As Apple may be keen on building a Chinese supply chain led by EMS provider Luxshare Precision Industry, Taiwan-based partners of the US vendor, such as ASE Technology, are quietly...

ASE Technology has obtained major backend orders for Apple Watch 6 slated for launch later this year, according to industry sources.

Taiwan's leading backend house ASE Technology is expected to start volume production of ToF (time of flight)-based LiDAR (light detection and ranging) sensing modules in the second...

China's top-3 backend houses JCET, Huatian Technology and Tongfu Microelectronics, now all among the world's top-10 IC assembly and testing firms, are gaining increasing business...

Leading IC backend house ASE Technology Holding saw its revenues for both second-quarter and first-half 2020 hit record highs, thanks mainly to high capacity utilization for wire...

Taiwan's niche-type IC designer PixArt Imaging has tapped into the supply chain of Lego's third-generation Mindstorms robots for kids with diverse optical and MEMS sensors, according...

IC test solutions provider Keystone Microtech is looking to expand its production capacity at its plant in Hsinchu, northern Taiwan to satisfy growing demand for networking chips,...

The fallout from the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 is expected to lower CMOS image sensor sales for the first time in 10 years, but new record-high revenues are seen next year, according...

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...

Specialty IC foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) has reported record revenues of NT$7.84 billion (US$260.9 million) for the first quarter of 2020, up 13.6% on year...

Eight-inch foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) has seen clear order visibility through the end of March, with no substantial shifts in customer orders despite the ongoing...

Over 10,000 employees have not yet returned to plants at three major Chinese backend service firms JCET, Tongfu Microelectronics and Tianshui Huatian Technology in the wake of the...

EV Group (EVG), a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, has announced it is partnering with Inkron, a manufacturer...

Global SOI (silicon on insulator) market scale is expected to double by 2024 from 2019 thanks to significant expansion in applications to mobile devices, communication infrastructure,...

Niche-market IC packaging house Xintec has disclosed its net profit surged 252% from a year ago to NT$74 million (US$2.46 million) in November 2019. EPS for the month came to NT$0....

The mainstream design of high-end active noise-cancelling true wireless stereo (TWS) headset has been trending toward hybrid driver configurations that have helped drive up the growth...

Taiwan-based IC testing interface supplier WinWay Technology has entered the supply chains of major chipmakers in the US and China with high-end customized IC sockets and will venture...

Global shipments of TWS (true wireless stereo) earphones are expected to surge sharply to 150-200 million sets in 2020 from around 100 million sets estimated for 2019, providing strong...

Total worldwide installed capacity for MEMS and sensors fabs is forecast to grow 25% to 4.7 million 200mm equivalent wafers per month from 2018 to 2023, driven by explosive demand...

STAr Technologies Inc, a leading supplier of semiconductor test probe cards, today announced the introduction of its new MEMS type micro-Cantilever probe card - STAr Aries Sigma-M,...

ASE Technology is expected to see its revenues grow quarter by quarter into 2020 thanks to strong packaging demand from major clients including Apple, Huawei's HiSilicon, MediaTek...

Backend house ASE Technology Holding has offered a development board based on its system-in-package (SiP) services for heterogeneous SoC chips designed for true wireless stereo (TWS)...

Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) has gained new growth momentum as it has received new VPC (vertical probe card) orders from Israeli and Chinese clients for processing ASICs, AI...

Wafer reclaim and thinning specialist Phoenix Silicon International (PSI) has filed a lawsuit with the Taiwan IP court against Integrated Service Technology (iST) accusing it of infringing...

As 7nm and more-advanced process nodes are increasingly applied to fabricating high-performance computing (HPC) CPUs and GPUs, demand for high-end IC sockets for SLT (system level...