Taiwan-based eMemory has announced the availability of NeoFuse IP qualified on United Microelectronics' (UMC) 28nm high-voltage (HV) process for OLED display applications, with key...

Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) is urging the local industry and academy to devote more efforts to R&D on electronic design automation (EDA) to fill Taiwan's...

Taiwan-based IC design houses have started ramping up their output for their customers' new products slated for launch mainly in China during the end of the first quarter and the...

China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) with its 14nm FinFET process manufacturing is likely to obtain orders from HiSilicon, which has been among the major clients...

MediaTek is expected to see its gross margin improve further in the first quarter of 2020, thanks to the rollouts of its new chip solutions coupled with tight foundry capacities,...

China-based IC design firm Sage Microelectronics Corp. (Sage Micro) completed the acquisition of Beijing-based ChuZhi for US$18 million (CNY125 million) during the last week of 2019...

Networking IC design specialist Realtek Semiconductor saw its fourth-quarter revenues hit a record high of NT$16.68 billion (US$554.2 million), with revenues for the entire year topping...

The output value of China's IC design industry is forecast to rise 22.5% on year to top CNY300 billion (US$43.06 billion) in 2019, according to Digitimes Research.

China-based CPU developer Loongson has announced its in-house developed 3A4000 series processors, which the company claimed were created without using intellectual properties (IPs)...

At the upcoming CES 2020, Intel is planning to announce a new thermal module design that is able to enhance notebooks' heat dissipation by 25-30% with many brands also set to showcase...

The US government is reportedly mulling adjusting regulations to tighten control on Huawei's access to US-originated technology, which may bring uncertainties to Taiwan-based IC design...

Baidu and Samsung Electronics have announced jointly that Baidu's first cloud-to-edge AI accelerator, Baidu Kunlun, has completed its development and will be mass-produced early next...

Chip demand for PCs from China will pick up substantially in 2020 due to large-scale replacement of PCs by the government and military sectors, providing huge business opportunities...

Taiwan-based IC design houses have seen significant increases in orders for related ICs for 5G phones recently, particularly from first-tier Chinese handset brands, with the ramp-ups...

FocalTech Systems is expected to see its fourth-quarter revenues meet its estimate of slight sequential growth, but it remains to be seen whether the IC design house will remain profitable...

Taiwan-based IC design houses have seen their China-based customers start slowing down their pace of orders due to year-end inventory checks at the clients, which may drag down revenues...

More Taiwan-based IC design houses are moving to strengthen partnerships with foundries in China so as to land more orders from Chinese brand vendors seeking to cut reliance on US...

MediaTek held a press conference on November 26 to introduce the new generation of its 5G SoC chips, with guests including TSMC VP Lora Ho, a number of high-ranking executives from...

Memory-IC design house Elite Semiconductor Memory Technology (ESMT) expects niche-market DRAM prices to rebound in 2020

TSMC Nanjing Company has reported its first quarterly profit for the third quarter, which narrowed its losses to NT$1.41 billion (US$46.1 million) in the first three quarters of 2019...

Buoyed by strong demand for NRE and ASIC design services, Global Unichip and Alchip have seen clear order visibility through the first half of 2020 and are expected to smoothly fulfill...

IC design house FocalTech Systems managed to return to profitability in the third quarter of 2019, ending a streak of three consecutive quarterly losses.

IC design service providers Global Unichip and Alchip are both expected to report over 20% sequential increases in fourth-quarter revenues, thanks to robust orders for developing...

Taiwan-based IC design houses have seen orders from Huawei slow down recently, but remain upbeat that orders from the Chinese vendor will start picking up in the first half of 2020,...

IC design service company Global Unichip is expected to see monthly revenues rebound to over NT$1 billion (US$32.9 million) for both November and December, with revenues for the fourth...