More Taiwan-based IC design houses are moving to strengthen partnerships with foundries in China so as to land more orders from Chinese brand vendors seeking to cut reliance on US...

Taiwan-based clean room engineering specialist Acter is expected to see its revenues pick up steadily in 2020 as major clients in Taiwan and China will boost capex to step up major...

Buoyed by strong demand for NRE and ASIC design services, Global Unichip and Alchip have seen clear order visibility through the first half of 2020 and are expected to smoothly fulfill...

China's de-Americanization campaign, a move aimed at cutting reliance on the US suppliers of crucial semiconductor components and technologies, has emerged as the largest black swan...

More China-based firms have become keen on in-house development of new-generation CPUs and GPUs, allowing Taiwan IC design service providers, especially those associated with TSMC,...

China's homegrown processor makers will be ready for commercial shipments of their newly developed CPUs and GPUs in 2020, according to industry sources.

China has instructed system integrators associated with defense, networking, finance and transportation sectors to adopt homegrown chips as much as possible, prompting Taiwan-based...

Silicon wafer demand has stayed robust from China's chipmaking industry in line with the country's ongoing efforts to increase self-sufficiency in semiconductors, according to sources...

China's Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) is likely to kick off volume production of 64-layer 3D NAND flash chips ahead of schedule, as it is striving to gain orders from Huawei,...

In efforts to mitigate impacts of US trade sanctions against Huawei and tariff hikes on Chinese imports, the China government has instructed domestic enterprises to purchase more...

China's largest telecom equipment maker Huawei and its chipmaking arm HiSilicon are ambitiously proceeding with their vertical and horizontal deployments in diverse chip solutions...

The different sectors of the semiconductor industry are clearly defined with specific work, and therefore each sector's self-sufficiency rate must be looked at in their own right...

Huawei's IC design subsidiary HiSilicon may unseat Taiwan's MediaTek as the largest IC design house in Asia in 2019, as the China-based company is set to roll out diverse new chipset...

Along with rampant IoT development, MEMS-based sensing solutions will be increasingly applied to diverse segments such as smartphones, wearable electronics devices, and automotive...

China-based IC production is forecast to exhibit a strong 2018-2023 CAGR of 15%, according to IC Insights. Considering that China-based IC production was only US$23.8 billion in 2018,...

The huge annual trade deficit of up to US$375 billion is definitely a major reason for the US to raise tariffs on goods imported from China, but the trade war seems to be more of...

Foxconn Electronics' (Hon Hai Precision Industry) ambition in the chipmaking sector is taking shape. The Taiwan-based conglomerate reportedly has stuck a deal with China's Zhuhai...

The combined output in the EU, US and India for PV modules is short of annual demand by an estimated 45GWp, according to China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery...

United Microelectronics (UMC), the second-largest Taiwan-based pure-play foundry, disclosed recently plans to list its HeJian-led China operations on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE)...

Zhao Weiguo has resigned as chairman of both Unisplendour and Unigroup Guoxin, as well as from their boards of directors. Zhao remains chairman of China's state-owned Tsinghua Unigroup,...

With the notebook industry entering a plateau period, Taiwan's leading notebook hinge maker Shin Zu Shings (SZS) is aggressively expanding product lines to include hinges for auto...

Notebook hinge maker Sinher Technology is installing two more batch furnaces to expand in-house MIM (metal injection molding) production capacity to meet growing demand, bringing...

Though still a global bellwether in many areas of semiconductor technologies, Japan's semiconductor industry is significantly losing ground in world markets, as most Japanese players,...

Toppan Printing welcomes the potential for China-based companies to become partners, according to the Japan-based photomask vendor. Toppan is looking to work closely with China-based...

China is striving to substantially improve the self-sufficiency rate for ICs in the nation. With strong government support, manufacturing capacities at China-based IC foundries and...