China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT) has signed a deal which calls for an investment of up to CNY42.68 billion (US$6.682 billion) to build a new 11G flat panel plant - the...

Silicon wafer prices are estimated to further rise 20% on average in 2018 after posting the same size of hike in 2017 on robust market demand, and the quotes are expected to trend...

The Bosch Group is looking to continue its growth in China, where the Germany-based supplier of technology and services achieved sales of EUR14.9 billion (US$17.44) in 2017 - a double-digit...

Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) and Huali Microelectronics, and memory foundry specialist Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) are all gearing up for transition to...

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,...

It is imperative that legal and ethical parameters be established as soon as possible to cope with the fast development of AI that has given rise to issues concerning prejudice, transparency...

IC Insights has revised upward its semiconductor industry capex growth forecast for 2018 to 14% from 8%. The industry capital spending is also forecast to exceed US$100 billion for...

Microsoft will cooperate with China Mobile in developing speech recognition applications, the software giant has announced.

Terminal connector makers Chialin Precision Industrial and CY Precision have signed a pact to co-develop automotive components and devices for the China market.

Micron Technology and Intel have announced joint production and shipments of what they claim to be the industry's first 4bits/cell 3D NAND technology. Leveraging a proven 64-layer...

Microsoft will leverage its resources and partnerships to provide innovative solutions and tools to help China-based artificial intelligence (AI) developers seize business opportunities,...

According to surveys Digitimes Research conducted in China in March 2018, shipments of smartphone application processors (AP) in China will show a rebound in the second quarter of...

Worldwide top-5 notebook brands saw their combined shipments drop around 30% sequentially in April primarily due to seasonal factors, but compared to the same month in 2017, the volumes...

LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar is poised to ship VCSEL (vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser) chips used to China-based smartphone vendors through EMS provider Lite-On...