Global semiconductor revenues derived from chip usage in electronic equipment and devices amounted to US$111.4 billion at the end of first-quarter 2018, up a significant 17% from...

Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) under China's state-owned Tsinghua Unigroup has obtained its first orders for commercial production of over 10,000 3D NAND flash chips for use in...

The world's leading semiconductor suppliers have significantly increased their combined market share over the past decade. According to IC Insights, the top-5 semiconductor suppliers...

The global supply of NAND flash chips remains slightly short of demand which will continue to drag down the memory prices during the second quarter of 2018, according to DRAMeXchan...

Micron Technology has announced general availability of the 128GB and 256GB density of edge storage microSD card solutions and collaboration with several leading video surveillance...

Samsung Electronics, Toshiba, Micron Technology and SK Hynix all plan to expand their NAND flash production capacities which will boost the overall output worldwide in 2019, according...

Taiwan-based Innodisk, which develops and manufactures industrial-class storage products, will soon begin to operate a new plant which will increase its overall production capacity...

Taiwan-based DRAM chipmaker Nanya Technology has reported consolidated revenues of NT$6.72 billion (US$230.1 million) for March 2018, up 60.3% on year and 13.4% sequentially.

China's Tsinghua Unigroup has readied CNY370 billion (US$58.74 billion) to support its semiconductor deployments in the next five years, and plans to inject up to US$100 billion into...

Memory-IC backend specialist Powertech Technology (PTI) has announced consolidated revenues of NT$5.65 billion (US$193.5 million) for March 2018, up 16% sequentially and 32.4% on...

Micron Technology is adding a new facility to its existing 12-inch wafer plant for the manufacture of NAND flash memory in Singapore. The new facility is expected to come online by...

Tsinghua Unigroup has struck deals with Intel to source 3D NAND flash chips from the US firm in 2018 and 2019, while having subsidiary Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) continue...

Global semiconductor revenues grew 21.7% to US$429.1 billion in 2017, the highest year-over-year growth in 14 years, according to IHS Markit.

A bright prospect for NAND flash market growth has created uncertainty about whether Toshiba can complete the sale of its memory-chip unit.

Adata Technology's board of directors has decided to distribute a cash dividend per share of NT$6 (US$0.21) for 2017, when the memory module maker generated earnings per share of...

Memory backend specialist Orient Semiconductor Electronics (OSE) has obtained new orders for USB PD (power delivery) chips from Weltrend Semiconductor, according to industry source...

NAND flash device controller IC supplier Phison Electronics has reported net profits of NT$5.82 billion (US$199.2 million) for 2017 hitting a record high. EPS for the year reached...

Solid State System (3S) expects to post sequential decreases in revenues and gross margin for the first quarter of 2018, due to a seasonal slowdown in orders for NAND flash device...

IC Insights has raised its IC market growth forecast for 2018 to 15% from 8% estimated previously. The revision was made due to higher-than-expected output value of the DRAM segmen...

A brief power outage took place at Samsung Electronics' NAND flash plant in Pyeongtaek on March 9, Taiwan's Central News Agency (CNA) has reported, citing market...

SSD suppliers have recently cut prices to promote their 64- and 72-layer 3D devices, which is expected to accelerate the adoption of SSDs in notebooks, according to DRAMeXchange.

Fab equipment spending will increase at 5% in 2019 for a fourth consecutive year of growth, according to SEMI. China is expected to be the main driver of fab equipment spending growth...

Prices for upstream wafers will rise more than 30% in 2018, according to Miin Wu, chairman for Taiwan-based Macronix International, a supplier of flash memory and mask ROM chips.

Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached US$37.6 billion for the month of January 2018, an increase of 22.7% compared to the January 2017 total of US$30.6 billion, according to the...

Revenues of the global NAND flash industry grew only 6.8% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2017, according to DRAMeXchange. Traditionally seasonal factors will continue to influence...