Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reported consolidated revenues fell 13.1% sequentially to NT$78.09 billion (US$2.53 billion)...

GaAs IC foundry Win Semiconductors expects robust demand for 3D sensing and 5G related applications to drive its mid- and long-term business growth.

Taiwan led all regions/countries in wafer capacity with 21.8% share, a slight increase from 21.3% in 2017, according to IC Insights. Taiwan first became the global wafer capacity...

Lite-On Semiconductor has set up a new business unit to combine its discrete component and power management IC offerings, the company has disclosed.

IC testing solution provider Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) will kick off production in small volume for satellite communication PCBs at the end of 2019, according to industry...

ASE Technology Holding, the parent company of IC packagers Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL), has reported January consolidated...

IC design service company Global Unichip has reported net profits of NT$988 million (US$32 million) on consolidated revenues of NT$13.46 billion for 2018, with both results hitting...

China-based IC production is forecast to exhibit a strong 2018-2023 CAGR of 15%, according to IC Insights. Considering that China-based IC production was only US$23.8 billion in 2018,...

IC design houses are under increasing pressure to lower quotes as their downstream OEM and ODM clients in Taiwan and China have suspended taking shipments amid loosening wafer foundry...

Specialty IC foundry Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) expects to post a revenue decrease of 8-13% sequentially in the first quarter of 2019, citing inventory adjustments...

The Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute (TRSI) was inaugurated on January 30 under the National Applied Research Laboratories (NARLabs), marking the world's only national tech...

ASE Technology Holding expects revenues to drop in the first quarter of 2019, due to inventory correction at customers engaged in the handset- and communication-related IC sector...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has seen the delivery time for chips produced on its advanced node processes reduced to less than two months compared with over three...

PCB and IC substrate supplier Unimicron Technology has decided to increase its capex budget this year by NT$2.32 billion (US$75.5 million) to total NT$8.3 billion, according to a...

Annual semiconductor unit shipments, including integrated circuits and optoelectronics, sensors and discrete (O-S-D) devices, grew 10% in 2018 and surpassed the one trillion unit...

Several major China- and Taiwan-based contract chipmakers including United Microelectronics (UMC), Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC), Vanguard International Semiconductor...

Taiwan's production value of LCD driver ICs is expected to grow 17% on year in the fourth quarter of 2018 driven by rising unit shipments and prices propelled by growing demand for...

As TSMC will surely take time digesting its iPhone AP inventory amid lingering lackluster sales of Apple's smartphones, most Taiwan IC designers are worried their gross margins in...

Taiwan backend service providers are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward their business prospects for 2019 amid a spate of undesirable factors including the volatile US-China tariff...

Taiwan's prosecutors have launched an investigation into four former Novatek Microelectronics employees over allegations of trade secret theft.

The semiconductor industry is expected to allocate the largest portion of its capex spending for flash memory again in 2019, marking the third consecutive year that flash has led...

IC distributors WPG and WT Microelectronics both saw their December revenues register double-digit sequential decreases, but their revenues for all of 2018 still hit record-high le...

Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) saw its consolidated revenues fall to a 12-month low of NT$11.39 billion (US$369.6 million) in December, but revenues for all of 2018...

With the rise of fabless IC companies in China, demand for foundry services has also risen in the country. According to IC Insights, pure-play foundry sales generated from the China...

The huge annual trade deficit of up to US$375 billion is definitely a major reason for the US to raise tariffs on goods imported from China, but the trade war seems to be more of...