Photomask supplier Taiwan Mask has reported net profits of NT$199 million (US$6.5 million) for 2018 after experiencing three years of losses.

Following a record-breaking 2017, worldwide semiconductor photomask sales set a new high of US$4.04 billion in 2018, according to SEMI.

As a joint venture between US photomask maker Photronics and Japan's Dai Nippon Printing (DNP), Photronics DNP Mask broke ground in mid-2018 for building a photomask plant in Xiamen,...

Photomask supplier Taiwan Mask swung to net losses of NT$68.38 million (US$2.21) in the third quarter of 2018, due to losses arising from the value of its financial assets. EPS came...

Taiwan-based semiconductor equipment and materials supplier Gudeng Precision Industrial ended the first half of 2018 with consolidated revenues of NT$717 million (US$23.52 million),...

With TSMC ramping up its 7nm chip output and gearing up for 5nm risk production, the foundry's ecosystem partners including equipment and photomask suppliers, IP developers and EDA...

Photomask supplier Taiwan Mask is expected to return profitable in 2018, following three years of losses, according to market watchers.

The IC industry in Hefei is one of the fast-growing IC industry clusters in China. In less than three years, a total of 129 IC companies including fabless firms, foundries and backend...

Taiwan-based IC design houses have expressed caution about their gross margin performance in the second half of 2018, as they will encounter rising costs including higher quotes asked...

After several years of incremental increases, the worldwide semiconductor photomask market surged 13% to a record-high US$3.75 billion in 2017, according to SEMI.

Bolstered by China's large population, solid mobile network infrastructures, and aggressive deployments in IoT and AI applications, the localization of its semiconductor industry...

Photomask solution provider Photronics has held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new FPD facility in Hefei China recently. The new plant, named Photronics Mask Corporation Hefei...

Toppan Photomasks has announced that additional investment will be made in new, leading-edge equipment for mass production of advanced photomasks at Toppan Photomasks Company Shanghai...

Toppan Printing is gearing up for its foundry customers' migration to 7nm process technology in 2018 and 5nm process in 2019, according to the Japan-based photomask vendor.

Globalfoundries will first use EUV lithography technology in its 7nm FinFET node, and has started to work with AMD in the process development, said company CTO Gary Patton at a recent...