PCB and IC substrate supplier Unimicron Technology swung to net profits of NT$982 million (US$31.8 million) in the third quarter of 2018 from losses in the prior quarter and a year...

IC design house ALi, which specializes in set-top box (STB) chipset solutions, has reported an 11th consecutive quarterly loss in the third quarter of 2018 in which net losses came...

Flexible PCB specialists Flexium Interconnect and Uniflex Technology have both disclosed plans to raise new capital for capacity expansions.

The world's top-15 semiconductor companies are forecast to see their combined sales climb 18% in 2018, according to IC Insights, which estimated the overall semiconductor industry...

Lite-On Semiconductor has reported net profits of NT$335 million (US$10.8 million) for the third quarter of 2018, up 63% sequentially and 25% on year. EPS for the quarter came to...

ASE Technology Holding, the parent company of IC packagers Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL), has reported October consolidated...

A ramp-up of chip orders for Apple's new iPhone devices boosted Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) October revenues to the second-highest monthly levels in the contract...

IC distributor WT Microelectronics has reported net profits of NT$990 million (US$32.3 million) for the third quarter of 2018, up 59% sequentially and 29% on year, and hitting a record...

IC design house Novatek Microelectronics expects to post revenues of between NT$14.6 billion (US$475.5 million) and NT$15 billion in the fourth quarter of 2018, down 5-7% sequentia...

GaAs IC foundry Win Semiconductors saw its October revenues rebound slightly while revenues at epitaxial wafer supplier Visual Photonics Epitaxy Company (VPEC) climbed 35.3% on mon...

China-based crystal-growing furnace makers who have long been focusing on the PV industry, have developed tools looking to build their presence in the semiconductor sector, according...

China backend service providers such as Tongfu Microelectronics, Tianshui Huatian Technology, Jiangsu Changjiang Electronics Technology have been actively raiding talent from Taiwan's...

LCD driver IC backend specialist Chipbond Technology has reported net profits climbed to a record high of NT$2.71 billion (US$87.6 million) in the third quarter of 2018. EPS for the...

Eight-inch foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) has expressed caution about the IC market growth in 2019, citing the impact of the escalating US-China trade war and...

ASE Technology Holding, the parent company of IC packagers Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL), expects to post another sequential...

Cypress Semiconductor announced recently the company has entered into a joint venture with SK hynix system ic, a foundry spin-off of SK Hynix.

Micron Technology has announced the opening of a new plant in Taichung, central Taiwan that will be dedicated to providing backend services for the manufacture of DRAM memory.

At the Open Innovation Platform (OIP) Ecosystem Forum held in early October, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) announced the launch of OIP Virtual Design Environment...

Shipments of chip solutions for all-screen smartphones, such as TDDI solutions, optical fingerprint identification chips and touch controller chips, have started growing fast as chipmakers...

Memory and logic IC backend house Powertech Technology (PTI) expects to post a low single-digit sequential decrease in fourth-quarter revenues, due mainly to a slowdown in memory...

Pure-play gallium arsenide (GaAs) foundry Win Semiconductors has revised downward its capex target this year to between NT$5 billion (US$161.4 million) and NT$6 billion after posting...

Despite China's semiconductor industry aggressively carrying out diverse development projects, increasingly serious talent shortage is casting clouds over the development, making...

More than 50 IC designers, academic units and research bodies in China have recently established the China RISC-V Industry Consortium, seeking to develop the country's independent...

Taiwan-based IC design houses are expected to post over 10% sequential decreases in October revenues, as shipments during the first week of the month were affected by China's National...

China's state-owned Tsinghua Unigroup has already begun to implement its new fab projects in Nanjing and Chengdu as part of its memory business expansion. The new manufacturing sites...