Samsung Electronics has started wafer production of its 7nm LPP with extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology, according to the company.

The production value of the global foundry industry is expected to grow by a CAGR of 6.2% to reach US$81.94 billion in 2023, the final year of a five-year forecast period, driven...

Chipmakers are encountering low manufacturing yield rates of 3D 4bits/cell (QLC) NAND chips, and substandard chips due to the poor QLC NAND yields may cause disruption to the market...

Vietnam has a population of near 100 million and there are over 70 million handset and Internet users, providing a good foundation for stable development of the country's information...

Facing the great waves of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Vietnam is keen on promoting e-government projects, and the government there has selected five main cities, including Hanoi,...

Samsung Electronics will offer a 75-inch MicroLED TV in 2019 with the display panel to be made up of 30- by 50-micron micro LED chips produced by PlayNitide, according to industry...

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix both intend to defer their capacity expansion plans, as a slowdown in customer demand will be dragging down DRAM and NAND flash memory prices through...

With sub-10nm node manufacturing requiring huge capex, a number of foundries have slowed down their investment pace while fabless chipmakers stick with 14/12nm products for cost reasons...

Global semiconductor industry revenues grew 4.4% sequentially to a record high of US$120.8 billion in the second quarter of 2018, according to IHS Markit.

With the continuation of the strong surge in the DRAM and NAND flash markets over the past year, Samsung Electronics went from having only 1% more total semiconductor sales than Intel...

Falling NAND flash prices are set to accelerate the adoption of high-capacity SSDs in notebooks and other consumer computing devices, according to market observers.

As most of the 12-inch wafer foundry fabs built in China in 2016-2017 will kick off commercial run in late 2018, China's combined monthly foundry capacities at 12-inch fabs will surge...

The global DRAM memory industry's output value grew 11.3% sequentially to record-high US$25.69 billion in the second quarter of 2018, according to figures from research firm DRAMeX...

Samsung has announced plans to invest KRW25 trillion (US$22.38 billion) over the next three years in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI), 5G, automotive electronics components...

Samsung Electronics' semiconductor division enjoyed record-high earnings in the second quarter of 2018, driven by robust demand for DRAM memory used in data center applications and...

While Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is expected to ramp up shipments of new-generation iPhone CPUs starting in September, the company and other foundry houses...

As Samsung Electronics is expected to roll out smartphones packed with 5G-enabled power amplifiers (PAs) in mid-2019 at the earliest, a few Taiwan-based PA makers will manage to enter...

With the advent of the 5G era, artificial intelligence (AI) applications will be in full swing, prompting chipmakers to develop multiple xPU chips beyond Intel's CPU and Nvidia's...

Mobile phone production in India continues gaining expansion momentum, as global handset supply chain players are gathering there setting up manufacturing operations to better tap...

Samsung Electronics will expand its capex for NAND flash memory to around US$9 billion in 2019, up from about US$6.4 billion in 2018, a recent Chosun Ilbo report quoted industry...

Samsung Electronics has announced that its strategic foundry collaboration with Arm will be expanded to 7/5-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technology to remain a step ahead in the...

Samsung Electronics will reportedly overhaul the structure of its quantum dot (QD)-based QLED TVs with plans to introduce QDoG (QD on Glass)-based QLED TVs in 2019, according to a...

Taiwan-based Supreme Electronics, which distributes mainly memory devices and display panels for Samsung Electronics in Greater China, has seen demand for smartphones pick up on se...

As part of their efforts to develop a preemptive presence in the 5G era, global chipmakers are stepping up the development of IoT chipset solutions as a warm-up game for exploring...

Global semiconductor industry revenues declined 3.4% in the first quarter of 2018 falling to US$115.8 billion, according to IHS Markit. Semiconductor industry performance was negatively...