As the auction of 5G spectrums in Taiwan has reached an end, telecom carriers' high bidding prices are expected to prompt them to accelerate the adoption of x86 servers in their equipment...

Compal Electronics expects its notebook shipments to register only flat growth on year in 2020, but shipments of its non-notebook products such as wearables, smart home devices, automotive...

Getac has announced it has been selected by the BMW Group to supply rugged mobile devices and solutions across its global network for a wide range of applications including R&D,...

Taiwan-based Integrated Service Technology (iST), Sporton International and Materials Analysis Technology (MA-tek), all dedicated to semiconductor materials analysis, IC test and...

Taiwan-based AIMobile has developed a mobile streetlight that can be established at road intersections with frequent accidents or during rallies to collect data.

The global supply of 5G mobile chips remains constrained, due to tight 7nm manufacturing process capacities at foundries, according to industry sources.

OmniVision Technologies has announced at CES 2020 the OV48C, a 48 megapixel (MP) image sensor with a large 1.2 micron pixel size to enable high resolution and low light performance...

Leading smartphone brands Samsung and Huawei are ramping up consumption of their own application processor solutions in their products, causing market share to shift away from top...

MediaTek has introduced its Dimensity 800 series, a new 7nm SoC designed for mid-range 5G smartphones slated for launch later in the first half of 2020.

Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) saw sales generated from its new VPC (vertical probe card) product line grow to account for a double-digit percentage of the company's total revenues...

NAND flash contract prices are forecast to rise by up to 40% in 2020, according to sources at memory chipmakers.

While Huawei has continued to ramp up self-sufficiency for mobile chips via its chip arm Hisilicon Technologies, other Chinese handset players including Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo have...

MediaTek is expected to embrace an ambitious strategy to grow its presence in the 5G smartphone SoC sector. It will focus its efforts on 5G chip solutions for the upper midrange smartphone...

Synaptics has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to divest its mobile LCD TDDI business to Hua Capital through a special purpose entity backed by Hua-Capital Cayman for...

Baidu and Samsung Electronics have announced jointly that Baidu's first cloud-to-edge AI accelerator, Baidu Kunlun, has completed its development and will be mass-produced early next...

The global market for wearables is on track to ship 305.2 million units in 2019, up 71.4% from the 178 million units shipped in 2018, according to IDC. From there, total volumes will...

Unit prices for 5G mobile SoCs may begin to ease off in the second half of 2020, according to industry sources.

DRAM spot market prices have begun to rebound, according to DRAMeXchange. Market sentiment has been strengthened while buyers are more willing to raise their inventory levels.

While ToF (time of flight) 3D sensing technology is mostly used in rear cameras of smartphones and facial recognition currently, it has potential of being used in autonomous driving,...

Hisilicon Technologies, a chip arm of Huawei, will be ready to sell its IoT chip modules on open market in early 2020 at the earliest, according to company technology vice president...

Chinese handset vendor Oppo is currently developing a mobile processor in house, and the chip, dubbed M1, is an auxiliary processor, according to a China-based tech.qq.com...

Robust orders for 5G smartphone application processors from the world's major Android phone vendors will allow backend house ASE Technology Holding to enjoy a particularly strong...

Global shipments of wearable devices totaled 84.5 million units in the third quarter of 2019, an on-year increase of 94.6% and a new record for shipments in a single quarter, according...

Qualcomm has launched new Arm-based processors for notebooks. Among the chips, the new Snapdragon 7c series designed for entry-level devices reportedly adopts ASE Technology's system-in-package...

Qualcomm has introduced its new Snapdragon 865 and 765 seies SoC chips designed for 5G-capable Android smartphones slated for launch in 2020. TSMC and Samsung Foundry reportedly are...