A nationwide lockdown in Malaysia has made disruptions to the output from local chip plants, which fulfill mainly orders for entry-level and mid-range logic ICs, and power diodes...

The shortage of automotive chips has begun to ease recently, buoyed by additional capacity support from foundries, according to industry sources.

Taiwan-based OSATs and chip probing service providers are upbeat about backend demand for automotive chips over the next three to four years, as international IDMs such as Renesas...

Most EV startups are expected to see their growth momentum dented by the increasing difficulty in obtaining foundry capacity support for chips they need, according to industry sour...

NXP Semiconductors is another chip vendor which has struck a long-term deal with United Microelectronics (UMC) under which the pure-play foundry will have some of its newly-established...

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...

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.

Delivery lead times for analog chips including MCU and power MOSFET chips have been further extended, which will continue to boost the chip prices in the second quarter of 2021, according...

Renesas saw one of its plants in northern Japan struck by fire and the incident could lead to a further tightening of...

It will become a new normal for chip vendors to offer higher prices to win more capacity support from foundry partners, now that global shortages of automotive chips are further compounded...

Global automotive chips shortages worsened by a recent fire damaging Renesas' plant in northern Japan are casting clouds over normal shipments at Taiwan's automotive PCB vendors as...

Backend house Powertech Technology (PTI) will provide automotive chips vendor Renesas Electronics with additional capacity support starting April, as the IDM's backend bumping capacity...

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...

Taiwan's backend service firms will see their ratios of revenues from processing automotive chips ramp up through at least the third quarter 2021, according to industry sources.

IDM vendors may consider outsourcing more of their production starting 2022, with Taiwan-based contract chipmakers being among the beneficiaries, according to industry sources.