"2021 is the year that everyone remembered that chip mattered," said Wired Magazine. So far 2022 seems likely to be another fruitful year for the semiconductor industry.

Suppliers of power management ICs, networking chips, and industrial and automotive MCUs are still capable of raising their prices in the first quarter of 2022, as 8-inch fab capacity...

The latest COVID-induced lockdown in the Chinese city of Xi'an has threatened to disrupt manufacturing at some tech giants' facilities there, including Samsung's...

LED probing, testing and sorting equipment maker FitTech is looking to large potential demand for equipment used in probing/testing compound semiconductors and packaging ICs, and...

China's Loongson Technology, a CPU designer funded by the Institute of Computing Technologies of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has secured recently approval to launch an...

Clients have been keen on securing supply of servers amid components shortages, with ODMs set to expand their production capacity to meet long-term...

China-based Sinyang Semiconductor Materials has signed a three-year cooperation pact with Germany's chemical materials vendor Heraeus to jointly develop photoresist for use in producing...

ICs for consumer products are expected to see worse shortages than other applications in 2022 as many IC design houses have prioritized supply capacity for non-consumer chip offerings...

Samsung Electro-Mechanics (Semco) reportedly will set up a new ABF substrate plant in Vietnam mainly to provide dedicated capacity for Intel, with construction slated to kick off...

There are more ways than one to improve on chip performance and power, and with chip scaling generating more costs, chipmakers are exploring more methods in their technology advancements,...

SEMICON Taiwan 2021 has kicked off in Taipei running from December 28-30, with this year's theme focusing on heterogeneous integration, compound semiconductors and other chipmaking...

The semiconductor market should remain robust in 2022, but chipmakers still face some factors, such as trade tensions,...

While demand for entry-level LED display driver ICs (DDI) will remain weak in first-quarter 2022, supply of high-end LED DDI will still be 10-20% short of demand, according to Yang...

Floods that hit multiple regions in Malaysia recently are expected to significantly undermine global chip supply on top of the existing shortages.

Foundries and IC designers are set to face increasingly volatile market conditions in 2022, as strong demand seen in 2020-2021 is expected to start softening at a slow pace, US-China...