The performance of the consumer electronics market, driven by smartphones, has been poor, dragging down the recovery speed of the semiconductor industry, which may be delayed until...
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are considering several capex plans for 2024, with the emphasis expected to lean toward reducing costs associated with the transition to advanced...
South Korean wafer inspection equipment manufacturer Nextin is benefiting indirectly from the US restrictions on semiconductor equipment exports to China and is accelerating its entry...
The number of ASML machines installed in China is estimated to reach nearly 1,400 units. Most installed and uninstalled machines in China may not be used in fabricating chips with...
Japan-based Fuso Chemical, the global leader in semiconductor CMP slurries with a 90% market share, is set to invest JPY 50 billion (US$350 million) in a significant production expansion...
Global semiconductor equipment billings fell 11% year on year to US$25.6 billion in the third quarter of 2023, while quarterly billings slipped 1%, according to SEMI.
The smartphone market is slowly recovering, with many manufacturers recently expressing in their earnings call that the industry's adjustment period over the past three years appears...
Kokusai Electric Corp., a Japanese semiconductor equipment maker, went public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in late October 2023. Although it went public during the semiconductor downturn,...
Fab toolmaker All Ring Tech, which is reportedly involved in the supply chain for TSMC's chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) packaging, is expected to post significant revenue growth...
Chinese semiconductor equipment suppliers, such as Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment (AMEC) and ACM Research Shanghai, have strengthened their competitiveness by capturing domestic...
TSMC's capacity utilization rate is estimated to pick up slowly through the end of 2023 and rebound to 80% in the first half of 2024, and its US dollar revenue performance this year...
The semiconductor physical vapor deposition (PVD) equipment market, long dominated by Applied Materials of the US, is seeing South Korean players making a strong entry. Baco Solution...
As the material handling in each production process of semiconductor factories is moving toward intelligent transportation, Taiwanese equipment manufacturers have evolved from mature...
IC analysis and inspection lab Material Science Service (MSScorps) has seen a surge in materials analysis demand from semiconductor customers who are actively pursuing advanced process...
