China's handset makers shipped a total of 180 million smartphones globally in the second quarter of 2019, down 2.5% on quarter and 5.3% on year, Digitimes Research has estimated.

While Samsung retained the top rank in the world's smartphone market, second-ranked Huawei was the standout performer during the third quarter of 2019 with shipments surging by 14.8...

Sales of the new iPhone 11 series have been stronger-than-expected but may hit the ceiling soon, which may eventually create pressure for supply chain partners to cut quotes, according...

Worldwide notebook shipments are forecast to drop 1.8% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2019 after registering a nearly 2% increase in the prior quarter, according to Digitimes...

China's semiconductor industry has experienced a more reasonable structural adjustment with IC design replacing packaging and testing as the largest segment in terms of revenue contribution...

Use of vapor chamber cooling modules for smartphones is set to expand significantly in 2020 as Samsung Electronics and Huawei are likely to have all of their 5G phones slated for...

Arm will keep licensing its processor IP and rendering service support to its partners in China, having made strict scrutiny of legal issues involved, according to Allen Wu, executive...

Taiwan-based niche-type CCL supplier Ventec Electronics expects 5G applications to be its largest revenue growth driver in 2020 as the company is set to enter volume production of...

China's mobile solution provider HiSilicon Technologies is expected to see its shipments of application processors continue to grow in 2019 with its chips powering nearly 70% of handsets...

The US trade ban may have affected Huawei's business, but it is apparently fueling the Chinese vendor's bid to wean itself off reliance on US technology. Its handset IC design arm,...

Huawei's HiSilicon has unseated Apple as the largest customer of TSMC in terms of advanced process node capacity share, according to industry sources.

MediaTek reportedly has plans to roll out 6nm 5G mobile SoCs with volume production slated to kick off in the fourth quarter of 2020.

Notebooks with 16-inch ultra-thin bezel displays are expected to become a new trend among vendors in the next few years, following the upcoming release of Apple's new notebook, according...

Shipments of wearable devices in Europe grew 154.4% on year to 13.4 million units in the second quarter of 2019, with earwear accounting for 52.3% of shipments in the region, followed...

TSMC is expected to enjoy significant profit increases in 2020 and 2021, after posting its first annual decrease in eight years this year, according to industry observers.

Diodes' planned takeover of Lite-On Semiconductor has gained regulatory approvals in the US and Taiwan, but China's regulatory body has recently claimed that both firms have failed...

Huawei has announced that during the first three quarters of 2019 it generated CNY610.8 billion (US$86.05 billion) in revenues, an increase of 24.4% on year. The company's net profit...

China's leading PCB maker Shennan Circuits (SCC) is expected to generate record-high net profits in the third quarter of 2019, thanks to robust demand for 5G base station equipment...

Supply of high-end camera lens for smartphones has been tight thanks to handset vendors rushing to incorporate multi-lens solutions into their new models, indicating bright shipment...

Taiwan-based PCB suppliers are expected to see their HDI board production lines running at full capacity through the end of 2019, bolstered by upgrades in smartphone mainboards, according...

Global smartphone shipments will continue to decline for the second year in 2019. Although emerging markets have demand coming from feature phone users switching to smartphones, it...

ASE Technology is expected to see its revenues grow quarter by quarter into 2020 thanks to strong packaging demand from major clients including Apple, Huawei's HiSilicon, MediaTek...

Compeq Manufacturing has reported record high sales for September, reportedly propelled by increased shipments of PCB products for Apple's iPhone 11 lineup and Huawei's Mate 30 ser...

Notebook shipments in 2019 are estimated to show a 1.6% increase with vendors ramping up inventory in preparation for the US-China trade war and business notebooks as well as Chromebook...

Buoyed by brisk sales of the iPhone 11 lineup, Apple is likely to outrace Huawei to recapture second place in the global smartphone vendor ranking in the fourth quarter of 2019 after...