The world's top-10 semiconductor suppliers all suffered year-over-year sales declines in the first quarter of 2019 as the global chip market posted its worst quarterly performance...

Huawei has been piling up inventory since around the end of 2018, according to industry sources in Taiwan. Inventory levels at the China-based vendor should be able to sustain its...

Huawei has reportedly promised not to cut its orders with Taiwan's upstream and downstream supply chain partners and also inquired about the possibility of increasing their production...

Taiwan's CMOS image sensor (CIS) packaging specialist Kingpak Technology is expected to see its second-quarter revenues fall only slightly on quarter as its average capacity utilization...

Following two years of expansion, the global microcontroller (MCU) market is set to stall in 2019 because of a combination of factors including a downturn in the wider electronics...

With the US having raised tariffs on China-imported products from 10% to 25%, some PC brand vendors including Asustek Computer are considering increasing product prices in the US...

United Microelectronics (UMC) saw its April revenues climb to a six-month high, while revenues at Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) reached the highest in three months.

China-based pure-play foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) expects to post a revenue increase of 17-19% sequentially in the second quarter of 2019, with gross...

Six major China-based LED chip makers saw combined inventory value rise from CNY6.52 billion (US$943 million) at year-end 2018 to a record high of CNY6.77 billion at the end of March...

Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) remains cautious about its outlook for the second quarter of 2019, as the specialty IC foundry has seen its customers adjust inventory at...

Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments dropped 5.6% sequentially to 3.05 billion square inches in the first quarter of 2019 - the lowest levels since the fourth quarter of 2017, according...

NOR flash memory prices, which experienced a double-digit sequential drop in the first quarter of 2019, will continue to fall but at a slower pace in the second and third quarters,...

Taiwan-based IC design houses have seen orders for Android smartphones pick up in the second quarter, thanks mainly to the upcoming rollouts of new models, according to industry so...

The ongoing rally in prices of small- and medium-size TV panels is likely to last only until June or July due to a pile-up of inventories in the supply chain, according to industry...

MediaTek is expected to post revenues of between NT$56 billion (US$1.82 billion) and NT$61 million in the second quarter of 2019, representing a 7-14% sequential increase, with gross...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reported consolidated revenues of NT$79.72 billion (US$2.59 billion) for March 2019, up 30.9% on month but down 23.1% from a...

Taiwan-based suppliers of MLCCs and chip resistors are expected to see demand pick up gradually later in the second quarter of 2019, with factory utilization rates rebounding, according...

DRAM ASPs are forecast to fall 15-20% sequentially in the second quarter of 2019, and drop another 10% in the third quarter, according to DRAMeXchange.

After years of operation in the PC market, Micro-Star International (MSI) has advanced to the next phase with the company's founders passing on management to a team of professional...

Recent concerns over market conditions, coupled with a sharp downturn in average selling prices, will lead the DRAM market to reach just US$77 billion in 2019 - a 22% year-over-year...

Taiwan-based FocalTech Systems, a supplier of touchcreen and LCD driver ICs, is expected to see its financial performance hit the bottom of 2019 in the first quarter and recover starting...

Memory module firm Adata Technology has reported net losses of NT$0.82 (US$0.03) per share for 2018, due mainly to losses in inventory value arising from DRAM and NAND flash price...

Taiwan-based MOSFET suppliers have turned cautious about their business outlook for the first half of 2019, as graphics card makers are still maintaining relatively high inventory...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is likely to report an annual decrease in net profits this year, due to an even more saturated smartphone market and a slowdown in...

Yageo, a supplier of MLCCs and chip resistors, has reported consolidated revenues fell 35.1% sequentially and 3.6% on year to NT$3.1 billion (US$100.35 million) in February 2019.