The Trump administration's latest move to slap a 10% tariff on the remaining US$300 billion worth of Chinese imports, including handsets, notebooks and TVs, starting September 1 may...
Taiwan's top IC backend specialist ASE Technology Holding has seen its SiP (system in package) business expand substantially so far this year amid growing demand for heterogeneous...
Mask ROM and flash memory chipmaker Macronix International has reported net profits surged 86% sequentially to NT$264 million (US$8.5 million) in the second quarter of 2019, with...
SK Hynix saw its operating profits fall 89% from a year earlier to KRW638 billion (US$540.8 million) in the second quarter of 2019, when consolidated revenues slid 38% on year to...
Specialty DRAM and flash memory chipmaker Winbond Electronics on July 22 held a beam-raising ceremony for its new 12-inch wafer plant in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan. The new facility...
Winbond Electronics expects to start operating a new 12-inch wafer plant in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan by 2021, when the DRAM and flash memory chipmaker has its in-house developed...
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...
Nanya Technology expects to see its server DRAM shipments start ramping up substantially in the fourth quarter of 2019. The product segment will account for about 10% of the company's...
Microcontroller design specialist Nuvoton Technology has acquired an around 7.14% stake in Israel-based Autotalks, a developer of vehicle-to-vehicle communications chips, for US$20...
Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) has announced plans to delist its American depositary shares (ADS) from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The decision was made...
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...
