Samsung Electronics has introduced a new line of premium smartphones, the Galaxy S10. The Galaxy S10+ features upgraded specifications; the Galaxy S10e is built for users who want...

Himax Technologies expects to post a revenue decline of 14-19% sequentially in the first quarter of 2019, when the fabless chipmaker expects its LCD driver IC sales generated from...

Smartphone application processor (AP) shipments to China vendors in fourth-quarter 2018 declined 10% on quarter with system manufacturers adjusting shipment targets downward. As system...

China smartphone vendor Oppo is gearing up to extend its sales tentacles into Europe countries, particularly the UK, Turkey and Poland in 2019, as part of its efforts to pursue new...

Brand smartphone vendors may see their profits fall significantly in 2019 as they are investing heavily in upgrading their models despite sluggish terminal market demand, according...

Taiwan-based backend houses are expected to ramp up production capacity for chip-on-film (COF) packaging in the third quarter of 2019 to satisfy growing demand for smartphone panel...

As the global handset market is entering the 5G era in 2019, leading vendors such as Samsung Electronics, Huawei, Oppo, Xiaomi and Vivo are moving aggressively to launch 5G smartphone...

Asustek Computer reportedly has been in talk with China-based mobile game distributor Tencent to release a gaming smartphone that supports Tencent's games, but has recently encountered...

Huawei has set ambitious goals for its smartphone operations in 2019, aiming to unseat Samsung as the world's largest smartphone vendor, according to industry sources.

China-based vendors' smartphone shipments are expected to fall 8.2% on year to below 140 million units in the first quarter of 2019, as exports will slow down due to seasonality and...

Taiwan's small- to medium-size panel shipments slipped 22.1% sequentially and 23.1% on year to arrive at only 240.55 million units in the fourth quarter of 2018 due primarily to se...

Shipments of Android-based smartphones featuring 3D sensing technology are set to boom in 2019, propelled by the increasing adoption of back-end time-of-flight (ToF) sensor solutions,...

Smartphone shipments in the China market are forecast to continue to fall over 10% on-year to below 80 million in the first quarter of 2019 following an around 20% decline in fourth-quarter...

Samsung Electronics and Apple remained the top two semiconductor chip buyers in 2018, representing 17.9% of the total worldwide market, according to Gartner. Meanwhile, the top-10...

China's handset brands have continued gearing up efforts to upgrade hardware specs of their new smartphones to be launched in 2019 as they seek to further expand global sales, according...

Worldwide shipments of smartphone application processors are expected to fall for the second consecutive year in 2019, as the outlook for the segment has weakened by uncertainty over...

NAND flash prices will continue falling in the second half of 2019, but the pace will be more moderate, according to Wallace Kou, president and CEO of Silicon Motion Technology.

MediaTek expects to post a revenue decline of 12-20% sequentially in the first quarter of 2019, and flat or slight revenue growth in all of the year.

Xiaomi reportedly has been using flexible AMOLED panels from China's flat panel maker Visionox to develop its foldable smartphones, according to industry sources.

Smartphone shipments in China totaled 396 million units in 2018, the lowest level since 2013, according to Canalys. Shipments for the fourth quarter of 2018 fell for the seventh consecutive...

Despite the raging US-led campaign to boycott 5G network equipment supplied by China's leading telecom equipment maker Huawei, Taiwan PCB makers are less worried about its possible...

BOE Technology, which has adopted an aggressive strategy by foraying into the flexible AMOLED panel sector and stopping further investment in LTPS TFT LCD technology, is likely to...

With more LCD panel suppliers capable of producing in commercial volume OLED displays for smartphones, Taiwan-based driver IC firms and related backend houses are gearing up to grow...

Fingerprint sensor supplier Egis Technology (Egistec) swung to net losses of NT$40 million (US$1.3 million) in the fourth quarter of 2018, while consolidated revenues fell 24.4% sequentially...

While chipmakers and brand vendors of smartphones are striving to seek a preemptive presence in the segments of 5G IPs, patents and AP chips, the most critical 5G modem chip solutions...