Delivery lead times at Taiwan-based packaging and testing houses have been extended, as fabless chipmakers are striving for capacity support, according to industry sources.

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...

Taiwan-based pure-play foundries will raise their 8-inch foundry quotes by more than 15% starting the first quarter of 2021, according to industry sources.

Taiwan-based IC design houses have seen orders from Android phone vendors start pulling in, and are more upbeat about their sales outlook for the fourth quarter of 2020.

Delivery lead times at Taiwan-based 8-inch foundries have been extended to more than three months, according to sources at fabless chipmakers who are aggressively seeking support...

Taiwan-based IC design houses, led by MediaTek, are expected to enjoy a particularly strong fourth-quarter 2020, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic causing delays of new product launches,...

Taiwan-based fabless chipmakers, with many of them contracting SMIC to manufacture their chips supplied to the Chinese market, are mulling shifting orders away from the China-based...

A number of Taiwan's IC-design houses have reported strong sales for August, as they have been receiving more windfall orders from clients in China as a result of the ongoing "de-Americanization"...

Taiwan-based pure-play foundries have seen orders for PCs and handsets ramp up in the third quarter of 2020. Nevertheless, orders for PCs and handsets received thus far for the fourth...

Chip demand for Chromebooks is expected to remain brisk through the first half of 2021, driven by a surge in distance education amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to sources...

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...

Samsung Electronics has announced the immediate availability of its silicon-proven 3D IC packaging technology, eXtended-Cube (X-Cube), for today's most advanced process nodes.

Taiwan-based IC backend houses including ASE Technology and Powertech Technology (PTI) have seen orders placed by game console and other consumer electronics vendors ramp up since...

The global semiconductor packaging materials market will expand from US$17.6 billion in revenue logged in 2019 to US$20.8 billion in 2024, a 3.4% compound annual growth rate (CAGR),...

Fabless chipmaker Elan Microelectronics, which specializes in touchscreen controller chips and fingerprint sensors, expects robust shipments for Chromebook to boost its revenue in...

Faraday Technology, a fabless ASIC service and silicon IP provider, has announced net profits jumped 265% sequentially to NT$143 million (US$4.86 million) in the second quarter of...

Memory chipmaker Macronix International and image sensor specialist Pixart Imaging, with both reportedly in the supply chain for Nintendo's Switch, saw their June revenues grow.

Taiwan's first-tier IC design houses, such as MediaTek, have demanded more capacity support from their foundry partners recently, according to industry sources.

Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has been engaged in the development of next-generation non-volatile memory technologies, such as ferroelectric RAM (FRAM)...

As of December 2019, Taiwan led the world in wafer capacity with about 22% of worldwide capacity installed in the country, according to IC Insights. Taiwan surpassed South Korea in...

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...

Motherboard maker ASRock and ASMedia Technology, a fabless chipmaker specializing in high-speed transmission chips, are both expected to enjoy a substantial ramp-up in orders for...

Taiwan-based analog IC suppliers, pinpointed as among the beneficiaries of US-China trade tensions, are expected to post impressive revenue results for 2020 despite coronavirus headwinds,...

TSMC already took 7nm and 5nm chip orders from Huawei in advance before stopping taking more orders from the China-based client in the wake of the US government's announcement of...

With the US set to impose new restrictions on exports to China, including exports of some critical semiconductor equipment, the ban that will become effective on June 29 is likely...