Many foundry houses and IDMs are mulling scaling back or postponing their capacity expansions amid sharply weakening chip demand for consumer applications, except for TSMC, which...
GPU chips, with their powerful parallel computing capability and excellent programmability, are becoming an area of intense competition among semiconductor players, and many fabless...
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) and Intel are facing different constraints in expanding their presence in the global foundry market while they are on track to...
Taiwan's top foundry TSMC and leading silicon wafer vendor GlobalWafers are playing crucial roles in helping the US rebooting its semiconductor supply, with the former constructing...
With declining chip demand for consumer devices and new capacities gradually coming online, foundry houses could hardly sustain full utilization of their fab capacities, but it is...
GlobalFoundries has kicked off equipment move-in at the foundry's new facility on its Singapore campus, with the first tool - a market-leading etch tool made by Lam Research - moved...
United Microelectronics (UMC) reportedly is mulling raising its 2023 quotes by around 6% for 22/28 nm processes that have been in strong demand, despite uncertainties associated with...
GlobalFoundries has announced a US$117 million agreement with the US Department of Defense (DoD) to provide a strategic supply of US-made semiconductors that are critical to national...
Poor 3nm GAA process yield performance is deemed as a major setback for Samsung Electronics in its advanced foundry technology race with TSMC, which may dash the Korean tech giant's...
Ayar Labs has announced it is partnering with Lumentum, the largest manufacturer of optical and photonics products, to deliver CW-WDM MSA compliant external laser sources in high...
After dropping 2% in 2019, the global foundry market logged a strong 21% rebound in 2020, driven by sales of application processors and other components for 5G smartphones, according...
GlobalFoundries' next-generation silicon photonics platform, GF Fotonix, is available now to address the explosive growth of soaring data volumes while significantly reducing power...
After surging 36% in 2021, semiconductor industry capital spending is forecast to jump 24% in 2022 to a new all-time high of US$190.4 billion, according to IC Insights.
TSMC and its fellow Taiwan-based pure-play foundries are expected to see their combined global market share top 70%, when their additional fab capacities come online, according to...
