Global semiconductor materials market revenue edged down 1.1% in 2019, according to SEMI.

E&R Engineering has recently enjoyed an influx of short lead-time orders from China's semiconductor industry, which will be buoying its sales performance during the second quarter...

China has renewed its campaign to cut reliance on US suppliers of crucial semiconductor components following the easing of the coronavirus spread in the country, showing strong demand...

The Anti-Monopoly Bureau in China has lifted its restrictive conditions on the joint establishment of ASE Technology Holding by Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Siliconware...

CMOS image sensor (CIS) backend specialists including Tong Hsing Electronic Industries and Xintec are expanding capacity seeking to satisfy growing demand for multi-lens camera pho...

High-end high performance computing (HPC) chips solutions are entailing ever-rising packaging complexity along with their increasing applications to large-size datacenters and networking...

Backend and verification demand for ASICs, AI chips and HPC (high performance computing) chips from segments of 5G base stations, servers and datacenters has remained strong despite...

Semiconductor firms in Taiwan and China have advanced the stocking of materials amid uncertain development and impacts of the global coronavirus spread, allowing materials distributors...

Micron Technology has begun sampling what the company claims is the industry's first universal flash storage (UFS) multichip package (uMCP) with low-power DDR5 (LPDDR5) DRAM. The...

Quanta Computer and Inventec both saw their notebook shipments fall significantly on month in February due to the coronavirus impact.

Taiwan-based Tong Hsing Electronic Industries, dedicated to backend services for CMOS image sensors (CIS), saw its revenues rise 19.22% on year to NT$1.272 billion (US$ 42.34 million)...

Smartphone AP shipments to China-based vendors came to 197 million units, down 5.9% on year and 7.7% on quarter.

TSMC is unqestionably the global leader in the pure-play foundry, but it is also gearing up efforts expanding its presence in the backend sector. Its advanced wafer-level...

Pure-play foundry TSMC has been expanding its presence in the advanced wafer-level packaging field, and is set to enjoy rising utilization of its backend capacity starting the second...

LED lighting vendors have turned conservative in placing OEM orders recently due to the impact of China's coronavirus outbreak, with overall demand for LED lighting in the first half...

Notebook makers are turning cautious about purchasing some specific components such as MLCCs and chip resistors that are running low in inventory and facing price hikes, as the purchases...

Over 10,000 employees have not yet returned to plants at three major Chinese backend service firms JCET, Tongfu Microelectronics and Tianshui Huatian Technology in the wake of the...

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...

Holtek and other Taiwan-based MCU firms have landed an influx of short lead-time orders for healthcare applications, such as ear thermometers, as demand has been surging since the...

Taiwan-based Spirox, which distributes packaging and testing equipment, has struck a strategic partnership with Japan-based Wintest under which the pair will jointly develop semiconductor...

While consolidation in the semiconductor industry contributed to lower growth rates in R&D spending in the past five years, the long-term trend has been for a slowdown in annual...

The production value of Taiwan's semiconductor industry reached NT$2.6 trillion (US$86.713 billion) in 2019, according to science and technology minister Chen Liang-gee.

With TSMC - the world's top pure-play foundry - anticipating record-high capex levels this year, semiconductor equipment vendors particularly those engaged in TSMC's supply chain...

Taiwan's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) is urging the local industry and academy to devote more efforts to R&D on electronic design automation (EDA) to fill Taiwan's...

Nepcon Japan 2020 running January 15-17 in Tokyo saw its first-day semiconductor forum steal the show with heavyweight firms TSMC and Micron shedding light on latest packaging technologies...