Robust orders for advanced fabrication and packaging services at TSMC have prompted the foundry to team up with Materials Analysis Technology (MA-tek) and Integrated Service Technology...

TSMC has placed orders for several hundred sets of test equipment with Teradyne, and will install the tools at the foundry's new advanced backend plant in northern Taiwan, according...

Cadence Design Systems has announced that Global Unichip Corporation (GUC) successfully deployed its digital implementation and signoff flow and delivered advanced-node (N16, N12...

Taiwan-based clean room engineering specialist Acter is expected to see its revenues pick up steadily in 2020 as major clients in Taiwan and China will boost capex to step up major...

FOPLP (fan-out panel level package) will be a new option that is not meant to support pushes to 7nm, 5nm or even more advanced nodes but rather to provide a packaging solution that...

High-end FPGA chips demand is mounting significantly for datacenter, 5G and AIoT applications, providing growth momentum for related wafer foundry, analysis and test players as well...

Intel, addressing the increasing use of heterogeneous architectures in high-performance computing, has announced a new category of discrete general-purpose GPUs optimized for AI and...

Taiwan-based PCB makers are planning to maintain normal production during the Lunar New Year holidays in late January thanks to clear visibility of orders from Apple and Chinese handset...

The board of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has approved capital appropriations of about US$6.62 billion for the construction of new fab facilities, installation...

Taiwan-based IC testing interface supplier WinWay Technology has entered the supply chains of major chipmakers in the US and China with high-end customized IC sockets and will venture...

Taiwan semiconductor backend supply chain players are poised to ramp up their shipments and revenues in line with aggressive rollout of diverse 5G chip solutions by major chipmakers,...

TSMC is set to enjoy another year of record-high sales in 2019, but net profits are unlikely to break the record high set last year due mainly to disappointing results during the...

TSMC expects to enjoy another quarter of record high revenues, while adding an additional US$4 billion in its full-year capital budget. The pure-play foundry has forecast revenues...

Taiwan-based Unimicron and Na Ya PCB have both seen revenues for the third quarter of 2019 reach high levels thanks to robust shipments of ABF substrates, and the growth momentum...

The global IC foundry industry output value will grow by a CAGR of 5.3% to reach US$75.42 billion in 2024, the final year of a five-year forecast period, driven by chip demand for...

According to Digitimes Research's observation, the server market is experiencing sluggish growth in 2019 with customer inventory level running high. However, as inventory depletion...

Arm and TSMC have announced jointly an industry-first 7nm silicon-proven chiplet system based on multiple Arm cores and leveraging TSMC's chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) advanced...

Construction of 5G mmWave base stations has been slow worldwide except in the US due to some major challenges affecting the development of related technologies, but Qualcomm has come...

Chunghwa Precision Test Tech (CHPT) has gained new growth momentum as it has received new VPC (vertical probe card) orders from Israeli and Chinese clients for processing ASICs, AI...

Backend service leader ASE Technology Holding plans to set up 15 lights-out fabs by the end of 2020 as part of its efforts to strengthen smart production capability to support high-end...

Powertech Technology (PTI) with its fan-out panel-level packaging (FOPLP) technology has obtained orders for high performance computing (HPC) solutions designed for AI and networking...

Huawei is stepping up purchases of IC substrates from its Taiwan-based suppliers, including Unimicron Technology and Nan Ya PCB, according to industry sources.

The lead time for production of 7nm chips at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has extended to nearly six months from the previous two months because of strong demand,...

As 7nm and more-advanced process nodes are increasingly applied to fabricating high-performance computing (HPC) CPUs and GPUs, demand for high-end IC sockets for SLT (system level...

With global market demand on a moderate increase in second-quarter 2019, Taiwan-based semiconductor foundries showed recovery. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), United...