Despite sales growth stagnancy for smartphones, handset PCB suppliers are moving to develop high-end board materials as they believe handsets still have great room for sales growth...

Polarizer supplier Cheng Mei Materials Technology (formerly Chimei Materials Technology) has announced a controversial reshuffle of its top management ousting its incumbent chairman...

Semiconductor material distributors Topco Scientific and Wahlee Industrial have both reported on-year increases in consolidated revenues for 2018 of 21.4% and 23.4%, respectively.

Suppliers of glass substrates and liquid crystal materials for Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) are likely to incur the highest amounts of arrears due to the recent shutdown of CPT's...

The board of directors of flexible PCB specialist Flexium Interconnect has approved plans to budget NT$8 billion (US$259.5 million) in capex for 2019, which will be utilized for capacity...

Chung Yo Materials will invest NT$300 million (US$9.74 million) to expand production capacity for metal powders used in 3D printing, including next-generation gas atomization manufacturing...

Taiwan-based IC fabrication and packaging material distributors including Topco Scientific, Niching Industrial and Wahlee Industrial are expected to end 2018 with impressive annual...

LCD chemical material supplier Daxin Materials expects its shipments of organic coating materials for IC packaging process to further expand in 2019, having begun to ship such advanced...

Taiwan-based polarizer supplier Cheng Mei Materials Technology (formerly Chimei Materials Technology) has managed to swing back to profitability in the third quarter of 2018, ending...

ASML expects some delay in deliveries during the start of 2019, due to a fire at one of its suppliers of electronics components and modules.

Not everybody owns the "entrepreneurship DNA," and not too many people would choose to choose to create startups, according to Dan Shechtman, an Israeli materials scientist who was...

Catcher Technology is developing new casing materials and structures to meet higher performance requirements for casing products in the 5G era, as it aims to continue to sharpen its...

Power inductor specialist Chilisin Electronics has announced net profits hiked 130% from a year earlier to NT$513 million (US%16.6 million) in September 2018, with EPS reaching NT$...

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...

Taiflex Scientific has disclosed sales of its electronic materials products consisting of mainly flexible copper-clad laminates (FCCL) surged 30.1% sequentially and 10.9% on year...

A slowdown in silicone demand dragged down Topco Technologies' revenues for September 2018, which fell 8.3% on month and 0.9% on year to NT$705 million (US$23 million).

The teardowns and cost benchmarking team at IHS Markit has completed its preliminary physical review of the new iPhone XS Max. The model A1921 version of the smartphone sold in North...

Copper-clad laminate (CCL) supplier Iteq has announced consolidated revenues of NT$2.09 billion (US$67.8 million) for August 2018, up 9.2% on year and 4.4% sequentially.

Shin-Etsu Chemical has announced plans to invest nearly JPY110 billion (US$990.6 million) to expand silicone materials production capacity over the next two to three years.

The annual Semicon Taiwan tradeshow has kicked off in Taipei running from September 5-7, with this year's theme focusing on advanced manufacturing and testing technologies for artificial...

Front-end fab capacity in China will grow to account for 16% of the world's semiconductor fab capacity in 2018, according to SEMI. The share will increase to 20% by the end of 2020...

BenQ Materials has unveiled an optical film product, Advance True Black Functional Film (ATBF), which the company claimed will help enhance the display performance of 8K display pr...

BenQ Materials has said that its polarizer production lines are currently operating at full capacity with clear order visibility to last through the end of 2018, according to company...

GEM Services has enjoyed a ramp-up of orders for mid- and high-voltage MOSFET chips, as the Taiwan-based backend house is engaged in the supply chain of international IDMs which have...

Semiconductor material distributor Wahlee Industrial has entered the supply chain of the world's major automotive electronics vendors, and is optimistic about demand coming from the...