Spending on 300mm fab equipment will slowly recover in 2020 after the 2019 downturn and take off in 2021 to log a new record high topping US$60 billion, only to lag again in 2022...

Worldwide sales of semiconductors posted a year-over-year decline for the seventh consecutive month in July 2019.

Taiwan-based RF component specialists including RichWave Technology, Rafael Microelectronics and AMIC Communication (AMICCOM), have seen a ramp-up in orders from China in 2019, according...

Orders for custom-designed processors have been rising from China in 2019, according to industry sources in Taiwan.

Impacted by softening markets and rising uncertainty in global trade and economy, semiconductor spending of the world's top OEMs will face the steepest decline in a decade. According...

China's Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) has kicked off volume production of 64-layer 256Gb TLC 3D NAND chips, according to indsutry sources.

Weltrend Semiconductor's USB power delivery (PD) controller chips reportedly have entered the supply chain of major China-based handset vendors.

Eight-inch IC foundries have seen their fabless customers engaged in the fingerprint sensor, touchscreen IC, analog chip and LCD driver IC sectors step up their pace of orders recently,...

China's state-owned Tsinghua Unigroup has clinched a deal with the Chongqing municipal government to build its DRAM operations headquarters, R&D and manufacturing facilities in...

Global sales of 5G smartphones will reach 160 million in 2020 if 5G takes off as expected in China, according to Strategy Analytics. Huawei is best positioned to capture the majority...

China semiconductor industry has been aggressively revving up its "de-Americanization" drive since the start of 2019 seeking to sharply wean itself off US suppliers of crucial IC...

China-based panel makers including BOE Technology and China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT) and Chongqing HKC have reportedly continued to cut back their production in response...

Apple is moving to have its AirPods contract makers shift production from China to Vietnam and Google is also mulling asking its smart speaker manufacturing partners to move production...

Chip and component demand for 5G related applications, including network equipment, and antennas for handsets and IoT devices, is set to grow robustly starting 2020. In the PCB industry...

With CCL (copper clad laminate) deemed as the most crucial material for high-end PCBs for 5G applications, major CCL makers in Taiwan and China are actively proceeding with capacity...