Taiwan's PCB makers have turned cautious about their shipments for non-Apple handset applications in the second half of the year as most Chinese vendors have yet to give clear shipment...

Handset sales in the Taiwan market are expected to grow 25% to 3.6 million units in second-half 2020, up from 2.9 million units shipped in the first half of the year, according to...

Samsung Electronics maintained its lead in the smartphone memory market with 50% revenue share in the first quarter of 2020, followed by SK Hynix and Micron Technology, according...

IC backend houses have seen demand pick up recently for processing TV SoCs and chip solutions for set-top boxes (STB) and other household appliances while chip demand for handset...

UVAT Technology, which provides OEM services for anti-electromagnetic interference (EMI) coating for notebooks and handsets, continues to enjoy a ramp-up in orders for notebooks with...

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...

Handset ODM Arima Communications has revamped its strategy to focus on the white-box handset market in North America, according to company president Chou Chao-cheng.

Handset sales in Taiwan shot up 30.5% sequentially to 535,000 units in May, as consumer demand began to pick up along with the easing of the coronavirus epidemic, according to sources...

Unit prices for 5G smartphone chips, which have been pushed down to between US$70 and US$80 from over US$100 previously, will continue dropping but likely at a slow rate in the second...

PCB manufacturer Compeq Manufacturing expects to end the first half of 2020 with good business results but remains cautious about its operations in the second half of 2020 citing...

Fabless chipmakers in Taiwan and China specializing in display driver ICs and fingerprint sensor chips are keenly developing OLED DDI chip solutions for smartphones seeking to build...

Nan Ya PCB will be striving to boost its profits in 2020 by focusing more on shipments of high-value products such as ABF and SiP substrates, according to company chairman CC Wu.

CCL maker Elite Material (EMC) has gained validation from server brands and datacenter clients with their orders gradually picking up recently, according to the company.

Some China-based IC-design houses and headhunting companies have been stepping up efforts to poach talent from HiSilicon Technologies as they expect there will be a brain drain from...

Handset sales in the China market fell 12% on year to 34 million units in May, after just experiencing a rebound of 14% to over 40 million a month earlier, according to data compiled...

China's top-three handset ODMs - the Wingtech Group, Huaqin Telecom Technology and Longcheer - are expected to ship a total of 183 million ODM models to the world's four major brand...

As optical sensors are increasingly applied to wearable devices, TWS (true wireless stereo) earphones, AR/VR headsets and healthcare devices, Taiwan's IC designers, III-V semiconductor...

TaiSol Electronics has seen strong shipment pull-ins from Chinese 5G infrastructure and smartphone clients starting June, with its production lines all running at full capacity to...

Smartphones are expected to increasingly come with 256GB or even 512GB of storage in 2020, thanks to brand vendors' launches of new 5G models and a gradual recovery in China's smartphone...

Taiwan-based Sporton International has been busy fulfilling orders from MediaTek for testing and certifying its 5G sub-6 GHz mobile SoCs as well as orders from Chinese handset vendors...

Taiwan's makers of handset-use HDI boards have yet to feel the pinch of waning handset sales so far this year and are expected to enjoy stable shipments through second-quarter 2020,...

Sensor shipments for handset camera lens are expected to drop further in the second quarter of 2020, due to a plunge in end-market demand and excess inventory in the supply chain,...

NAND flash device controller specialist Silicon Motion Technology expects sales of all its three major product segments to continue rising in 2020, when its overall revenue will still...

Handset sales in Taiwan fell 3.76% sequentially to 410,000 units in April as consumers opted to delay purchases before the arrival of 5G models, despite the availability of Apple's...

NAND flash memory contract prices are expected to stay flat in the third quarter, as demand for notebooks remains stable, according to Wallace Kou, president and CEO of Silicon Motion...