Taiwan IC designers have seen orders swelling from China for imaging processing chips for surveillance, video conferencing and face ID applications as major Chinese chip maker HiSilicon...

Diode maker Taiwan Semiconductor Company (TSC) will team up with foundry house UMC to develop and manufacture SGT (split-gate) MOSFET chips for automotive and industrial applications,...

Taiwan's driver IC backend firms have seen small-volume rush orders as a result of Samsung Electronics' gradual exit from the LCD panel market, according to industry sources said.

Huawei will see its tablet shipments in 2021 undermined by the US trade sanctions as the Chinese brand is unable to obtain processors from Qualcomm or MediaTek, or outsource in-house...

Zhaoxin Semiconductor, formed in 2013 as a joint venture between Taiwan's VIA Technologies and China's Shanghai government, will own part of VIA's x86 processor IP assets.

Microsoft has announced plans to build a data center in Taiwan and grow a local team dedicated to the development of Azure cloud hardware and infrastructure, which is expected to...

Taiwan's panel makers will be able to maintain their shipment momentum for IT panels in the fourth quarter of 2020 although their combined ratio to global shipments is likely to edge...

The global supply of NOR flash memory will fall short of demand in 2021 if trade tensions between the US and China persist, according to Macronix International chairman Miin Wu.

Taiwan-based MLCC specialists including Yageo and Walsin Technology have seen increasing orders for 5G smartphone applications, and are optimistic about their growth prospects for...

Keeping abreast with rapid advances in medical care technologies around the world, the Taiwan government has been actively fostering domestic university research projects. As part...

GlobalPlatform, together with Winbond Electronics Corporation, Arm and Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), hosted the first technology forum in Taiwan. With a mix of...

A sound ecosystem for high-end IC substrates has to be built in Taiwan as such substrates will still have a big role to play in backend services despite the growing demand for substrate-free...

Electrical machinery maker Fortune Electric is cooperating with hotels, department stores and large retailers to set up power charging stations for electric vehicles (EVs) in Taiwan,...

A growing number of Taiwan-based IT companies are showing great interest in catering to the network equipment market, aiming to roll out related solutions for the 5G Open RAN sector,...

Taiwan-based IC design houses are eyeing the growing demand for car-use ASICs, with some having won orders from automakers or their supply chain partners, according to industry sou...

Taiwan recorded manufacturing production index (2016 as base year) of 123.91 for September 2020, reaching the highest-ever monthly level and increasing 3.20% sequentially and 11.32%...

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company (MGC) and Taiwan-based Iteq have announced plans to jointly establish a joint venture, of which the former will hold a 51% share and the latter 49%.

The supply of display driver ICs has fallen short of demand, while capacities at 8-inch foundries stay tight. Backend houses are mulling raising their quotes to reflect the tight...

Taiwan's telecom and channel operators are to face short supply of the iPhone 12 lineup when they begin to deliver the devices to pre-registered consumers on October 24, with market...

IC packaging and testing service provider Greatek Electronics has plans to expand capacity to meet strong demand from the smaertphone sector.

United Microelectronics Corp (UMC) has said that it has submitted a proposal for settling soon a business espionage lawsuit brought by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) against the...

Sentelic, which specializes in fan motor controller ICs for servers, will be listed on the Taiwan over-the-counter (OTC) stock market in mid- or late-November.

Tesla's Model 3 electric cars (EV) produced at its Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai, China will soon arrive for sale in Europe, sparking speculation that a price war may be looming, according...

Taiwan-based IC design houses continue to see their downstream clients including distributors stockpile aggressively, and plan to raise their quotes to constrain demand, according...

One of the world's main IC industry clusters is being formed at the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP), where TSMC operates its major manufacturing site for 5nm process technology...