After nearly two months of negotiations and press reports that a blockbuster deal was in the works, Nvidia this week announced a US$40 billion agreement to buy Arm from financially...

Following the release of Flexible Access in 2019, Arm, a subsidiary of SoftBank, is opening up the project to startups with no charge, helping newcomers to reduce costs for product...

GigaDevice, a provider of non-volatile memory, 32-bit MCU and sensor solutions, has announced that it has signed an RRAM (resistive random access memory) patent licensing agreement...

Imagination Technologies announced recently it has struck a deal with BAIC Capital, a Beijing-based investment unit of China's state-owned automaker BAIC Group, to initiate the establishment...

AP Memory will focus more on its IP licensing services and customized offerings to improve its margin performance this year, according to the memory IC design house.

MediaTek has released Dimensity 1000 featuring four Arm Cortex-A77 cores operating up to 2.6GHz with four power-efficient Arm Cortex-A55 cores operating at up to 2.0GHz, accelerating...

Arm will keep licensing its processor IP and rendering service support to its partners in China, having made strict scrutiny of legal issues involved, according to Allen Wu, executive...

United Microelectronics (UMC) has satisfied all closing conditions, including final approval from all relevant government agencies, for the full acquisition of Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor...

Solid-state lithium ceramic battery (LCB) maker PorLogium Technology has signed MoUs with four battery and electric vehicle (EV) makers giving them licenses to use its battery manufacturing...

LED packaging service provider Advanced Optoelectronic Technology (AOT) has disclosed it aims to obtain licenses for using US-based Cree's patents and trademark, according to an announcement...

A recent US court verdict ordering Qualcomm to renegotiate patent licensing deals with customers in accordance with the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) Act may cripple its dominance...

Meitu, a company best known for its selfie app, and Xiaomi announced recently a strategic partnership to jointly launch Meitu-branded phones and other smart devices in a move that...

As digital manufacturing is gradually becoming an important part of the worldwide manufacturing industry, data security and supply chain management are major concerns for many large...

Amazon is likely to launch in 2019 a versatile robot integrating cloud service, big data, smart voice, IoT, AI and even 5G technologies, which is expected to serve as the web giant's...

AP Memory will be executing its business transformation between the fourth quarter of 2018 and first-half 2019, as the company is looking to improve its gross margin and profit performance,...

China-based pure-play foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) expects to post a revenue decline of 4-6% sequentially in the third quarter of 2018, with gross margin...

Arm China will be dedicated to developing products exclusively for the China market, and plans for an IPO on the local stock exchange, according to Rene Haas, president of Arm's IP...

Microsoft reportedly is mulling adjusting its current Windows licensing plan and is expected to charge more fees on models with higher-end specifications. The move is expected to...

Taiwan-based eMemory, a developer and provider of embedded non-volatile memory (eNVM) technology, has reported net profits of NT$598 million (US$20.4 million) on consolidated revenues...

As part of its efforts to enhance its presence in the CPU sector, China tech giant Alibaba Group has invested in Hangzhou-based C-Sky Microsystems, an IC design house dedicated to...

Qualcomm has announced operating income of US$2.6 billion on revenues of US$22.3 billion in its fiscal year ended September 24, 2017, which represented on-year decreases of 60% in...

Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has concluded an investigation into wireless chipmaker Qualcomm, finding that certain of the company's business practices are in violation of...

Foundry chipmaker UMC has disclosed plans to roll out 22nm process technology as early as 2018. UMC has started IP development for its 22nm process, and expects to introduce the node...

United Microelectronics (UMC) expects its wafer shipments and ASPs to stay flat sequentially in the second quarter of 2017, when the foundry chipmaker's capacity utilization rate...

The supply of DRAM memory is likely to stay tight for a substantial period of time, according to Frank Huang, chairman for Taiwan-based pure-play foundry Powerchip Technology.