Despite AI (artificial intelligence) technologies and applications still at a nascent development stage, global tech giants have rushed to invest heavily in making strategic deployments...

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...

Digital camera ODM and imaging solution developer Altek has disclosed it has become a design partner for Qualcomm by offering reference designs for two latest Qualcomm SoCs.

China-based artificial intelligence (AI) chip developers including Hisilicon Semiconductor, Cambricon, DeePhi Tech, Horizon Robotics and Bitmain have been aggressively planning new...

China smartphone vendors including Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi have lately launched their respective 2018 flagship devices boasting high price-performance ratios and multiple smart functions,...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is expected to see its March revenues rebound to over NT$100 billion (US$3.43 billion), driven by a ramp-up of 16nm and 12nm chip...

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.

China-based companies have shown the largest fabless IC market share gain since 2010, according to IC Insights. China-based fabless chipmakers collectively captured an only 5% share...

Smartphone vendors in the Android camp are rushing to incorporate in-display fingerprint recognition technology into their 18:9 all-screen models as they have turned conservative...

The new Samsung Galaxy S9+ equipped with 64GB of NAND flash memory (model number SM-G965U1) carries a bill of materials (BOM) cost of US$375.80, much higher than for previous versions...

MediaTek has dismissed a Taiwan media report that claimed the company had been approached by Broadcom about a takeover.

TSMC's 16nm and 12nm process production capacity has been tight in the first quarter of 2018 driven by strong demand for GPUs and ASICs for cryptocurrency mining, according to industry...

MediaTek's recently-introduced Helio P60 mobile SoC that comes with AI capabilities has been adopted by Oppo and Meizu for their upcoming smartphone models, according to a report...

Digitimes Research estimates total shipments of smartphone application processors (AP) worldwide will grow 1.5% on year to 1.67 billion units in 2018. The slowing growth in the smartphone...

With the imminent commercialization of 5G mobile technologies and services, mobile chipset suppliers, telecom operators and related supply chains will all face the initial incorporation...

Himax Technologies has presented Android smartphone samples equipped with the company's 3D sensing total solution at the 2018 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The solution is ready...

Shipments of smartphone-use application processors in China are expected to decline 18.2% sequentially in the first quarter of 2018, according to Digitimes Research.

Based on surveys Digitimes Research conducted in China in December 2017, shipments of smartphone application processors (AP) to the China market in 2017 were able to maintain positive...

Samsung Electronics and Qualcomm Technologies have announced their intention to expand their decade-long foundry relationship into EUV (extreme ultra violet) lithography process technology,...

Qualcomm has announced that Qualcomm River Holdings, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, has reached an agreement with NXP Semiconductors to increase to US$127.50 per...

Huawei is expected to increase the adoption of smartphone solutions from its chipset subsidiary, HiSilicon Technologies, in 2018 which will add more pressure on Qualcomm and MediaTek,...

Shipments of NB-IoT (narrow band IoT) chip modules to the China market may grow exponentially from five million pieces in 2017 to 100 million pieces in 2018 as demand for such chips...

Nokia has signed MoU agreements with a number of telecom operators in Taiwan calling for collaborating efforts to accelerate their 5G deployments while further enhancing related 4G...

China-based Unigroup Spreadtrum RDA, a merger of IC designers Spreadtrum Communications and RDA Microelectronics under Tsinghua Unigroup, is poised to perform better in the smartphone...

AI-based facial recognition technology has advanced drastically to achieve a negligible deviation after outperforming human eyes for the first time in 2014, according to Xiaogang...