Replacement demand from the consumer sector, in addition to Chromebooks, will be driving the overall notebook market growth in 2021, according to Acer chairman and CEO Jason Chen.

Smartphone-use lens module maker Largan Precision is unlikely to have production capacity fully utilized in the fourth quarter of 2020 mainly because a major client has cancelled...

Worldwide semiconductor sales registered an on-year increase for the seventh consecutive month in August 2020.

Charles Kau, formerly president for Taiwan's Nanya Technology, has stepped down as executive VP of global operations for Tsinghua Unigroup as his five-year contract with the China-based...

Globalfoundries has announced the next generation of its FDX platform, 22FDX+, designed to meet the ever-growing need for higher performance and ultra-low power requirements of connected...

Acer has seen sales generated from non-PC products climb as a proportion of company revenues to 20%, and expects the proportion to continue expanding thanks to its business diversification...

August billings among North American manufacturers of semiconductor production equipment registered sequential growth for the second consecutive month.

Acer has had to reschedule 70% of its notebook deliveries to next month due to shortages of panels and diverse ICs, especially those for educational models which will see strong demand...

Networking device provider Unizyx Holding saw its gross margin improve in the first half of 2020 and expects its earnings to continue moving upward in the second half of the year...

Although brand vendors and ODMs have been keen on Chromebook shipments recently, component suppliers are wary of possible fluctuations in orders from this notebook segment, according...

ZNT-Richter is a global IT company. In the past 30+ years, ZNT has successfully developed software solutions suitable for the manufacturing industry to help customers improve production...

Flash device controller specialist Phison Electronics has enjoyed robust demand for PCIe Gen4 SSDs thus far in 2020, which boosted its overall SSD controller sales during the first...

Display driver IC specialist Himax Technologies expects to post an around 20% revenue increase sequentially in the third quarter of 2020, with flat growth or a slight decrease in...

PMOLED panel maker RiTdisplay has taped out commodity mini LED display products and is ready to ship samples to clients for validation, with commercial shipments likely to kick off...

The ultimate purpose of applying IoV (Internet of vehicle) to urban traffic is to maximize its efficiency, according to Thomas Stein, CEO for the Taiwan branch of Siemens Mobility.

NAND flash device controller specialist Silicon Motion Technology expects to post revenues of between US$114 million and US$120 million in the third quarter of 2020, down 12-17% sequentially,...

Despite a deceleration in demand from the work-from-home segment, Acer's notebook orders from the education segment, particularly those for Chromebooks, remain robust in the third...

TPK Holding will double its touch-enabled notebook-use LCD module (LCM) capacity by year-end 2020 and further expand it to four times as much as the current level by early 2021 to...

Intel at its recent earnings call disclosed that its next-generation 7nm processors, including the company's first 7nm datacenter GPU design, would rely on external and internal process...

Synaptics has announced a deal to acquire DisplayLink, which provides high-performance video interface technology. This comes on the heels of the acquisition of Broadcom's WiFI and...

TSMC has revised upward its 5G smartphone penetration rate forecast for 2020 to 17-19%, but expects the overall smartphone shipments this year to decline 11-13%.

TSMC expects to see 5nm process technology account for about 8% of its total wafer revenue in 2020, compared with the about 10% estimated previously. The foundry also confirmed it...

Demand for 400G network switches is expected to heat up in the second half of 2020 with mass shipments to begin in 2021, according to Taiwan-based network equipment suppliers.

Acer is optimistic about its notebook sales in the second half of 2020, with abundant orders in hand waiting to be fulfilled, according to company chairman and CEO Jason Chen. The...

Micro-Star International (MSI) president and CEO Charles Chiang died at the age of 56 following a fall from the seventh floor of the firm's headquarters in New Taipei on July 7.