The frigid weather that halted production in the US state of Texas may prompt IDMs to mull adjusting outsourcing strategies. Seeking more support from manufacturing partners, particularly...

IDM vendors may consider outsourcing more of their production starting 2022, with Taiwan-based contract chipmakers being among the beneficiaries, according to industry sources.

Wistron Information Technology & Services (Wistron ITS), a provider of CMMI (capability maturity model integration) Level 3 IT outsourcing software services, has expressed optimism...

Despite speculation circulating recently that Intel is looking to outsource more chip production to TSMC, the CPU vendor does not seem to be ready to play a meaningful role in the...

Automotive chip vendors are striving for mid- and long-term capacity support from Taiwan-based foundries, according to sources at Taiwan-based fabless IC vendors.

Taiwan-based power IC backend specialists including Greatek Electronics, GEM Services and Lingsen Precision Industries have seen a ramp-up in packaging demand for consumer devices...

IC substrate maker Unimicron Technology is slated to complete construction of a new plant in Yangmei, northern Taiwan by the end of 2020, followed by process optimization and validation...

Intel is expected to step up its outsourcing of chips and processors, particularly GPUs and IoT chips, for years to come, according to sources at Taiwan-based outsourced assembly...

TSMC internally does not consider orders for Intel's processors as long-term ones, and therefore is unlikely to build additional production capacity for the new contract, according...

MediaTek, Aspeed Technology and ASMedia Technology are expected to post impressive sales results for 2020 benefiting from the ongoing US-China trade tensions and clients' new products,...

Shipments from ODM and IDH companies grew by 4% annually in 2019 against the declining trend in the overall smartphone market, according to Counterpoint Research. This was a result...

The coronavirus outbreak has resulted in labor shortage and shipment disruption in China's supply chain.

Global notebook shipments were weaker-than-expected in the fourth quarter of 2019 due to Intel's ongoing CPU shortages and major brands stopping stocking extra inventory in the wake...

Worldwide first-tier ODMs and EMS providers including Quanta Computer, Pegatron, Wistron and Flextronics have begun crossing into the manufacturing of augmented reality (AR) glasses,...

Nintendo is reportedly planning to release in mid-2020 a new model of Switch, which will begin volume production at the end of first-quarter 2020, according to sources from the related...

Global makers of CMOS image sensors (CIS) are expected to embrace explosive demand for higher-specs CIS devices for application to autonomous vehicles in addition to handsets, which...

Taiwan's CMOS image sensor (CIS) packaging specialists including Kingpak Technology, Xintec,VisEra Technologies and Tong Hsing Electronic Industries are expected to benefit significantly...

Eight-inch IC foundries have seen their fabless customers engaged in the fingerprint sensor, touchscreen IC, analog chip and LCD driver IC sectors step up their pace of orders recently,...

The software outsourcing sector is promising in the next 10 years, driven by the ever-expanding 5G and AI applications, according to Wistron Information Technology & Services.

Global server shipments are expected to increase 12.8% sequentially in the third quarter of 2019 with a flat on-year performance, but shipments for all of the year are likely to drop...

Intel is planning to cut prices of its eighth- and ninth-generation desktop processors by 10-15% and has already notified its downstream PC and motherboard partners, according to...

Taiwan IC designers are now moving to place additional orders with foundry houses and thicken their inventories lest they should suffer insufficient foundry capacity support in the...

Renesas is reportedly moving toward a fab-lite business model by temporarily shutting down some frontend and backend fabs, with its Taiwan-based OSAT partners including ASE, Ardentec,...

King Yuan Electronics (KYEC), Kingpak Technology and GEM Services are expected to see their sales growth exceed the seasonal average in the first half of 2019, outperforming their...

Infineon will be stepping up its outsourcing of commodity products to Taiwan-based foundries and backend houses, while keeping the production of its differentiated products that generate...