Research and development spending by semiconductor companies worldwide is forecast to grow 4% in 2021 to US$71.4 billion after rising 5% in 2020 to a record high of US$68.4 billion,...

DRAM prices will start to rally in the first quarter and rise through the second quarter of 2021, due to undersupply in the market, according to chipmaker Nanya Technology.

Taiwan will focus its next wave of technology development on materializing smart healthcare, precision medicine, smart city and digital data governance by leveraging its robust semiconductor...

Display driver IC specialist Novatek Microelectronics expects to post revenues of between NT$21.8 billion (US$763.4 million) and NT$22.5 billion in the fourth quarter of 2020, which...

The supply of display driver ICs has fallen short of demand, while capacities at 8-inch foundries stay tight. Backend houses are mulling raising their quotes to reflect the tight...

Despite the COVID-19 shutdown of the Chinese economy earlier this year, China's share of the pure-play foundry market is forecast to be 22% in 2020, 17pp higher than it registered...

Memory module makers expect end-market demand to pick up substantially in the fourth quarter of 2020, driven by e-commerce operators' year-end promotions.

Taiwan-based power supply and connector makers have seen sales growth thanks to stay-at-home activities since the second quarter of 2020 in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, according...

Advanced Printed Circuit Board (APCB) expects strong PCB demand for notebook lens modules and DRAM modules supporting the stay-at-home economy to drive its performance in the second...

IC test interface specialist Keystone Microtech has reported consolidated revenues surged 17.6% sequentially and 61.6% on year to a record high of NT$118 million (US$4 million) in...

Google Taiwan has announced a project to promote digital transformation at Taiwanese companies.

Most IC suppliers experienced weaker demand and generally poor sales results in the first half of 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic and strained US-China trade relations. However,...

IC distributors expect stable demand for notebooks, tablets, datacenter and game consoles through the end of 2020, thanks to the rise of stay-at-home economy.

Eight-inch IC foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) expects its fab capacity to stay tight until next year, driven by demand arising from the stay-at-home economy and...

Backend houses continue to enjoy strong chip probing demand for display driver ICs for use in gaming, educational and other-purpose notebooks, thanks to the rise of the stay-at-home...

Despite efforts by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) to expand Taiwan's cooperation with countries in Southeast Asia, some industry observers have noted that Taiwan has not...

Optical film supplier Wah Hong Industrial has reported strong sales for July and expects the momentum to last through the third quarter, bolstered by surging panel demand supporting...

Shipment momentum for servers, datacenter servers, notebooks and tablets has shown signs of deceleration as many countries begin lifting coronavirus-induced lockdowns, according to...

Huawei shipped more smartphones worldwide than any other vendor for the first time in the second quarter of 2020, marking the first quarter in nine years that a company other than...

Passive component maker Walsin Technology has seen its order visibility for the third quarter extend, particularly for the notebook segment, according to the Taiwan-based company.

DRAM maker Nanya Technology saw its revenue slide to a four-month low of NT$5.32 billion (US$180.4 million) in June, but revenue for the second quarter climbed 14.4% sequentially...

Taiwan-based Chief Telecom's cloud computing and Internet datacenter (IDC) businesses are expected to see growths thanks to uprising demand from the stay-at-home economy in the wake...

The rise of pandemic-induced stay-at-home activities has been driving the creator PC market growth thus far in 2020 with brand vendors including Acer and Dell having recently released...

Defying a decline in market revenue, the world's top-10 semiconductor suppliers managed to generate revenue growth of 2.1% in the first quarter of 2020, as they benefitted from a...

PC vendors and their suppliers are having mixed views for their shipment prospects for the second half of 2020, after experiencing higher than expected growth in the first half propelled...