Fab equipment spending will increase at 5% in 2019 for a fourth consecutive year of growth, according to SEMI. China is expected to be the main driver of fab equipment spending growth...
Taiwan-based Lite-On Semiconductor recently raised its discrete component average selling prices (ASP) by 10-15%, according to industry sources. Demand for discrete components particularly...
North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$2.36 billion in billings worldwide in January 2018 (three-month average basis), according to SEMI. The billings...
Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased 10% in 2017 when compared to 2016 area shipments, while silicon revenues grew 21% on year, according to SEMI.
GaAs IC foundry Win Semiconductors has reported net profits of NT$3.72 billion (US$126.6 million) on consolidated revenues of NT$17.09 billion for 2017. Both results hit record-high...
Lite-On Semiconductor, a maker of discrete and analog IC components, is expected to see multifold increases in its shipments of glass passivated package (GPP) bridge rectifiers for...
North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$2.39 billion in billings worldwide in December 2017 (three-month average basis), according to SEMI. The billings...
GaAs foundry house Win Semiconductors has reported better-than-expected sales for fourth-quarter 2018 as well as the entire year of 2017, buoyed by increased shipments of VCSEL (vertical-cavity...
SEMI has disclosed that 2017 spending on semiconductor fab equipment investments will reach an all-time high of US$57 billion. High chip demand, strong pricing for memory, and fierce...
North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$2.05 billion in billings worldwide in November 2017 (three-month average basis), according to SEMI.
GaAs foundry house Win Semiconductors has signed a MoU to purchase a batch of HBT (heterojunction bipolar transistor) production equipment from its strategic partner Avago Technologies...
SEMI has projected that worldwide sales of new semiconductor manufacturing equipment will increase 35.6% to US$55.9 billion in 2017, marking the first time that the semiconductor...
Advantest and China-based SJ Semiconductor have signed a volume purchase agreement that calls for China's middle-end-of-line (MEOL) semiconductor test-service company to buy T5830...
Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments continued trending up in the third quarter of 2017, increasing 0.7% sequentially and hitting a new high in terms of quarterly shipments, according...
