Despite the COVID-19 shutdown of the Chinese economy earlier this year, China's share of the pure-play foundry market is forecast to be 22% in 2020, 17pp higher than it registered...

Renesas Electronics has announced a technology IP cooperation with Taiwan-based Andes Technology, a supplier of RISC-V based embedded CPU cores and associated SoC development environment...

Renesas Electronics has introduced an ultra-high-definition (UHD) surveillance camera reference design developed in collaboration with Novatek Microelectronics and designed by Systemtec...

Dialog Semiconductor has announced that its EcoXiP octal xSPI non-volatile memory (NVM), which was added to Dialog's portfolio through its recent acquisition of Adesto Technologies,...

The emerging market for silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) power semiconductors is rapidly evolving from a startup-dominated business to one led by large-established...

TSMC and other pure-play foundries have seen their mature process capacity utilization rates decline, due mainly to a substantial cutback in orders for automotive electronics applications,...

With analog sales of US$10.2 billion and a 19% market share, Texas Instruments held a firm grip on its position as the leading supplier of analog devices in 2019, according to IC...

Over the past decade, the IC industry has been paring down its older capacity as manufacturers have consolidated or transitioned to the fab-lite or fabless business models, according...

Macronix International has announced its secure flash memory is adopted for Renesas Electronics' embedded artificial intelligence solutions that use Arm-based processors for a range...

Renesas Electronics has announced it has developed an AI accelerator that performs CNN (convolutional neural network) processing at high speeds and low power to move towards the next...

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,...

Taiwan-based IC test solutions provider Ardentec has enjoyed a ramp-up of orders for automotive MCUs, and is vying for new orders for testing Internet of Vehicles (IoV) communication...

Taiwan led all regions/countries in wafer capacity with 21.8% share, a slight increase from 21.3% in 2017, according to IC Insights. Taiwan first became the global wafer capacity...

As international IDMs are moving at full throttles to develop lucrative high-voltage automotive MOSFETs, Taiwan mid-end and back-end supply chain players are gearing up to win long-term...

Macronix International has announced that Renesas Electronics has implemented dedicated octa peripheral interface to support Macronix memory devices with serial multi I/O. Among these...

Taiwan-based Ardentec has seen revenues generated from orders for automotive MCUs account for 22-25% of its overall revenues, and the company is eyeing new orders for auto sensors...

IC Insights has forecast that China-headquartered companies will spend US$11.0 billion in semiconductor industry capex in 2018, which would represent 10.6% of the expected worldwide...

Arm China will be dedicated to developing products exclusively for the China market, and plans for an IPO on the local stock exchange, according to Rene Haas, president of Arm's IP...

The automotive IC market is on pace to grow 18.5% to a new record high of US$32.3 billion in 2018, surpassing the previous record of US$27.2 billion set last year, according to IC...

The global market scale for automotive semiconductors is estimated to surpass US$40 billion in 2018 after surging 11% on year to US$35.7 billion in 2017 from US$32.2 billion, according...

Taiwan-based Ardentec is expected to enjoy growing revenues generated from orders for automotive MCUs in 2018, according to industry sources. The IC testing company has seen orders...

Taiwan-based Ardentec, which specializes in testing services for memory, logic and mixed-signal ICs, expects its new plant in Nanjing to enter volume production in the second quarter...

Semiconductor manufacturers around the world have closed or repurposed 92 wafer fabs from 2009-2017, according to data compiled by IC Insights.

Thanks to the growing development of smart and autonomous vehicles, the global market demand for automotive microcontrollers (MCU) is estimated to expand at a CAGR of 3% during 2017-2021,...

As the automotive-use chip sector is emerging as a new niche market with great development potential, Taiwan IC packaging and testing service providers are gearing up to scramble...