LCD chemical material supplier Daxin Materials has disclosed plans to build a new plant at a cost of NT$550 million (US$18.1 million), which will focus on production of new key upstream...

The market for packaging materials for 5G mmWave transmission modules is set to heat up in 2020, with LTCC (low temperature co-fired ceramic) likely to replace LCP (liquid crystal...

Modified polyimide (MPI) and liquid crystal polymer (LCP) materials for smartphone antennas are expected to coexist, with the former being adopted mainly for Android models, and the...

For the first time since 1990, Applied Materials is poised to lose its lead in the semiconductor equipment market, according to The Information Network.

China has set up a CNY147.2 billion (US$20.94 billion) national fund aimed at spurring transformations and upgrades at its manufacturing industries to turn the country into a smart...

Semiconductor equipment maker Foxsemicon Integrated Technology, an affiliate of the Foxconn Group, has seen its monthly revenues return to an on-year growth track with the company's...

Taiwan CCL makers have a chance to land part of orders from their Japan counterpart Panasonic whose plant in northern Japan was seriously hit by floods caused by Typhoon Hagibis in...

Copper-clad laminate (CCL) specialist Iteq has reported net profits surged 79.3% from a year earlier and 23.9% sequentially to a record high of NT$715 million (US$23.5 million) in...

Copper clad laminate (CCL) maker Taiwan Union Technology (TUC) has reportedly encountered some quality issues that may lead to loss of some major orders from Google, according to...

Ten new 6G OLED fabs are set to come online in China by 2021, despite some delays resulting from the US-China trade tensions and weak demand, according to a Taiwan-based upstream...

IC materials analysis specialists Integrated Service Technology (iST) and Material Analysis Technology (MA-tek) are expected to maintain their sales momentum in the fourth quarter...

Entegris and Gudeng Precision Industrial, both of which have received ASML certification for their reticle pods for high-volume IC manufacturing using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography,...

Intel has started placing equipment and materials orders for EUV fabrication processes since August, and is stepping up its pace of orders, according to industry sources.

The emerging AI, IoT and 5G applications will be stimulating related chip and component demand, with a rebound likely to take place in the memory market next year, according to market...

China-based power battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) and its subsidiary Guangdong Brunp Recycling Technology will set up a joint-venture for making cathode materials...

Polarizer suppliers Cheng Mei Materials Technology (CMMT) and BenQ Materials are both conservative about their business outlooks for the second half of 2019 as prices of polarizer...

Solid-state lithium ceramic battery (LCB) maker ProLogium Technology, in engineering development of such batteries, has succeeded in hiking energy density to 600Wh/L, 20% higher than...

Chip and component demand for 5G related applications, including network equipment, and antennas for handsets and IoT devices, is set to grow robustly starting 2020. In the PCB industry...

Semiconductor materials distributors Wahlee Industrial and Topco Scientific are both optimistic that strong demand for high-end engineering plastics, silicon wafers and photoresist...

Solar cell and PV module maker TSEC and PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials saw second-quarter 2019 operations swing to net losses of NT$24.4 million (US$782,000) and NT$27.4...

Polarizer maker BenQ Materials has reported net profit of NT$86.67 million (US$2.763 million) for the second quarter of 2019, up 23.5% on quarter. EPS for the quarter came to NT$0....

Taiwan-based CCL suppliers including Elite Materials (EMC) and Iteq enjoyed on-year profit increases in the second quarter of 2019, thanks to rising sales of high-end products.

Applied Materials already has five customers adopt its new solutions for the manufacture of MRAM memory, and eight customers for ReRAM and PCRAM chips, according to the semiconductor...

Polymer and high-tech materials supplier Covestro is developing innovative material solutions for 5G devices, such as base stations, active antenna units and other equipment, according...

Japan's tighter export control on photoresists and two other critical materials used in South Korea's high-tech sector are unlikely to benefit TSMC much given the relatively small...