IC foundries, and PC and handset manufacturers continue to encounter rising costs of components and materials, and will see their gross margins come under downward pressure in 2018,...

Top semiconductor players Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Samsung Electronics and Intel are engaged in increasingly fierce competition not only in developing advanced...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is expected to report flat sequential revenue growth for the second quarter with a possibility of a slight increase or decrease,...

Bolstered by its programmability trait, FPGA (field-programmable gate array) is gaining ground in the field of high-performance computing (HPC) chips and artificial neural networks...

Pure-play foundries United Microelectronics (UMC) and Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) have reported sequential increases in March consolidated revenues of 4.2% and 25.8%,...

ASIC supplier Bitmain has postponed shipments for its Ethereum ASIC miner, the Antminer E3, from April to mid- or late-July due to the circuit's weaker-than-expected performance,...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reported consolidated revenues for March 2018 of about NT$103.7 billion (US$3.55 billion), up 60.4% sequentially and 20.8% on...

While strong demand for non-smartphone and 5G chips will keep foundry fabs running at full capacity in the second quarter, backend wafer test and IC packaging and testing service...

Strong demand for Internet of Things (IoT) related chips is filling China- and Taiwan-based pure-play foundries' 8-inch fab capacities, according to industry sources.

China-based pure-play foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) has reported revenues grew 6.4% on year to a record high of US$3.1 billion in 2017. Net profits, however,...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is expected to see its March revenues rebound to over NT$100 billion (US$3.43 billion), driven by a ramp-up of 16nm and 12nm chip...

Taiwan-based Ardentec is expected to enjoy growing revenues generated from orders for automotive MCUs in 2018, according to industry sources. The IC testing company has seen orders...

Taiwan and international IC designers have advanced fabrication orders with foundry houses to early 2018 to support shipments in the traditional boom season in the second half, amid...

The new Samsung Galaxy S9+ equipped with 64GB of NAND flash memory (model number SM-G965U1) carries a bill of materials (BOM) cost of US$375.80, much higher than for previous versions...

Taiwan-based Episil Holdings, which makes silicon epitaxial wafers and provides foundry services at its 5- and 6-inch wafer fabs, expects to return to profitability in 2018 thanks...

Samsung Electronics has announced more value added 8-inch (200mm) technology solutions for its foundry customers. On top of its existing embedded flash memory (eFlash), power, display...

Foundry chipmaker Powerchip Technology has reported net profits climbed 23% on year to NT$8.08 billion (US$276.8 million) in 2017, with EPS reaching NT$3.54. The year also marked...

Bolstered by China's large population, solid mobile network infrastructures, and aggressive deployments in IoT and AI applications, the localization of its semiconductor industry...

TSMC's 16nm and 12nm process production capacity has been tight in the first quarter of 2018 driven by strong demand for GPUs and ASICs for cryptocurrency mining, according to industry...

Diode makers are striving to secure more supplies from their upstream wafer providers, as well as production capacities at their foundry partners, according to industry sources.

Silicon wafers will continue to experience tight supply in 2018, driven by robust demand from IC foundries. Taiwan-based GlobalWafers and Formosa Sumco Technology (FST) are both among...

Consolidated revenues at pure-play foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) fell to a 10-month low of NT$64.64 billion (US$2.2 billion) in February 2018.

Samsung Electronics has enhanced its tie with Taiwan-based Faraday Technology, an ASIC design service and IP provider, to boost further the competitiveness of its foundry operations,...

Holtek Semiconductor expects to ship 20 million MCUs for wireless charging applications in 2018, doubling from the company's previously-estimated 10 million units.

Samsung Electronics and Qualcomm Technologies have announced their intention to expand their decade-long foundry relationship into EUV (extreme ultra violet) lithography process technology,...