Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association (TSIA) recently hosted a banquet to bid farewell to Morris Chang following his retirement. The guests there - including leaders in the tech...

Despite foundry quotes at 8-inch fabs in Taiwan and China to see 20-30% hikes in the third quarter of 2018, IC design houses across the Taiwan Straits are gearing up to vie for foundry...

When Texas Instruments' new engineer Jack Kilby invented the world's first IC in 1958, no one could imagine that 60 years later, ICs have deeply rooted in Taiwan, now the world's...

Affected by the abrupt fading of crypto mining craze starting in April 2018, suppliers of mining graphic cards are plagued by increasingly high inventories, and players in the supply...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is expected to see its second-quarter revenues meet the company's guidance given in mid-April, and will have its third-quarter revenues...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is likely to move its 7nm process technology to mass production ahead of schedule to meet growing demand from its fabless clients...

MediaTek is expected to introduce an enhanced version of its Helio P60 SoC designed for midrange smartphones that come with artificial intelligence (AI) features in the second half...

Morris Chang said at TSMC's annual shareholders meeting on June 5 that he believes the dual leadership of Mark Liu and CC Wei will create another "miraculous" growth for the pure-play...

MediaTek has newly released its 5G modem chipset solution, the Helio M70, to be fabricated using TSMC's 7nm process incorporating EUV technology, and will kick off official shipments...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced Mark Liu, currently co-CEO and president of the pure-play foundry, has been promoted to chairman effective immediate...

US GPU chipmaker Nvidia has unveiled two new products at Computex 2018: the Isaac developer platform and Jetson Xavier, both built to power autonomous robots and bring AI (artificial...

The global smartphone applications processor (AP) market declined 5% on year to US$20.2 billion in 2017, while the tablet AP market grew 3% to US$2 billion, according to Strategy...

Gudeng Precision Industrial has enjoyed a ramp-up of front opening unified pod (FOUP) orders from 12-inch IC foundries in China and Taiwan, while shipments of its extreme ultraviolet...

Second-tier IC foundries based in China and Taiwan are planning to hike quotes for 8-inch capacity by 20-30% in the third quarter of 2018, according to sources in the Taiwan IC design...

China's IC industry output value grew 20.8% from a year earlier to CNY115.29 billion (US$18.1 billion) in the first quarter of 2018, according to statistics released by the China...

Silicon wafer prices are estimated to further rise 20% on average in 2018 after posting the same size of hike in 2017 on robust market demand, and the quotes are expected to trend...

Foundry houses raising quotes for 8-inch capacity amid tight supply are creating pressure on IC designers' profit margins in the short term, but in the long run could be a stabilizing...

Lagging behind Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in the development of fan-out wafer level packaging (FOWLP) technology, Taiwan's main OSAT (outsourced semiconductor...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reported consolidated revenues of NT$81.87 billion (US$2.74 billion) for April 2018, down 21% sequentially but up 44% on year.

The government in Taiwan is actively taking actions to cushion possible undesirable impacts on the country's economic and trade development from the ongoing trade spats between the...

Intel's new-generation H310 desktop processors fabricated on 14nm process reportedly have run out of supply in less than one month after the chipset was launched in early April 2018,...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) 7nm FinFET process has obtained orders for the production of AI-capable SoCs from a number of China-based chip firms, such as Huawei's...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) new 12-inch wafer plant in Nanjing has started shipping its first batch of wafers to Bitmain Technologies, according to a recent...

Taiwan-based IC test equipment supplier Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) has reported consolidated revenues of NT$740 million (US$24.90 million) for the first quarter of 2018,...

Thanks to the booming development of IoT (Internet of Things) devices and applications, Taiwan-based specialists in semiconductor materials analysis, IC test and verification services,...