomm Vision Intelligence 300 Platform, for clients to...

At the Open Innovation Platform (OIP) Ecosystem Forum held in early October, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) announced the launch of OIP Virtual Design Environment...

Globalfoundries and the Chengdu municipality have signed an amendment to their investment and cooperation agreement. Based on market condition changes, Globalfoundries' renewed focus...

Arm has expanded its DesignStart program to include the Cortex-A5 CPU, Arm's low-power and Linux-capable application processor, according to the processor IP vendor. Developers can...

As digital manufacturing is gradually becoming an important part of the worldwide manufacturing industry, data security and supply chain management are major concerns for many large...

Taiwan-based IC design houses are expected to post over 10% sequential decreases in October revenues, as shipments during the first week of the month were affected by China's National...

At its recent forum in Beijing, Xilinx introduced its FPGA-based acceleration solutions designed for artificial intelligence (AI) and data center applications. Dubbed Alveo, the acceleration...

Samsung Electronics has started wafer production of its 7nm LPP with extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology, according to the company.