While Huawei has continued to ramp up self-sufficiency for mobile chips via its chip arm Hisilicon Technologies, other Chinese handset players including Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo have...

MediaTek is expected to embrace an ambitious strategy to grow its presence in the 5G smartphone SoC sector. It will focus its efforts on 5G chip solutions for the upper midrange smartphone...

As much as 17.9 million wafers (200mm-equivalents) per year of new IC capacity could be added in 2020, followed by another 20.8 million wafers of new IC capacity in 2021, which would...

Chinese IT firms have been stepping up efforts developing its own CPUs in line with the country's goal of replacing all foreign firms-made computers in use in government and military...

Chinese chipmakers are revving up development of HPC (high performance computing) chips for AI and deep learning applications, which are expected to become available for volume production...

AOI (automatic optical inspection) equipment maker Favite will focus 2020 operation on China-based TFT-LCD and OLED panel makers, for many of whom plan to set up new plants next year,...

Taiwan-based niche-type CCL maker Ventec International expects its gross margin to reach over 25% for whole-year 2019 thanks to volume production of its new high-end materials and...

Apex International remains optimistic about its sales performance next year, despite the impact of US-China trade disputes on the company's revenues since September, according to...

Monthly billings of North American semiconductor equipment manufacturers, which registered their first on-year increase since October 2018 and climbed to a 14-month high in October...

Synaptics has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to divest its mobile LCD TDDI business to Hua Capital through a special purpose entity backed by Hua-Capital Cayman for...

Taiwanese PCB makers' production in 2019 is expected to grow slightly from a year earlier to NT$656.2 billion (US$21.74 billion), with strong shipments of rigid-flex boards, high-end...

Memory design house Etron Technology has teamed up with US-based FGPA chipmaker Lattice Semiconductor on developing new miniaturized AI+DRAM platform for applications to terminal...

Taiwan-based compound semiconductor suppliers are set to further expand their production capacities as they are poised to embrace robust demand for radio-frequency (RF) and power...

Etron Technology and its affiliate eYs 3D Microelectronics are likely to tap into Japan's AR glass industry supply chain in 2020 with diverse smart 3D sensing solutions, according...

Efforts by the blockchain industry will accelerate the development of the existing foundries, according to Thomas Hu, CEO of blockchain technology developer Kyber Capital.