Taiwan CCL makers have a chance to land part of orders from their Japan counterpart Panasonic whose plant in northern Japan was seriously hit by floods caused by Typhoon Hagibis in...

Copper-clad laminate (CCL) specialist Iteq has reported net profits surged 79.3% from a year earlier and 23.9% sequentially to a record high of NT$715 million (US$23.5 million) in...

Copper clad laminate (CCL) maker Taiwan Union Technology (TUC) has reportedly encountered some quality issues that may lead to loss of some major orders from Google, according to...

Ten new 6G OLED fabs are set to come online in China by 2021, despite some delays resulting from the US-China trade tensions and weak demand, according to a Taiwan-based upstream...

IC materials analysis specialists Integrated Service Technology (iST) and Material Analysis Technology (MA-tek) are expected to maintain their sales momentum in the fourth quarter...

Entegris and Gudeng Precision Industrial, both of which have received ASML certification for their reticle pods for high-volume IC manufacturing using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography,...

Intel has started placing equipment and materials orders for EUV fabrication processes since August, and is stepping up its pace of orders, according to industry sources.

The emerging AI, IoT and 5G applications will be stimulating related chip and component demand, with a rebound likely to take place in the memory market next year, according to market...

China-based power battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) and its subsidiary Guangdong Brunp Recycling Technology will set up a joint-venture for making cathode materials...

Polarizer suppliers Cheng Mei Materials Technology (CMMT) and BenQ Materials are both conservative about their business outlooks for the second half of 2019 as prices of polarizer...

Solid-state lithium ceramic battery (LCB) maker ProLogium Technology, in engineering development of such batteries, has succeeded in hiking energy density to 600Wh/L, 20% higher than...

Chip and component demand for 5G related applications, including network equipment, and antennas for handsets and IoT devices, is set to grow robustly starting 2020. In the PCB industry...

Semiconductor materials distributors Wahlee Industrial and Topco Scientific are both optimistic that strong demand for high-end engineering plastics, silicon wafers and photoresist...

Solar cell and PV module maker TSEC and PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials saw second-quarter 2019 operations swing to net losses of NT$24.4 million (US$782,000) and NT$27.4...

Polarizer maker BenQ Materials has reported net profit of NT$86.67 million (US$2.763 million) for the second quarter of 2019, up 23.5% on quarter. EPS for the quarter came to NT$0....

Taiwan-based CCL suppliers including Elite Materials (EMC) and Iteq enjoyed on-year profit increases in the second quarter of 2019, thanks to rising sales of high-end products.

Applied Materials already has five customers adopt its new solutions for the manufacture of MRAM memory, and eight customers for ReRAM and PCRAM chips, according to the semiconductor...

Polymer and high-tech materials supplier Covestro is developing innovative material solutions for 5G devices, such as base stations, active antenna units and other equipment, according...

Japan's tighter export control on photoresists and two other critical materials used in South Korea's high-tech sector are unlikely to benefit TSMC much given the relatively small...

Taiwan-based Topco Scientific, a distributor of semiconductor materials, has clarified that it will supply Japan-sourced photoresist and other related semiconductor materials to clients...

Any form of trade war, such as Japan's restrictions on exports of key chemical materials to Korea, will have a negative impact on global industrial development, as each of the players...

Mobile device testing and certification service company Sporton International has teamed up with Qualcomm to gain US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval for 60GHz Wi-Fi...

Clear order visibility for diverse IC packaging materials is seen through the end of the third quarter of the year thanks mainly to increasingly robust demand from OSAT (outsourced...

Elite Materials (EMC) will continue to see its revenues driven mainly by demand for handsets, but intends to put increased focus on other applications such as servers and network...

Polarizer maker BenQ Materials saw its revenues increase 3.3% on month and 18.4% on year to NT$1.266 billion (US$40.69 million) in June, the company's highest monthly figures since...