Unmanned stores are experiencing a burgeoning development worldwide, with globally leading e-commerce players or retail chains including Amazon, Walmart, Alibba, and JD.com all jumping...

Taiwan-based backend houses are expected to significantly benefit from increasingly brisk market demand for MEMS sensors for use in smartphones and other consumer electronics devices,...

Taiwan recorded manufacturing production index (2016 as base year) of 103.52 for April 2018, decreasing 11.15% sequentially but increasing 9.07% on year, according to the Ministry...

Taiwan's large-size LCD panel shipments decreased 4.4% sequentially, but went up 4.6% on year in the first quarter of 2018.

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...

Sanan Optoelectronics and HC SemiTek - the two largest China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip makers - and Epistar, their biggest counterpart in Taiwan, have seen inventories piling...

Pure-play foundries in China and Taiwan intend to encourage their fabless firms to transition to 12-inch wafer manufacturing as their 8-inch fab capacity has been extremely tight,...

Sales of smartphones in the Taiwan market have continued to drop for the fifth consecutive month to 490,000 units in April 2018, according to data compiled by local retail channels...

Taiwan received export orders totaling US$39.11 billion in April 2018, decreasing 7.7% sequentially but increasing 9.8% on year, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA...

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

Viewing that IGBT components and modules are as crucial to hybrid and pure electric vehicles as CPUs to computers, Taiwan firms engaged in the power discrete devices segment are following...

Taiwan's shipments of LCD monitors dropped 6.3% sequentially to below 20 million units in the first quarter of 2018 although the quarterly figures were higher than the levels seen...

Thanks to volume shipments of 18:9 smartphone panels from Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT), Taiwan's small- to medium-size panel shipments saw only a mild drop of 5% on quarter to come...

Taiwan Star Telecom has seen its operations reach a milestone in April during which its EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) has become positive,...

Murata Manufacturing, Pegatron and Inventec have dismissed recent reports from Taiwan about deals they had allegedly struck over stable MLCC supply amid serious shortages of the passive...

The supply of MOSFET chips has become sufficient in the second quarter as international IDMs have moved to scale up their output for entry-level and mid-range devices, according to...

Taiwan makers' notebook shipments in the first quarter of 2018 performed weaker than originally expected, slipping 17.1% sequentially and 7.4% on year to reach only 27.07 million...

Five tech startups from Taiwan are showcasing their latest developments in IoT applications at the Internet of Things World 2018 held May 14-17 in Silicon Valley, seeking to enter...

The Taiwan government has proposed a New Economy Immigration Act, drafted with an aim to attract foreign professionals and mid-level technicians to support the country's industrial...

The ongoing shortage of MLCCs is affecting negatively shipments of Taiwan-based IC design houses, with some of the companies likely to revise downward their shipment goals for the...

Taiwan EMS firms, especially smaller ones, are seeing their profitability increasingly eroded as their downstream customers are reluctant to absorb increases in production cost driven...

Backend house ChipMOS Technologies has signed a five-year syndicated loan for NT$12 billion (US$401.4 million) with 11 local banks in Taiwan, according to a company filing with the...

The government in Taiwan will host, for the first time, the Singularity University (SU) Asia Pacific Global Impact Challenge (GIC) 2018, in an effort to boost the country's international...

Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments climbed to a record-high 3.084 billion square inches in the first quarter of 2018, according to SEMI. The shipments represented increases of...

Taiwan-based blockchain startups OwlTing and Star Bit Innovation are proceeding at full throttles with deployments in new tech sectors to capture the growing application business...