TSMC has announced the availability of what it claims is the world's first 7nm automotive design enablement platform (ADEP) to accelerate time-to-design for customers' AI inferencing...

US vendors remain dominant players in the global front-end semiconductor equipment market segment, which will be a critical factor blocking China's ambition of raising self-sufficiency...

Chip demand for 5G smartphones is expected to pick up starting the third quarter of 2020, according to sources at Taiwan-based IC design houses.

Most Taiwan-based fabless ASIC designers and silicon IP providers remain upbeat about their sales and profits for the second quarter of 2020 thanks to clear order visibility from...

Global shipments of fingerprint-on-display (FoD) sensors expanded by nearly a factor of eight in 2019 as these devices increasingly replace conventional silicon-based capacitive chips...

The board of directors of Egis Technology (EgisTec) has approved plans to acquire an additional 16% stake in fellow IC design company FocalTech System.

Taiwan-based IC design houses continue to see an influx of additional orders from major brand vendors, with clear order visibility for diverse niche and peripheral chips extending...

Imagination Technologies announced recently it has struck a deal with BAIC Capital, a Beijing-based investment unit of China's state-owned automaker BAIC Group, to initiate the establishment...

Fabless chipmaker HiSilicon ascended to the top-10 ranks of the global semiconductor industry in the first quarter of 2020, making it the first China-based company achieving such...

Moore's Law may not be dead, but at 55 years old, it's certainly feeling its age, with the pace of semiconductor manufacturing advancement decelerating in recent years. However, a...

Taiwan-based IC design houses have landed a pull-in of orders for 5G base-station and customer-premise equipment (CPE) from China, according to sources at Taiwan's IC distributors.

The lingering US-China trade tensions are set to further encourage Huawei and other China smartphone vendors to reduce their dependence on their US chip suppliers, which will continue...

Taiwan-based IC design houses remain optimistic about demand for server peripheral chips, which will be further strengthened in the second half of 2020, according to industry sourc...

Chip demand from the handset sector is set to be weak in the second quarter of 2020, as sales of smartphones in the end market have not yet recovered, according to sources at Taiwan-based...

Taiwan-based IC design houses have expressed caution about their sales performance in the third quarter, as order visibility for the quarter remains unclear, according to industry...

Despite the persistent coronavirus pandemic, most Taiwan-based IC design houses are expected to see their revenues pick up in March and April, according to industry sources.

Taiwan-based IC design houses engaged in the supply chain for servers are expected to see orders coming from the sector buoy their sales during the second quarter of 2020, but have...

AP Memory will focus more on its IP licensing services and customized offerings to improve its margin performance this year, according to the memory IC design house.

Taiwan-based IC design houses have recently landed short lead-time orders for applications for commercial and educational notebooks and tablets, according to industry sources.

Taiwan-based IC design houses remain cautious about overall customer demand in the second quarter judging from limited order visibility, according to industry sources.

Shipments from ODM and IDH companies grew by 4% annually in 2019 against the declining trend in the overall smartphone market, according to Counterpoint Research. This was a result...

Despite the coronavirus pandemic, market watchers remain upbeat about the market for 5G mobile chips in 2020. Nevertheless, major chip suppliers have been mulling reducing prices...

Taiwan-based chipmakers are gearing up to fulfill robust orders for ASIC services from clients in China and even from the world's first-tier brand vendors that are seeking to enhance...

TSMC is set to kick off volume production of chips built using 5nm process technology in April, and has already seen the process capacity fully booked by clients, according to industry...

Huawei has been strengthening its in-house chip design capability aiming to further reduce its dependence on US technology, according to industry sources.