Compal Electronics has set its 2018 capex at NT$6 billion (US$205.7 million), up over 70% from the NT$3.4 billion spent in 2017 with half of the amount planned to be used in automation...

Oppo has announced its new flagship devices, the R15 and the R15 Dream Mirror Edition in China with features echoing the company's commitment to deepen its deployment in AI and AR...

Chip-on-film (COF) packaging demand will start to grow substantially in the second half of 2018, driven by the arrival of new smartphones featuring an edge-to-edge display, according...

After soaring 22.3% on year to hit a 7-year annual high of US$420 billion in 2017, the global semiconductor revenues will enter a new round of growth mainly driven by AI and 5G technologies...

Bolstered by China's large population, solid mobile network infrastructures, and aggressive deployments in IoT and AI applications, the localization of its semiconductor industry...

Baicheng City in northeastern China has selected project undertakers for five model PV power station projects, with the winning bidders' prices ranging from CNY0.41 (US$0.065)/kWh...

More and More Taiwan-based FPD and semiconductor equipment suppliers are flocking into China to tap the fast growing FPD-manufacturing equipment market there, according to sources...

Taiwan-based backend houses are expected to enjoy robust demand for NOR flash memory, which will be driven by a ramp-up of orders for custom ASICs in 2018, according to industry so...

Fab equipment spending will increase at 5% in 2019 for a fourth consecutive year of growth, according to SEMI. China is expected to be the main driver of fab equipment spending growth...

Robust orders from China's semiconductor and LCD panel industries will be buoying revenues at Taiwan-based equipment suppliers Acter and Nova Technology in 2018.

IPC player Adlink Technology registered consolidated revenues of NT$10.67 billion (US$362.35 million) for 2017, rising 11.5% on year, but its gross margin was only 37%, leading net...

Global demand for broadening network bandwidths is still maintaining substantial growth momentum, particularly bolstered by active deployments of optical fiber transmission networks...

Apple is preparing to release a new entry-level MacBook at the end of the second quarter with a price tag expected to be about the same level as that of the existing MacBook Air or...

Taiwan-based Ardentec, which specializes in testing services for memory, logic and mixed-signal ICs, expects its new plant in Nanjing to enter volume production in the second quarter...

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has set stricter requirements for constructing new PV manufacturing capacities including upgrading existing production lines,...