Nanya Technology holds an around 3% share of the DRAM market, and is striving to defend its global market share with an additional 12-inch wafer fab set to come online in 2024, according...

Foxconn will continue to invest in Wisconsin but will look for suitable business sectors there, according to company chairman Young-Way Liu in response to the firm's decision to downsizing...

Taiwan-based DRAM maker Nanya Technology has announced plans to establish a new 12-inch wafer fab designed for the company's in-house developed 10nm-class and EUV-based process man...

Car vendors are dealing with a structural shortage of automotive chips resulting in their supply constraints, according to industry sources, who believe the impact of a recent power...

LG Electronics is shutting down all smartphone plants and looking to find buyers after announcing its decision in early April to quit its loss-ridden smartphone business, according...

AUO is expanding capacity at its Kunshan, China plant, with new capacity scheduled to arrive in the third quarter of 2022.

TSMC chairman Mark Liu, who participated in a virtual summit hosted by the Biden administration to discuss global chip shortages and the US plan to rebuild its semiconductor manufacturing...

Taiwan-based NOR flash chipmakers have seen more of their clients eager to strike long-term supply agreements, according to industry sources.

Renesas Electronics is reportedly seeking capacity support from TSMC and other Taiwan-based foundries to fill its supply shortfall caused by the suspension of its fire-damaged fab.

Pure-play foundries United Microelectronics (UMC) and Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing (PSMC) will initiate further price hikes of about 10-20% with the new pricing to be effective...

A fire broke out at Panjit International's plant in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan on the afternoon of March 29, and was put out soon without disrupting its production, according to the...

Japan-based semiconductor equipment vendor Tokyo Electron is reportedly eyeing the acquisition of a 6-inch wafer fab in Taiwan that has been put up on sale, while fellow companies...

OSAT firm Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL), wholly owned by ASE Technology, has secured 14.5 hectares of land in the Central Taiwan Science Park in Changhua County, where the...

Pegatron will complete its factory site expansions in Vietnam and India in the second half of 2021 and begin an expansion at a plant in North America in 2021, according to company...

Backend houses ASE Technology and ShunSin Technology are both expected to enjoy a surge in orders for optical communication modules for 5G device applications starting the second...

Automotive PCB specialist Chin-Poon Industrial expects capacity utilization at its plant in Changshu, China to rise above 90% as early as April, thanks to additional workforce support,...

A recent fire that struck one of Renesas' plants in Japan may lead to a further tightening in the world's available production capacity for automotive chips, according to industry...

Winbond Electronics' board of directors has approved a capex budget of approximately NT$13.13 billion (US$463.83 million) to invest in the company's new 12-inch wafer plant located...

Scientech, a provider of silicon wafer reclaim services and chipmaking equipment, is expected to post a double-digit revenue increase in 2021, according to market sources.

SK Hynix has signed a 5-year contract worth KRW4.75 trillion (US4.3 billion) with ASML to procure extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography systems, local media reports in South Korea...

A rally in DRAM and flash memory prices will boost Winbond Electronics' memory business revenue in March and April, according to Pei-Ming Chen, president for the specialty DRAM and...

TSMC could set up an advanced wafer fab in Europe, where demand for leading-edge chip fabrication is promising, according to industry observers.

Components and materials have been in short supply for the IT upply chain, and the shortages may have been further compounded by a fire that hit Unimicron's...

A fire broke out February 4 at Unimicron Technology's PCB and IC substrate manufacturing complex in Taoyuan, northern Taiwan, where its BT substrate plant had been just damaged by...

SK Hynix has completed construction of a new DRAM plant, dubbed M16, where extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography equipment is installed, according to the memory chip vendor.