At Intel Architecture Day 2018, top executives, architects and fellows revealed next-generation technologies and discussed progress on a strategy to power an expanding universe of...

Globalfoundries announced in August 2018 its decision to put 7nm FinFET R&D on hold indefinitely in a move to intensify the company's focus on delivering differentiated 14/12nm...

The production value of the global foundry industry is expected to grow by a CAGR of 6.2% to reach US$81.94 billion in 2023, the final year of a five-year forecast period, driven...

Samsung Electronics has started wafer production of its 7nm LPP with extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology, according to the company.

Intel CFO and interim CEO Bob Swan has announced that the chip giant will invest an additional US$1 billion in 2018 in expanding its 14nm manufacturing sites to address tight suppl...

Intel is encountering tight 14nm process production capacity in-house, and is looking to outsource part of its 14nm chipset production to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company...

A Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) employee has been charged with stealing secrets from the pure-play foundry.

Apple is scheduled to roll out its entry-level MacBook series featuring Intel's 14nm Kaby Lake processor in September's product launch conference. The model is expected to be priced...

Intel will not introduce its 10nm chips until the fourth quarter of 2019, which has raised speculation that the company may scale down its foundry business.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) saw its revenues fall nearly 20% sequentially in the second quarter of 2018. The world's largest pure-play foundry expects to post...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is likely to move its 7nm process technology to mass production ahead of schedule to meet growing demand from its fabless clients...

Applied Materials has announced a breakthrough in materials engineering that accelerates chip performance in the big data and AI era.

The global smartphone applications processor (AP) market declined 5% on year to US$20.2 billion in 2017, while the tablet AP market grew 3% to US$2 billion, according to Strategy...

Qualcomm's recently-introduced Snapdragon 710 mobile chip, manufactured using Samsung's 10nm LPP process technology, will be rivaling MediaTek's Helio P60 series chip built using...

Nanya Technology expects to start shipping 8Gb DDR4 memory for server applications in small volume in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to company president Lee Pei-ing.

Intel's new-generation H310 desktop processors fabricated on 14nm process reportedly have run out of supply in less than one month after the chipset was launched in early April 2018,...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) 7nm FinFET process has obtained orders for the production of AI-capable SoCs from a number of China-based chip firms, such as Huawei's...

IC testing solution provider Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) has reported consolidated revenues of NT$309 million (US$10.4 million) for April 2018, up 10.5% sequentially and 11.6%...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has cut its revenue growth forecast for 2018 to 10% from the previously-estimated 10-15%, citing weaker-than-expected smartphone...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reported net profits of NT$89.79 billion (US$3.06 billion) for the first quarter of 2018, down 9.6% sequentially but up 2.5%...

Top semiconductor players Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Samsung Electronics and Intel are engaged in increasingly fierce competition not only in developing advanced...

IC testing solution provider Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) has reported consolidated revenues of NT$279 million (US$9.55 million) for March 2018, up 31.2% sequentially and 3.4%...

China-based artificial intelligence (AI) chip developers including Hisilicon Semiconductor, Cambricon, DeePhi Tech, Horizon Robotics and Bitmain have been aggressively planning new...

The new Samsung Galaxy S9+ equipped with 64GB of NAND flash memory (model number SM-G965U1) carries a bill of materials (BOM) cost of US$375.80, much higher than for previous versions...

Samsung Electronics has announced the availability of its latest application processor (AP), the Exynos 7 Series 9610, built using the company's 10nm FinFET process.