Eight-inch IC foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) has trimmed its financial guidance for the third quarter following a power blackout that hit one of its wafer fabs.

The tight supply of Intel's 14nm processors is set to affect negatively notebook shipments worldwide in the second half of 2018, which will likely drag down further DRAM prices, according...

Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) has expressed optimism about semiconductor probe card demand for AI and 5G applications.

ASE Technology Holding, the parent company of IC backend houses Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL), saw its August revenues increase...

Winbond Electronics and Macronix International have reported sequential increases in August consolidated revenues of 3.6% and 6.2%, respectively.

The global DRAM and NAND flash sectors are expected to see their combined output value grow less than 30% in 2018, according to Digitimes Research. The growth will slow to a single-digit...

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix both intend to defer their capacity expansion plans, as a slowdown in customer demand will be dragging down DRAM and NAND flash memory prices through...

Front-end fab capacity in China will grow to account for 16% of the world's semiconductor fab capacity in 2018, according to SEMI. The share will increase to 20% by the end of 2020...

PC DRAM contract prices have stayed unchanged in August, with average prices for 4GB and 8GB DDR4 modules remaining flat at US$34.50 and US$68, respectively, according to DRAMeXcha...

Wafer test solution provider Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) is expected to see its third-quarter revenues hit the second-highest quarterly level in the company's history, according...

Nanya Technology is expected to see its third-quarter revenues hit a record high, according to market watchers. The DRAM chipmaker saw its August revenues hit the third-highest quarterly...

Total semiconductor capital expenditures are forecast to rise to US$102.0 billion in 2018, the first time that the industry spends more than US$100 billion on capex in one year, according...

Micron Technology has announced plans to invest US$3 billion by 2030 to increase memory production at its plant in Manassas, Virginia, creating 1,100 new jobs roughly over the next...

Pure-play foundry Powerchip Technology has disclosed plans to construct two new 12-inch wafer fabs in Taiwan with total investment estimated at NT$278 billion (US$9.05 billion).

With the continuation of the strong surge in the DRAM and NAND flash markets over the past year, Samsung Electronics went from having only 1% more total semiconductor sales than Intel...

Mobile DRAM revenues amounted to about US$8.87 billion in the second quarter, up 5.1% sequentially and hitting a record high, according to DRAMeXchange.

Taiwan-based Winbond Electronics, a manufacturer of specialty DRAM and NOR flash memory, expects to start constructing its new 12-inch wafer plant at the Kaohsiung Science Park (KSP),...

DRAM suppliers have begun to negotiate with their clients contract prices for the fourth quarter since the middle of August, according to DRAMeXchange, which expects prices to weaken...

The DRAM market is expected to be the largest of all IC product categories in 2018, repeating the ranking it held last year, according to IC Insights.

EDA vendor Cadence Design Systems is scheduled to start operating a new subsidiary in Nanjing, China in September, according to industry sources.

Memory module firm Adata Technology has reported earnings per share nearly doubled on quarter to NT$0.52 (US$0.02) in the second quarter. EPS for the first half of 2018 came to NT$...

The global DRAM memory industry's output value grew 11.3% sequentially to record-high US$25.69 billion in the second quarter of 2018, according to figures from research firm DRAMeX...

Wafer test solution provider Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) is looking to tap into the DRAM probe card field to compete with FormFactor and Micronics Japan Company (MJC).

Winbond Electronics and Macronix International have reported sequential increases in July consolidated revenues of 2% and 9.1%, respectively.

Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) under China's state-owned Tsinghua Unigroup will participate in the upcoming Flash Memory Summit to reveal its in-house developed 3D NAND technology,...