Power supply maker and energy management solution provider Delta Electronics is optimistic about its business growth arising from increasing demand for 5G infrastructure, data centers, electric vehicles (EVs), automotive electronics and green energy, according to company chairman Yancey Hai.

Demand for the iPhone 12 Pro has been so strong delivery lead time from manufacturers has had to be extended. And Apple is set to increase orders for VCSEL chips supporting the iPhone 12 Pro's LiDAR scanner for immersive augmented reality...

Digital camera ODM and imaging solution provider Altek has developed 3D depth-sensing modules based on stereopsis technology and expects adoption for such modules to begin to increase in fourth-quarter 2020, according to the company.

Motherboard and graphics card manufacturers may see their revenue growth in the fourth quarter of 2020 constrained by the tight supply of Nvidia's GeForce RTX 30 series, according to industry sources.

Elan Microelectronics, along with strong demand for notebooks supporting remote working and learning in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, has seen booming shipments for ICs used in touch screen controllers and touch pad modules, according to the company.

Global server shipments, after reaching the peak of 2020 in the second quarter, are estimated to have slipped 6% sequentially in the third quarter and to drop another 12% in the fourth quarter, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic disrupting the buying pattern, according to Digitimes Research.

Taiwan-based Anli International, specializing in metal parts and heat dissipation components for notebooks, is looking to diversify its target markets to include games consoles and automotive components, according to company chairman Cheng-Kun Hsu.

AMD and Xilinx have announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for the former to acquire the latter in an all-stock transaction valued at US$35 billion.

The mature notebook market has seen robust demand thanks to stay-at-home needs in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Third-quarter 2020 notebook shipments hit a record high, driven by better-than-expected education procurement orders...

Zhaoxin Semiconductor, formed in 2013 as a joint venture between Taiwan's VIA Technologies and China's Shanghai government, will own part of VIA's x86 processor IP assets.

TSMC is fast advancing its IC packaging technology in line with its efforts to extend the relevance of Moore's Law. The foundry's 6th-generation CoWoS technology may enter volume production in 2023. Tight foundry supply has been driving...

ASMedia is expected to enjoy strong sales in the fourth quarter thanks to robust orders for chipsets used with AMD's upcoming Zen 3-based Ryzen 5000 processors to be released in early November, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.

Intel has agreed to sell its NAND flash and storage business to SK Hynix, but the chipmaker is also facing increasingly intense competition from AMD, Nvidia and even Apple in its core business of processors for PCs, servers, and AI devices.

Taiwan recorded manufacturing production index (2016 as base year) of 123.91 for September 2020, reaching the highest-ever monthly level and increasing 3.20% sequentially and 11.32% on year, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA).

Intel has reported third-quarter 2020 financial results, generating US$8.2 billion in cash from operations and paying dividends of US$1.4 billion.

The launch of the iPhone 12 lineup without the inclusion of wired earphones will help boost sales of Apple's AirPods devices as well as non-AirPods TWS products, according to industry sources.

ASRock expects shipments of its motherboards, graphics cards and server products to continue rising in 2021, and is optimistic about its profit margin next year.

Replacement demand from the consumer sector, in addition to Chromebooks, will be driving the overall notebook market growth in 2021, according to Acer chairman and CEO Jason Chen.

Taiwan's Compal Electronics and US networking specialist Cisco Systems have newly formed a strategic alliance to explore the 5G AIoT market and serve enterprise clients with diverse integrated network solutions.

Sentelic, which specializes in fan motor controller ICs for servers, will be listed on the Taiwan over-the-counter (OTC) stock market in mid- or late-November.

Asia Optical is gearing up its R&D efforts developing new products such as optical modules to tap business opportunities in the 5G, datacenter, cloud and smart medical care sectors, according to company optical business chief Chen Cheng-yu.

Demand for OLED is picking up, with Apple's freshly released iPhone 12 family all featuring OLED screens. Now China-based maker CSOT has plans to build a new 8.5g fab in 2021 for making inkjet-printed OLED panels. SK...

Demand for vapor chambers (VC) from smartphone vendors has been disappointing so far in 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic deterring the launch of high-end models by non-Apple handset vendors, according to industry sources.

Taiwan's cooling solutions providers are relocating more of their available capacities for production of vaper chambers (VCs) away from handset to notebook applications due to increasing demand for notebooks supporting stay-at-home economy, according to industry sources.

Abigail Hing Wen is the data-centric tech evangelist and AI podcast host for Intel. Beside her work at Intel, she has multiple identities: a lawyer in venture capital, a leader in emerging AI tech, a New York Times bestseller novelist, a wife and a mother of two. One of her novels, "Loveboat, Taipei,"...