Networking IC design specialist Realtek Semiconductor has reported consolidated revenues of NT$4.05 billion (US$131 million) for November 2018, up 2.2% on month and 7.6% on year.

Taiwan-based passive component companies saw their November revenues decrease on month as a result of disappointing demand from the handset and PC segments.

As part of its taxation reforms, China will transfer the responsibility of collecting social insurance charges to tax bureaus to build a unified tax collection system, starting January...

Taiwan-based memory module makers have started landing orders transferred from their fellow China-based firms since September, according to industry sources.

LED driver IC supplier Macroblock is cautious about its business prospects for the fourth quarter of 2018 and first-quarter 2019 judging from a continued slowdown in customer order...

South Korea's dominance in the manufacture of DRAM memory seems solid, given that Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix together control three quarters of the global DRAM market, but China,...

Trade tensions between the US and China may not seem to have a direct impact on the semiconductor industry, but subsequent developments of the row - if the two giants fail to make...

The trade war between the world's two economic giants has lasted over a year since the US Trade Representative Office initiated in August 2017 a Section 301 investigation into imports...

Though the US and China have agreed a 90-day suspension on new tariffs, Taiwan-based ODMs are still being pushed by their brand clients to establish production capacity outside of...

Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached US$41.8 billion for the month of October 2018, up 12.7% compared to year-ago levels and 1% sequentially, according to the Semiconductor Industry...

US-based SunPower will sue China-based PV module makers for alleged infringement of its patents concerning shingled array PV modules, according to China-based solar mono-Si wafer...

China-based smartphone vendors Huawei and Xiaomi expect their smartphone sales to continue to grow robustly in 2019, while Oppo and Vivo are more conservative about their prospects...

Corning and SCH Electronics (Shanghai) have jointly announced they have signed a sales agency agreement focused on semiconductor glass carriers in China.

ASE Technology Holding, the parent company of IC packagers Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL), plans to set up an IC testing service...

LED packaging service provider Advanced Optoelectronics Technology (AOT), a subsidiary of the Foxconn Group, expects its sales for the fourth quarter of 2018 to be lower than those...