Globalfoundries has acquired the PDK engineering team from Smartcom Bulgaria. The newly acquired team will enhance GF's scale and capabilities, while strengthening competitiveness...

Worldwide sales of semiconductors posted a year-over-year decline for the eighth consecutive month in August 2019.

EMEA purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) vendor revenues decreased 5.6% on year to reach US$267.7 million in the second quarter of 2019, according to IDC. Total EMEA PBBA open systems...

The worldwide handset market has shown signs of recovery in the second half of 2019 and into 2020, pushing smartphone shipment growth back into positive territory, according to IDC...

Acer expects its notebook sales in Germany to register a double-digit increase in 2019, thanks to enterprise users replacing their Windows 7 machines and growing demand from the gaming...

Worldwide sales of semiconductors posted a year-over-year decline for the seventh consecutive month in July 2019.

European spending on artificial intelligence (AI) is estimated to reach more than US$7 billion in 2019 and to almost triple over the next four years, growing at a 32% CAGR. European...

Global sales of 5G smartphones will reach 160 million in 2020 if 5G takes off as expected in China, according to Strategy Analytics. Huawei is best positioned to capture the majority...

Toppan Photomasks and Globalfoundries have entered into a multi-year supply agreement in which Toppan will provide GF with photomasks and related services currently supported by GF's...

The Western Europe printer and multifunction (MFP) market decreased by 6.1% in unit terms in the second quarter of 2019 compared with the same period a year ago to give a market size...

Yageo remains conservative about its performance for the rest of 2019, and continues to keep a close eye on the development of global trade conditions and other macro factors which...

The Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) traditional PC market (desktops, notebooks, and workstations) grew 1.1% on year in the second quarter of 2019 and totaled 16.4 million units,...

Taiwan-based IPC maker Advantech, following its investments in Russia, Turkey and Japan, has announced the establishment of a branch office in Israel, eyeing the country's strong...

TSMC CFO Lora Ho will leave her current position on September 1 as she will move forward to oversee the pure-play foundry's Europe and Asia business. Ho's CFO vacancy will be filled...

The EMEA smartphone market reached 83.7 million units in the first quarter of 2019, a 3.3% drop on the same quarter last year, confirming recent trends of a slowing market, according...

China-based makers showcasing PV modules made of P-type and N-type high-efficiency solar cells at Intersolar Europe 2019 in Germany last week saw Europe-based potential buyers ask...

PCB manufacturer Tripod Technology has reported net profit surged 30.5% from a year earlier to NT$1.08 billion (US$34.7 million) in the first quarter of 2019, with EPS coming to NT...

DMS (design and manufacturing services) provider Universal Scientific Industrial (USI) will continue focusing on enhancing its technologies such as system-in-package (SiP) for modular...

Worldwide sales of semiconductors totaled US$96.8 billion during the first quarter of 2019, a decrease of 15.5% over the previous quarter and 13% less than the first quarter of 2018,...

GlobalWafers' Novara plant in Italy dedicated to making 8-inch silicon wafers became the largest supplier of 8-inch silicon wafers in Europe in 2018, with a 24% market share, according...

The global semiconductor materials market grew 10.6% in 2018, propelling semiconductor materials revenues to US$51.9 billion to eclipse the previous high of US$47.1 billion set in...

PC and peripherals vendors have been aggressively expanding into the gaming markets of some Southeast Asia countries where e-sport has received much government support, with vendor...

In the third quarter of 2018 the EMEA server market reported an on-year increase in vendor revenues of 24.5% to US$4 billion and an on-year increase of 2.9% in units shipped to 551,000,...

Worldwide sales of new semiconductor manufacturing equipment are projected to increase 9.7% to US$62.1 billion in 2018, exceeding the historic high of US$56.6 billion set last year,...

Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached US$41.8 billion for the month of October 2018, up 12.7% compared to year-ago levels and 1% sequentially, according to the Semiconductor Industry...