Digitimes Research estimates total shipments of smartphone application processors (AP) worldwide will grow 1.5% on year to 1.67 billion units in 2018. The slowing growth in the smartphone...

Flexible PCB manufacturer Career Technology has reached an agreement with Eversol to buy the solar wafer maker's factory in Taoyuan, northern Taiwan for NT$1.57 billion (US$53.6 million),...

The worldwide wearables market continued its upward trajectory in both the fourth quarter of 2017 and full year 2017 with total shipment volumes reaching new records. Moreover, thanks...

With the notebook market entering the traditional slow season, the worldwide top-5 notebook brands saw their combined shipments drop for the second consecutive month in January 2018...

Taiwan-based touch panel maker General Interface Solution (GIS) has reportedly acquired the backend notebook LCD module (LCM) assembly equipment from Samsung Display, further enhancing...

Samsung unveiled its new flagship Galaxy S9 smartphones on the eve of the official start of the 2018 Mobile World Congress (MWC) running February 26-March 1 in Barcelona, seeking...

At MWC 2018, Samsung launched the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus with an evolutionary design building on Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus. Samsung is focusing on enhanced camera capabilities to differentiate...

Led by mobile phones, small appliances and wearables, shipments of consumer electronics devices enabled with wireless charging rose 40% in 2017 compared to the previous year. In all,...

Facebook is set to officially foray into the global smart speaker market in mid-2018 by launching two new models, codenamed Aloha and Fiona - both with 15-inch touchscreens - in July...

In a clear sign of recovery from a disappointing downturn just two years ago, global spending on semiconductors rose to a five-year high in 2017, spurred by a hike in the pricing...

Although some Taiwan makers in the iPhone X supply chain have been affected by Apple's move to scale back shipments of the device, some others including Career Technology, E&R...

Apple shipped 77.316 million iPhone devices in the fiscal 2018 first quarter ended December 30, 2017, up 66% on quarter but down 1% on year, according to a company announcement.

Universal Scientific Industrial (USI), a subsidiary of backend service provider Advanced Semiconductor Engineer (ASE), saw its net profits surge 63.1% to CNY1.31 billion (US$208.7...

Worldwide notebook shipments, not including detachable 2-in-1 devices, performed weaker than expected and arrived at only around 41.15 million units in the fourth quarter of 2017,...

MediaTek is expected to land Wi-Fi ASIC orders for the next-generation HomePad devices to be launched by Apple in 2019, according to a Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN)...

Samsung Electronics and Apple remained the top two semiconductor chip buyers in 2017, representing 19.5% of the total worldwide market, according to Gartner. Samsung and Apple together...

Apple has been developing four next-generation iPhone projects: a 5.7- to 5.8-inch LCD device; a 6.0- to 6.1-inch LCD device; a 6.0- to 6.1-inch OLED device; and a 6.4- to 6.5-inch...

Taiwan-based IC test equipment provider Chuangwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) has tapped into the supply chain of Samsung Electronics, as it has recently received orders for wafer probe...

Smartphone sales in the Taiwan market slid 5.5% sequentially to 614,000 units in December 2017, as sales momentum of Apple's iPhone X and iPhone 8 devices began to slow down, according...

The Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) traditional PC market (desktops, notebooks, and workstations) recorded slight growth in the fourth quarter of 2017, with the market's shipments...

Third-party smartphone application processor providers including Qualcomm, MediaTek and Spreadtrum Communications are expected to adopt a more conservative approach to promoting their...

Samsung Electronics plans to begin selling its in-house developed Exynos mobile processors to other smartphone vendors in order to expand the scale of its smartphone chip platform,...

Qualcomm's smartphone application processor (AP) shipments are expected to decline slightly in 2018, as top-tier smartphone vendors' in-house-developed APs - which cater to their...

Touch panel maker General Interface Solution (GIS) is expected to land more LCM (LCD module) orders from Apple, which reportedly plans to release an entry-level 13-inch MacBook in...

Metal-alloy chassis makers Catcher Technology, Foxconn Technology, Ju Teng International Holdings and Casetek Holdings plan to develop motor chassis for electric vehicles (EVs), as...