Samsung Electronics has offered discounts fo its foundry services aiming to win customers from TSMC, according to industry sources.

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...

NAND flash contract market prices are expected to rise 10-15% in the first quarter of 2020, thanks to suppliers' output controls and a pick-up in demand for datacenter applications,...

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...

Samsung Electronics and China's Yangtze Memory Technology (YMTC) have both stepped up equipment purchases for building additional new NAND flash fabrication lines since the second...

Handset vendors and related supply chain makers in China are accelerating their push to build up production capacities outside China as the country's production of smartphones are...

Goodix Technology is set to ramp up shipments of its optical in-display fingerprint sensors in 2020, and has reportedly reserved sufficient 8-inch fab capacity from TSMC, according...

Samsung has carved out a commanding lead in the nascent 5G smartphone market, with the company accounting for three-quarters of worldwide shipments in the third quarter of 2019, according...

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...

Taiwan's TV maker shipped a total of 7.39 million LCD TVs in the third quarter, up 3.2% sequentially.

The main battlefield in the 5G mobile chip market is expected to shift from flagship models to mostly midrange ones in the first half of 2020, as around 70% of over 200 million 5G...

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...

Taiwan PC monitor shipments continued to grow on-year in the third quarter of 2019 at 5.8% to arrive at 23.73 million units.

Mobile chipmakers are gearing up to secure stronger support from supply chain partners aiming to gain a greater presence in the market for 5G smartphones whose shipments are estimated...

Global tablet shipments came to a total of 44.32 million units in the third quarter of 2019, up 35.7% sequentially and 1.5% on year.

Global sales of smartphones to end users continued to decline in the third quarter of 2019, contracting by 0.4% compared with the third quarter of 2018, according to Gartner. Demand...

Taiwan's large-size LCD panel shipments rose 2.1% sequentially in the third quarter of 2019.

System-in-package (SiP) will gain significant growth momentum in 2020 as it will be badly needed to process wireless connectivity devices including RF front-end modules, antenna modules...

When planning the rollouts of their 5G networks, Taiwan's telecom operators should not focus on factors such as the extended cost for network coverage, but rather on whether the loading...

The memory market market is expected to recover next year, but suppliers remain cautious about expanding output. Samsung's bit growth for NAND...

Samsung Electronics' NAND flash bit supply growth is expected to drop below 30% and even 25% in 2020, down from 35-40% this year, according to industry sources.

Smartphone shipments by China-based vendors in third-quarter 2019 came to a total of above 180 million units, down 2.5% on quarter and 5.3% on year.

Taiwan-based Egis Technology (EgisTec) expects to post a slight sequential decrease in fourth-quarter revenues. Revenues will return to sequential growth in the first quarter of 2020,...

Taiwan's notebook shipments rise 1.8% sequentially and 8.6% on year to come to 34.14 million in the third quarter of 2019.