Swancor Holding aims to reach cumulative installation capacity of 520MW by 2020 and 2.6GW by 2025 for offshore wind farms in the Taiwan Strait, according to company chairman and president...

PCB drill bit maker Topoint Technology is expected to post a 5-10% sequential decrease in first-quarter revenues, but revenues will start registering sequential growth in the second...

The global supply of passive components is expected to remain tight through 2019, thanks to robust end-market demand, according to Pierre Chen, chairman for Yageo.

Set-top box (STB) chipset developer ALi has obtained orders from Videocon d2h, an India-based direct-to-home (DTH) operator, for Videocon d2h's next-generation high-definition (HD)...

Prices for upstream wafers will rise more than 30% in 2018, according to Miin Wu, chairman for Taiwan-based Macronix International, a supplier of flash memory and mask ROM chips.

China's National Energy Administration (NEA) has canceled plans to install total capacity of 2.2GWp in areas deemed temporarily unsuitable for setting up more PV power stations.

Murata has reportedly raised prices for part of its general-type multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCC), while cutting back production capacity for its conventional product lines.

Flexible PCB manufacturer Career Technology has reached an agreement with Eversol to buy the solar wafer maker's factory in Taoyuan, northern Taiwan for NT$1.57 billion (US$53.6 million),...

Semiconductor manufacturers around the world have closed or repurposed 92 wafer fabs from 2009-2017, according to data compiled by IC Insights.

The worldwide PCB industry output value grew 11.7% to US$65 billion in 2017, according to data compiled by Taiwan Printed Circuit Association (TPCA). The on-year growth was the highest...

China-based polysilicon makers' total annual production capacity increased from 230,000 tons in 2016 to 320,000 tons in 2017 and is expected to further rise to 450,000 tons in 2018,...

Micron Technology has announced three new 64-layer, second-generation 3D NAND storage products, which support the high-speed Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 2.1 standard. Micron's new...

Holtek Semiconductor expects to ship 20 million MCUs for wireless charging applications in 2018, doubling from the company's previously-estimated 10 million units.

New onshore and offshore wind turbine installations totaled 52.552GW around the world in 2017, increasing 2.24% on year and leading to a cumulative total of 539.291GW as of the end...

The second largest China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker HC SemiTek will invest CNY10.8 billion (US$1.71 billion) to develop a production base in a high-tech industrial park...

Yageo and Walsin Technology, two major Taiwan-based passive component suppliers, both delivered record net profits for 2017.

Taiwan-based Ralec Electronic has stopped taking new orders for thick film chip resistors due to tight supply, and is mulling raising its product quotes, according to a report by...

The Bureau of Energy has dismissed skepticism about the practicality of wind power in Taiwan where capacity factor in the summer is estimated at very low levels by some critics.

As the PC and handset industries enter the slow season, the tight supply of passive components from Taiwan-based companies is expected to ease later in the first quarter of 2018,...

China-based ODM Huaqin Telecom Technology expects its combined shipments of smartphones, tablets, notebooks and other IT devices to reach 120 million units in 2018, up from 96 million...

IC industry wafer capacity, specifically in the memory segment, was inadequate to meet demand throughout 2017. However, new IC manufacturing lines are expected to boost industry capacity...

IC packager Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) has disclosed it has spent a total of NT$710.71 million (US$24.3 million) on equipment from Kulicke and Soffa Industries for its...

Intel has introduced the new Intel Xeon D-2100 processor, a system-on-chip (SoC) processor architected to address the needs of edge applications and other data center or network applications...

Major China-based OSAT companies including Jiangsu Changjiang Electronics Technology (JCET), Tongfu Microelectronics and Tianshui Huatian Technology are all gearing up to compete...

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...