3D sensing is expected to replace fingerprint sensing as mainstream for smartphones in 2018 with more smartphone vendors, including Huawei, Xiaomi Technology and Oppo, expected to...

WitsView has reported that global shipments of branded LCD TV sets will total 210 million units in 2017, down 4.1% on year, but 2018 shipments will grow by 3.9% to 218 million.

Taiwan-based IC backend service firms Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) and King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) are expected to see their sales momentum continue into 2018 thanks to...

North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$2.05 billion in billings worldwide in November 2017 (three-month average basis), according to SEMI.

Taiwan-based semiconductor packaging material and equipment distributor Niching Industrial is optimistic about its 2018 performance due to rising demand for memory IC substrates, substrates...

MediaTek has revealed that it has received orders for its newly released health monitoring solution, Sensio MT6381, from China-based first-tier smartphone vendors and other wearable...

MediaTek has unveiled its first 6-in-1 smartphone biosensor module, MediaTek Sensio MT6381, a powerful advanced health monitoring solution which makes it easy to track heart rates,...

NXP Semiconductors has announced a strategic partnership with Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing and business unit of Alibaba Group. The two companies are working together to enable...

STMicroelectronics has announced its acquisition of software-development tools specialist Atollic. Atollic is the supplier of TrueStudio, an integrated development environment (IDE)...

The growing popularity of all-screen smartphones is playing a role in easing global oversupply of handset displays, as the production of 18:9 panels will consume 12.5-20% more production...

Komatsu, one of the world's largest manufacturers of construction and mining equipment, has selected Nvidia as its partner to bring AI (artificial intelligence) to jobsites, making...

Leading semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest Corporation (TSE: 6857) and SJ Semiconductor Corp. (SJSemi), a leading middle-end-of-line (MEOL) semiconductor test-service...

Qualcomm has decided to continue adopting Samsung's 10nm process for fabricating its newly released Snapdragon 845 chipset for smartphones, instead of advancing to 7nm process node...

Touchscreen and LCD driver solution provider FocalTech Systems is expected to ship a total of 60 million TDDI (touch with display driver integration) chips in 2017, according to a...

Global shipment momentum of large-sized LCD panels is expected to slow down in the fourth quarter of 2017 after experiencing a 5.7% sequential growth to 220 million units in the third...