IC materials distributors Topco Scientific and Wah Lee Industrial saw their revenues for second-quarter and first-half 2020 register impressive increases thanks mainly to clients...

Passive components maker Yageo saw its second-quarter revenues climb 34.4% sequentially to NT$13.47 billion (US$457.7 million), thanks mainly to improvement in factory utilization...

Soitec has announced a business agreement with Qualcomm Technologies on the supply of piezoelectric-on-insulator (POI) engineered substrates for 4G and 5G RF filters. Soitec's piezoelectric-on-insulator...

Taiwan-based semiconductor equipment suppliers engaged in TSMC's supply chain are set to be among the beneficiaries of the foundry house's advanced process capacity expansion with...

Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) is urging international material and equipment makers to invest in Taiwan where demand for semiconductor equipment, especially from the...

PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials will merge with Exojet Technology, a maker of conductive paste for passive components, PCBs and touch panels, with the former to be...

Taiwan-based Eternal Materials continues to utilize as high as 90% of its dry-film photoresist production capacity, thanks to brisk PCB demand for base stations, servers, notebooks...

Group Up Industrial (GP) has clear order visibility through the third quarter of 2020, thanks to growing demand from its PCB and IC substrate clients looking to ramp up their offerings...

CCL maker Elite Material (EMC) has gained validation from server brands and datacenter clients with their orders gradually picking up recently, according to the company.

GlobalWafers has held a groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of subsidiary Taisil Electronic Materials, and will use offshore capital to fund the expansion, which is set to complete...

BenQ Materials expects its lithium-ion battery separator film business to make headway in 2021 as such products are likely to enter the supply chain of a top Japanese automaker next...

Ventec International has seen its shipments of auto-use thermal aluminum substrate materials significantly affected by the coronavirus pandemic's impacts on global car sales in the...

UMC has vowed to appeal a Taiwan court ruling agianst it in a trade secrets theft lawsuit brought by Micron Technology.

New US trade sanctions against Huawei will bring "uncontrollable variables" to the IC market in the second half of 2020, according to Canon Huang, chairman and president for IC packaging...

TSMC's 5nm technology will be offered in more process variants, including a further enhanced 5nm node in addition to 5nm Plus, according to sources at IC inspection services companies...

PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials has said it expects demand to rebound in second-half 2020.

Solar Applied Materials Technology (SAMT) has shipped sputtering target materials to TSMC for front-end thin-film processes, according to industry sources.

Semiconductor equipment maker Foxsemicon Integrated Technology, an affiliate of the Foxconn Group, is expected to post on-year revenue growth in 2020, according to industry sources...

IC fabrication and backend materials distributors are expected to face a slowdown in shipments starting third-quarter 2020 at the earliest due mainly to impacts of the coronavirus...

US vendors remain dominant players in the global front-end semiconductor equipment market segment, which will be a critical factor blocking China's ambition of raising self-sufficiency...

Shortages of personnel with PhDs will be a challenge facing TSMC as well as Taiwan's chipmaking industry by 2030, according to Cliff Hou, company senior VP of technology development...

Taiwan's LCD materials output value will drop 12% annually to NT$39.83 billion (US$1.329 billion) in 2020, government-backed Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center (IEK) has est...

Taiwan-based Chang Wah Electromaterials, a distributor of packaging materials and equipment, has announced plans to invest in COF packaging specialist Chipbond Technology seeking...

Flexible copper-clad laminate (FCCL) supplier Taiflex Scientific is building a new plant in Nantong, China's Jiangsu province, to produce high-frequency, high-speed FCCL materials...

Taiwan-based Eternal Materials currently sees full utilization of its dry-film photoresist production capacity, while that of its paper phenolic copper clad laminate is at between...