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...

Networking IC design house Realtek Semiconductor, MEMS microphone supplier ZillTek Technology and RF component specialist Rafael Micro are expected to enjoy impressive sales in the...

Taiwan-based fabless chipmaker Elan Microelectronics and RichWave Technology, which have reportedly cut into the supply chain of Huawei, both saw their August revenues climb to record-high...

Unit prices for SoC chips used in true wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds have been falling, due mainly to stiff competition among chip suppliers, according to industry sources.

CMOS image sensor (CIS) packaging specialist Xintec has put increased focus on high-profit segments of healthcare, industrial control and automotive CIS applications, and expects...

Taiwan-based fingerprint ID chip designer Egis Technology (EgisTec) expects to enjoy higher revenue growth for the fourth quarter of 2019 than the third quarter thanks to growing...

With Intel's CPU shortages easing, many Taiwan-based vendors of chips for PCs and notebooks expect to post sequential double-digit revenue increases in the third quarter after seeing...

ASE Technology Holding, King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) and Lingsen Precision Industries are among the Taiwan-based backend houses looking to benefit from robust demand for MEMS sensors...

RF component specialist RichWave Technology has reported record-high revenues of NT$257 million (US$8.3 million) for June 2019.

IC design houses Novatek Microelectronics and Realtek Semiconductor both saw their May revenues climb to respective record-high levels, thanks to shipments of their new products.

Niche-market IC packaging house Xintec continues to expand its offerings and client portfolio in its target markets, and remains focused on wafer-level packaging, according to company...