Despite the COVID-19 shutdown of the Chinese economy earlier this year, China's share of the pure-play foundry market is forecast to be 22% in 2020, 17pp higher than it registered...

United Semiconductor (Xiamen), a 12-inch foundry subsidiary of Taiwan's United Microelectronics (UMC), has run at near full capacity since the second quarter of 2020 thanks to a pick-up...

Suzhou HYC Technology, which manufactures and sells automatic test equipment for semiconductor and other high-tech industries, has announced plans to take over fellow China-based...

China-based flat panel makers Tianma Microelectronics and Visonox have moved one step further to expanding their capacities for flexible AMOLED panels, with the former having the...

China's homegrown semiconductor equipment makers are gearing up to develop diverse frontend and backend IC process equipment in line with the government efforts to boost self-sufficiency...

Both Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics (UMC) saw losses from their 12-inch wafer fabs in China during the first half of 2019, while fellow...

Founded in 2014 as an IC design startup in China's southeast port city of Xiamen, InMicro Technology has made its name as a dedicated developer and designer of a series of digital-analog...

Since its inception in 2002 as the first Taiwanese-invested semiconductor firm in Xiamen, YuanSun Technologies has been quietly playing a contributing role in the development of the...

Xiamen IC Design Public Service Platform has played a crucial role in helping China IC designers operating in the country's southeastern port city upgrade their design and innovation...

Founded in 2010 as China's first high-tech enterprise dedicated to developing civil millimeter wave radar MMIC (monolithic microwave integrated circuit), IMsemi Technology, headquartered...

Founded in November 2016 to develop and produce compound semiconductor epitaxial wafers, China's Epihouse, headquartered in the country's southeast port city of Xiamen, has kicked...

The largest China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Sanan Optoelectronics will maintain its leadership by expanding production capacity to hike its global market share and...

As a joint venture between US photomask maker Photronics and Japan's Dai Nippon Printing (DNP), Photronics DNP Mask broke ground in mid-2018 for building a photomask plant in Xiamen,...

As a heavyweight member in the China semiconductor industry, Tsinghua Unigroup has set ambitious goals of scoring US$100 billion in annual revenues, taking the largest share of the...

Meitu, a company best known for its selfie app, and Xiaomi announced recently a strategic partnership to jointly launch Meitu-branded phones and other smart devices in a move that...

The IC industry has become strategically important and many countries around the world are putting full efforts toward the sector in recent years. Fueled by the "Big Fund" starting...

Building an IC industry chain is a key focus of Xiamen in line with China's 13th Five-year Plan. Xiamen, lying on the southeast coast of the country, has made impressive progress...

The IC industry has been undergoing revolutionary changes, driving compound semiconductor market development with third-generation semiconductor material represented by wide-gap compound...

As China's largest chipmaker, Unigroup Spreadtrum & RDA expects to roll out its 12nm chip solutions in 2019 and 7nm chipsets in 2020 to support AI, autonomous driving, cloud and...

As a veteran flexible PCB maker, Hong Kong-based Compass Technology has made moves that will relocate its headquarters to Xiamen, a booming IT hub in the southeast coast of China.

As one of China's three leading IC backend service firms, Tongfu Microelectronics (TFME) has managed to provide one-stop packaging and testing solutions by expanding its operation...

China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Sanan Optoelectronics has extended R&D and production to III-V compound semiconductors, mainly GaAs, GaN and InP epitaxial wafers...

EpiWorld International has completed productio non lines for 3-, 4- and 6-inch SiC (silicon carbide) epitaxial wafers for making 600V, 1,200V and 1,700V power devices, becoming a...

As many China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip makers have expanded or are expanding production capacities, several major makers listed on stock markets in China are expected to...

Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) expects its fab operation in Xiamen, China to remain unprofitable in 2018 due to insufficient economies of scale.