Taiwan-based Spirox, which distributes packaging and testing equipment, has signed a new contract with National Instruments (NI) under which Spirox will sell NI's STS (semiconductor...

Billings among North American manufacturers of semiconductor production equipment grew sequentially in April 2019 ending three consecutive months of sequential drops.

Intel replaced Samsung as the number one quarterly semiconductor supplier in the fourth quarter of 2018, after losing the lead spot to Samsung in the second quarter of 2017, according...

Backend house Orient Semiconductor Electronics (OSE) has seen its capacity utilization rate for flash memory products climb above 80% recently, according to industry sources.

After three consecutive years of growth, worldwide semiconductor revenues will decrease 7.2% to US$440 billion in 2019, according to IDC.

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...

Samsung has a far smaller share than TSMC in the wafer foundry sector, but Samsung's technologies built from its experience in memory and Exynos series AP production are as good as...

The worldwide semiconductor equipment market, which had a scale of US$60.5 billion in 2018, is controlled mostly by companies in the West. The development of China's semiconductor...

Pingtouge Semiconductor, Alibaba's semiconductor subsidiary, reportedly has placed orders for 7nm chip solutions with Global Unichip and TSMC.

Taiwan-based MOSFET firms Excelliance MOS and Sinopower Semiconductor have reported on-year increases of 49% and 51.5%, respectively, in net profits for the first quarter of 2019.

The board of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has approved capital appropriations of US$3.98 billion for the purpose of upgrading...

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...

United Microelectronics (UMC) saw its April revenues climb to a six-month high, while revenues at Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) reached...

Undoubtedly the semiconductor industry is a key factor underlying the US-China trade war. However, when we try to understand the strength and progress of China's semiconductor industry,...

China-based pure-play foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) expects to post a revenue increase of 17-19% sequentially in the second quarter of 2019, with gross...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is on track to move 5nm process technology to volume production in 2020, and reportedly has plans...

Taiwan IC designers are now moving to place additional orders with foundry houses and thicken their inventories lest they should suffer insufficient foundry capacity support in the...

The semiconductor industry is expected to see demand pick up significantly in the second half of 2019 after gradually hitting the bottom, and Taiwan can compete well in the global...

Conditions in the global semiconductor market have deteriorated rapidly since the start of the year, with IHS Markit revising its 2019 growth outlook to a decline of 7.4% in revenu...

Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) remains cautious about its outlook for the second quarter of 2019, as the specialty IC foundry has seen its customers adjust inventory at...

Microcontroller unit specialist Holtek Semiconductor is expected to see its 32-bit MCU shipments for wireless Bluetooth headsets surge and likely hit the five million mark in 2019,...

ASE Technology Holding has reported net profit of NT$2.04 billion (US$66.2 million) for the first quarter of 2019, down 62% sequentially. EPS for the...

Worldwide sales of semiconductors totaled US$96.8 billion during the first quarter of 2019, a decrease of 15.5% over the previous quarter and 13% less than the first quarter of 2018,...

IC backend house ASE Technology Holding and wafer probe card specialist Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) are both engaged in the supply chain for HiSilicon's next-generation flagship...

Taiwan-based Group Up Industrial (GP), dedicated to supplying automation and semiconductor dry process equipment, has seen clear order visibility through the third quarter of 2019...