Local and foreign applicants applied for 33,954 patents in Taiwan in first-half 2020, decreasing 4.45% on year mainly due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to Intellectual Property...

China-based LED packaging service provider APT Electronics has withdrawn its application for IPO on Shanghai Stock Exchange's (SSE) Sci-Tech Innovation board six months after it submitted...

Many China's major semiconductor firms are rushing to raise funds from the Sci-Tech Innovation Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) to support their development of advanced...

China's major homegrown foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) is gearing up to raise funds to support its development of advanced manufacturing nodes, but...

SenseTime, a China-based startup developer of AI-based facial recognition, is expected to see difficulties in raising funds via IPO mainly due to impact of US-China trade disputes...

China-based first-tier IC design house Unisoc is eyeing business opportunity in the tablet market sparked by the coronavirus pandemic, according to the company's vice president of...

China's second-phase national IC industry investment fund (Big Fund) has committed CNY4.5 billion (US$637.16 million) to Unisoc Communications to support the Tsinghua Unigroup's chipmaking...

Kioxia (formerly Toshiba Memory) is reportedly looking to go public by October 2020, and therefore is striving to swing back to profit, according to industry sources.

Taiwanese and foreign applicants applied for 74,652 patents in 2019, increasing 1.68% on year, according to Intellectual Property Office (IPO) under Ministry of Economic Affairs.

China-based wireless audio SoC supplier BES Technic is to enhance its financial capability through an IPO amid heating competition in China's TWS (true wireless stereo) chip market,...

Tsinghua Unigroup's chipmaking arm Unisoc will enforce a capital increment of CNY5 billion (US$707.44 million) to support its development of core 5G and IoT chipsets, according to...

Taiwan-based and foreign applicants applied for 35,534 patents during first-half 2019, increasing 0.68% on year, according to Intellectual Property Office (IPO).

HeJian Technology (Suzhou), a chipmaking subsidiary of United Microelectronics (UMC), has halted its plans for an initial public offering on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE).

China-based Bitmain Technologies has reportedly placed around US$300 million worth of orders with TSMC for processing 30,000 wafers on 7nm node amid speculated sharp increase in demand...

Taiwan AOI (automated optical inspection) specialist Machvision has seen efforts of its Bethel Unicorn Incubator Center gradually pay off, with two out of four startups incubated...

Taiwan-based and foreign applicants applied for 17,243 patents in total during first-quarter 2019, decreasing 2.44% on year, according to Intellectual Property Office (IPO).

Acer is moving to carry out a dual transformation strategy in 2019, which has its core business focus on promoting ConceptD series PCs and its innovative business powered by multiple...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) applied for 944 patents in 2018, the most among all Taiwan-based applicants consisting of enterprises, research organizations and...

Japan-based Toshiba Memory Corp (TMC), now the world's No. 2 supplier of NAND flash memory chips with nearly 20% market share, is striving at full throttles to rival top supplier...

M31 Technology, a silicon intellectual property (IP) provider in TSMC's IP Alliance, will hold an IPO auction during January 3-7 ahead of its listing on the Taipei Exchange on January...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and its design services partners have recently seen orders for cryptocurrency mining chips pick up, as major crypto mining machine...

China Bitcoin ASIC supplier Bitmain plans to launch an initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong early 2019 at the latest, and is seeking a pre-IPO financing of US$1 billion to boost...

Taiwan-based PCB firm Zhen Ding Technology has announced that its subsidiary Avary Holding (Shenzhen) has secured approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) to...

IoT (Internet of Things) startup Ayla Networks has posted exponential revenue growths since 2015 and expects fast expansion in the next two years after acquiring US$130 million in...

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)...