Sales of high-end smartphones are decelerating, affecting orders for ICs and other parts and components, according to sources from Taiwan-based IC design houses.

Consumer IC design house Generalplus Technology has reported net profit for the first quarter of 2016 increased 65.9% from a year earlier to NT$75.80 million (US$2.35 million). EPS...

Touchscreen controller IC vendor Egalax-empia Technology (EETI) has reported consolidated revenues for the first quarter of 2016 increased 6% sequentially and 25.4% on year to NT$283...

Networking IC design company Realtek Semiconductor has reported net profit for the first quarter of 2016 declined 20% from a year earlier to NT$590 million (US$18.3 million). EPS...

LCD driver IC packaging and testing houses Chipbond Technology and ChipMOS Technologies have both decided to lower their quotes following in the footsteps of their China- and South...

Shares of Taiwan-based memory IC design company AP Memory Technology, a joint venture set up by Powertech Technology and Elite Semiconductor Memory Technology (ESMT), will debut on...

Parade Technologies has announced a collaboration with Samsung Display to deliver AMOLED panels for the tablet and notebook markets. Parade, which supplies eDP timing controllers...

Taiwan-based IC design houses Novatek Microelectronics and Realtek Semiconductor plan to distribute cash dividends per share of NT$9 (US$0.28) and NT$4, respectively, for 2015.

Toshiba has adopted the Cadence Innovus implementation system for its memory controller's production design project, according to the EDA company. The tool enabled Toshiba...

Competition in the market for semiconductor advanced process technologies is expected to heat up, with Samsung Electronics and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) striving...

Microcontroller (MCU) IC design house Holtek Semiconductor expects to post revenue growth of 15-20% sequentially in the second quarter of 2016, thanks to the approaching peak seaso...

Sony is the largest CMOS image sensor vendor worldwide and its products mainly go to the consumer sector. Weakening demand for smartphone has impacted the business's recent performances,...

China-based hardware makers have rushed into the development and manufacture of robot products, offering an opportunity for Taiwan-based chipset vendors to ramp up their shipments...

Samsung Display was largest maker of smartphone panels, shipping more than 80 million panels, in the first quarter of 2016, according to China-based Sigmaintell Consulting.

While copper wire is considered a cheaper alternative to gold wire for ball wire bonding used in semiconductor packaging, a process based on aluminum wire has been developed by Taiwan's...