Taiwan's polarizer makers BenQ Materials and Cheng Mei Material Technology (CMMT) both are striving to expand their client bases to sustain shipment momentum, according to company...

Electronic chemical material distributor Wah Lee Industrial has disclosed it has signed with Tien Li Offshore Wind Technology for suppling materials for the latter to make blades...

Polarizer Cheng Mei Materials Technology (CMMT) has seen its capacity utilization rate improve substantially and orders surpass its available capacity by about 10%, according to company...

Episil Holdings has disclosed that subsidiary Episil-Precision is among GlobalWafers' customers looking to expand its gallium nitride (GaN) and silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxial wafer...

China's Huawei reportedly is looking to build its own 45nm chip fabrication lines without US technology this year, which industry sources believe is "mission impossible."

Taiwan-based Intelligent Epitaxy Technology (IntelliEPI) has teamed up with IVWorks of South Korea to jointly develop and market GaN epi wafers based on molecular beam epitaxy (MBE)...

Applied Materials is looking to work more closely with its parts and component suppliers for the after-sales maintenance and upgrades of its fab tools, according to industry source...

With TSMC scaling up its 7nm and 5nm chip output, related silicon wafer materials and equipment suppliers have seen significant orders from the pure-play foundry and are ramping up...

Chroma Ate, which provides integrated and customized solutions for test and measurement instruments, has reported net profits increased 24% sequentially to NT$580 million (US$19.8...

The global semiconductor packaging materials market will expand from US$17.6 billion in revenue logged in 2019 to US$20.8 billion in 2024, a 3.4% compound annual growth rate (CAGR),...

KLA has announced the eSL10 e-beam patterned-wafer defect inspection system, which is designed to accelerate time-to-market for high-performance logic and memory chips, including...

IC materials analysis specialist Integrated Service Technology (iST) saw its profits for the first half 2020 exceed those for all of 2019, driven by strong demand for advanced fabrication...

Taiwan-based All Ring Tech and Laser Tek have both seen clear order visibility so far in third-quarter 2020 for PCB and passive component manufacturing equipment.

TSMC has seen capacity utilization rates for 16nm and more mature processs pick up recently, and has demanded sufficient supplies from related materials providers through October,...

IC materials distributors Topco Scientific and Wah Lee Industrial saw their revenues for second-quarter and first-half 2020 register impressive increases thanks mainly to clients...

Passive components maker Yageo saw its second-quarter revenues climb 34.4% sequentially to NT$13.47 billion (US$457.7 million), thanks mainly to improvement in factory utilization...

Soitec has announced a business agreement with Qualcomm Technologies on the supply of piezoelectric-on-insulator (POI) engineered substrates for 4G and 5G RF filters. Soitec's piezoelectric-on-insulator...

Taiwan-based semiconductor equipment suppliers engaged in TSMC's supply chain are set to be among the beneficiaries of the foundry house's advanced process capacity expansion with...

Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) is urging international material and equipment makers to invest in Taiwan where demand for semiconductor equipment, especially from the...

PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials will merge with Exojet Technology, a maker of conductive paste for passive components, PCBs and touch panels, with the former to be...

Taiwan-based Eternal Materials continues to utilize as high as 90% of its dry-film photoresist production capacity, thanks to brisk PCB demand for base stations, servers, notebooks...

Group Up Industrial (GP) has clear order visibility through the third quarter of 2020, thanks to growing demand from its PCB and IC substrate clients looking to ramp up their offerings...

CCL maker Elite Material (EMC) has gained validation from server brands and datacenter clients with their orders gradually picking up recently, according to the company.

GlobalWafers has held a groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of subsidiary Taisil Electronic Materials, and will use offshore capital to fund the expansion, which is set to complete...

BenQ Materials expects its lithium-ion battery separator film business to make headway in 2021 as such products are likely to enter the supply chain of a top Japanese automaker next...