Despite the COVID-19 shutdown of the Chinese economy earlier this year, China's share of the pure-play foundry market is forecast to be 22% in 2020, 17pp higher than it registered...
China-based Innosilicon, a provider of high-speed mixed signal IPs and customized chip design services, has recently announced it has completed a chip tape-out and testing based on...
Macronix International, a maker of mask ROM and flash memory, saw its September revenue climb 47.9% sequentially to a 12-month high of NT$4.66 billion (US$162.6 million).
Taiwan-based IC substrate makers including Unimicron Technology, Nan Ya PCB and Kinsus Interconnect Technology are being discouraged from making further investments in China by the...
ASE Technology Holding has announced that Siliconware Electronics (Fujian), a wholly-owned subsidiary in China of its member firm Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL), has been...
Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) has seen several of its suppliers for raw materials, equipment, parts and components start following export restrictions imposed by...
Many Taiwan-based IC design houses affiliated with United Microelectronics (UMC) are facing the pressure of being marginalized in scrambling for the firm's foundry support, as major...
With Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) at risk of being blacklisted by the US government, concerns are growing about whether China-based memory chipmakers ChangXin...
If the US imposes trade sanctions against SMIC - the largest China-based pure-play foundry - the already tight global supply of notebook components could worsen, according to industry...
Increasingly tight 8-inch and 12-inch foundry capacity and resultant foundry quote hikes have posed mixed impacts on chip vendors in Taiwan, with second-tier ones struggling to get...
Taiwan-based pure-play foundries will raise their 8-inch foundry quotes by more than 15% starting the first quarter of 2021, according to industry sources.
Taiwan-based IC design houses have seen orders from Android phone vendors start pulling in, and are more upbeat about their sales outlook for the fourth quarter of 2020.
Executives at Qualcomm have paid visits to Taiwan-based pure-play foundries for the purpose of securing capacity support if deliveries from China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International...
China-based chipmakers have quietly suspended their shipments to Huawei, as well as the joint development projects they had been working with the Chinese vendor, amid concerns about...
A US ban on China's pure-play foundry SMIC, a supplier to GigaDevice, might lead to severe shortages of NOR flash memory, according to Macronix International chairman Miin Wu.
