HiSilicon, Huawei's chip design subsidiary, will likely fail to beat MediaTek and become the largest Asia-based fabless chipmaker in 2019 as its shipment growth will be affected negatively...

Mobile SoC specialist MediaTek saw its May revenues fall below NT$20 billion (US$636.8 million).

IC testing specialist Sigurd Microelectronics has seen its capacity utilization rate rebound to over 80% recently, thanks to a pull-in of short lead-time orders from mainly China,...

Mobile SoC specialist MediaTek is gearing up to kick off volume production of its new 5G chip solutions starting the second quarter of 2019 through early next year, according to industry...

Unisoc has rolled out its new Bluetooth 5.0-certified solution, dubbed RDA5882, to support dual-mode BLE module designs for true wireless stereo (TWS) headsets.

At the ongoing Computex Taipei 2019, MediaTek has unveiled its new 7nm 5G SoC for flagship smartphones slated for launch in 2020.

According to Digitimes Research statistics, global tablet shipments in first-quarter 2019 were down 12.9% on quarter, but up 13.8% on year.

A recent US court verdict ordering Qualcomm to renegotiate patent licensing deals with customers in accordance with the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) Act may cripple its dominance...

China chipmaker HiSilicon is reportedly to sign with Taiwan IC supply chain partners capacity guarantee agreements valid through the second quarter of 2020, despite uncertainties...

Huawei has reportedly promised not to cut its orders with Taiwan's upstream and downstream supply chain partners and also inquired about the possibility of increasing their production...

Unisoc's Ivy 510 5G modem chip has been validated for 5G NR sub-6 GHz signaling, and will be fabricated by TSMC on the 7nm node for official application in the starting year of 5G...

MediaTek's CEO Rick Tsai has been appointed as chairman of Richtek Technology.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reportedly grabbed orders for all the 5G modem chips that have been introduced by fabless chipmakers, such as Qualcomm's Snapdragon...

Huawei's chipmaking arm HiSilicon is aggressively planning the development of its 5G mobile SoC integrating a modem chip, as well as 5G mmWave solutions for smartphones after releasing...

MediaTek is expected to post sequential revenue and gross margin increases in the second quarter, thanks to a ramp-up in shipments of its high-ASP mobile SoCs, as well as non-mobile...

Qualcomm has introduced the world's first 5G NR mmWave antenna modules and sub-6 GHz RF modules for smartphones and other mobile devices, but Samsung is fast catching up.

Global shipments of tablet PCs are estimated to decline 8.9% sequentially and 8.7% on year in the second quarter of 2019, traditionally still a low season, Digitimes Research estim...

MediaTek has reported net profit fell 16.2% sequentially to a four-quarter low of NT$3.42 billion (US$110,5 million) in the first quarter of 2019, but gross margin climbed 2.3pp on...

Smartphone AP shipments to China slid 29.3% sequentially in first-quarter 2019 under the influence of system integrators' inventory adjustment and fewer working days.

Memory backend specialist Powertech Technology is aggressively developing its advanced packaging technology capability for logic IC production, and will remain focused on fan-out...

MediaTek is expected to kick off shipments of its Helio M70 5G modem chips to China smartphone vendors in the second quarter of 2019 to cash in on the first wave of 5G business opportunities,...

With the crypto mining fever subsiding, many Taiwan backend houses have seen their FC-CSP machines dedicated to packaging mining ASICs stay idle since late 2018, forcing them into...

Mobile modem chips are likely to become scarce strategic resources in the 5G era, now that Intel has decided to exit the 5G smartphone modem market to focus on 4G and 5G modems for...

Samsung Electronics increased its lead as the No. 1 semiconductor vendor due to the booming DRAM market in 2018, according to Gartner. However, the memory chip giant is likely to...

MediaTek is expected to post revenues of between NT$56 billion (US$1.82 billion) and NT$61 million in the second quarter of 2019, representing a 7-14% sequential increase, with gross...