As of December 2020, only TSMC was among the wafer capacity leaders in each of the main wafer size categories ranked by IC Insights. The Taiwan-based foundry had the most 200mm wafer...

China-based power MOSFET and other power device suppliers have already raised their quotes by 10-15% recently amid tight foundry capacity, and will make another upward price adjustments,...

LFP (lithium iron phosphate) batteries, with penetration growing in China, are expected to split the Chinese market with ternary batteries in a 50-50 ratio in 2021, according to industry...

Fourth-quarter 2020 smartphone AP shipments to China-based vendors amounted to 211.6 million units, up 9.9% quarter-over-quarter and 7.7% year-over-year.

Taiwan-based ASIC and SoC design service providers including Alchip, Faraday Technology and Global Unichip will continue to enjoy robust demand from China's chipmaking industry in...

Monitor shipments in the China market are likely to grow 3% on year to 35.6 million units in 2021, having expanded 2.4% to 34.5 million units in 2020, according to Sigmaintell Cons...

Leading China-based smartphone vendors have focused on production differentiation to maintain competitiveness in the global market.

China became the largest IC market in the world in 2005 and has continued to grow in size since then. In 2020, China's IC market increased to US$143.4 billion, a 9% gain from US$131.3...

Smartphone vendors are upbeat about the midrange segment of the 5G phone market which is set to grow robustly in 2021.

The handset market in China is recovering, with shipments staging a strong rebound in January ahead of the Lunar New Year holidays. January handset...

Shipments of handsets staged a significant rebound in the China market in January, fueled by seasonal demand ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday and the rollouts of new budget 5G...

TSMC's ecosystem partners based in Taiwan are expected to post strong sales results for the first quarter of 2021, as well as the entire year, buoyed by brisk demand for chips fabricated...

Notebook brand vendors are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward whether to have their supply chain partners move production out of China, as the Biden administration is not expected...

TSMC is believed to have been under political pressure to set up an advanced wafer fab locally in the US in the wake of the US-China trade war. The pure-play foundry has also come...

Gianfranco Lanci, COO and president for Lenovo, will retire from the PC vendor in September 2021. The company also disclosed organization and personnel changes that will become effective...

Smartphone shipments to the China market are expected to fall over 10% sequentially in the first quarter of 2021, after growing 19.2% in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to Digitimes...

Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached US$439 billion in 2020, up 6.5% on year, according to SIA.

Taiwan's inductor makers are expected to sustain high capacity utilization in most of 2021, and will move to enforce capacity expansions later in the year to meet strong demand from...

Chinese smartphone vendors are expected to see robust annual growths in first-quarter 2021 shipments to both the domestic and overseas markets, according to Digitimes Research.

Shipments of smartphone-use application processors (AP) to China, including those for handset exports, will stay flat sequentially in the first quarter of 2021, according to Digitimes...

With major Taiwan-based foundries expressing their supply commitments to their automotive customers, fabless chipmakers particularly second-tier players have expressed concerns about...

SK Hynix has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Dalian Municipal People's Government of China and the Administrative Committee of Jinpu New District, Dalian, under...

Aluminum electrolytic capacitor suppliers in Taiwan and China are significantly ramping up their shipments to meet strong demand for 5G base station, automotive and work-from-home...

The smartphone market in China finished 2020 with 84 million units shipped in the fourth quarter, declining 4% on year, according to Canalys. For full-year 2020, the China market...

LCD panel maker AUO will manage to maintain full capacity at its facilities in Taiwan and China during Lunar New Year to meet robust demand from clients, according to company chairman...