Stockpiles of handset inventory in China's distribution channels are now estimated at nearly 60 million units, which may take at least two months to clear out and force handset brands...

The semiconductor industry appears to have escaped the direct impact of the coronavirus crisis so far, but the market is likely to suffer the repercussions as the outbreak slows or...

DRAM contract prices will start rising in the first quarter of 2020, as PC OEMs and cloud service providers become more active in replenishing inventory, according to DRAMeXchange.

SSD retail prices in China have been rising unexpectedly, as channel distributors have become reluctant to sell amid worries about possible supply chain disruptions caused by the...

The global market for TWS earbuds and other devices has been expected to expand sharply in 2020, but certain component shortages due to the coronavirus outbreak are hitting its supply...

Motherboard and graphics card sales in China are expected to plunge 50% or more in the first quarter of 2020, according to sources at local channel distributors, who also expressed...

Faraday Technology, a fabless ASIC service and silicon IP provider, expects to post an around 10% sequential decrease in first-quarter revenue. But revenue for the entire year is...

The coronavirus is spreading through global technology supply chains, impacting diverse and interconnected sectors of the electronics industry. With the epidemic arriving at dawn...

Taiwan-based hinge makers are resuming production in China after extended Lunar New Year holidays in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak but some clients prefer to have their products...

Server supply will remain stable for the rest of February as most brands still have components in their inventory. However, if China's coronavirus outbreak cannot be contained, the...

The notebook and smartphone sectors are both expected to be undermined by China's coronavirus outbreak in the first quarter of 2020 as local consumer demand has been significantly...

Taiwan's shipments of small- to medium-size LCD panels are expected to fall 23.6% on quarter and 2.7% on year in the first quarter of 2020 due to high inventory levels of smartphones,...

Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments in 2019 declined 7% from the 2018 record high, while revenues slipped 2% on year but remained above the US$11 billion mark, according to the...

Taiwan handset supply chain players are conservative about their first-quarter 2020 revenues due to seasonality and the coronavirus outbreak, with their Chinese clients seeing high...

Mobile DRAM demand for smartphones is likely to disappoint in the first half of 2020, as the coronavirus outbreak may hit sales of new 5G-compatible phones, according to market sou...

Taiwan-based IC design houses have seen their first-quarter 2020 order visibility from China for domestic demand seriously blurred in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, making...

SK Hynix saw its operating profits plunge 87% to KRW2.71 trillion (US$2.28 billion) in 2019, while consolidated revenues decreased 33% on year to KRW26.99 trillion. The company generated...

China's smartphone market declined 15% to 85.3 million units in the fourth quarter of 2019, which marked the 11th consecutive quarterly decline and hit the market's lowest level since...

LED chip inventories are generally decreasing toward a healthy level with price drops to slow down, according to LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar.

Anticipating that memory chip prices will be rising this year, memory module makers have started replenishing inventory while also making upward adjustments in their DRAM module quotes,...

In response to reports indicating Washington has increased its pressure on TSMC to have a plant in the US for the fabrication of high-security products, the Taiwan-based foundry said...

Prospects for handset component suppliers are dim in the first quarter of 2020 as China-based handset brands, notably Huawei, are cautious about placing component orders due to relatively...

Cooling fan demand will be rising driven by the availability of new Nvidia and AMD graphics cards, according to Taiwan-based Power Logic, which saw its revenues register a robust...

Digitimes Research estimates that global server shipments moderately declined 1.4% in 2019 but will turn to show positive growth of 6.6% in 2020, totaling 16.01 million units.

Inventory levels in the passive components sector are running low, with clients now starting to replenish their stocks, promising tight supply of capacitors, resistors and inductors,...