Lackluster handset sales have led to excess inventories of related CMOS image sensors (CIS), also dragging down wafer reconstitution (RW) demand, according to industry sources.
CMOS image sensor sales are expected to suffer their first sales decline in 13 years because of a smartphone slump, low camera growth in handsets, and weak global economy, according...
Japan-based semiconductor materials suppliers are facing sales declines in the second half of the year amid weakening demand for consumer applications, but many of them are still...
Will Semiconductor (WillSemi), China's top image sensor manufacturer, and other companies in the sector have accelerated their transformation efforts as the automotive electronics...
CMOS image sensor (CIS) packaging service provider Tong Hsing Electronic Industries is constructing its fourth plant in northern Taiwan, with the facility to begin production in the...
Taiwan-based Xintec, a WLCSP (wafer level chip scale package) specialist under TSMC, has approved a capital expense of NT$2.5 billion (US$83.33 million) to expand capacity at existing...
Although global demand for entry-level and mid-range smartphones tends to decline, Sony expects demand for CMOS image sensors (CIS) used in high-end smartphones to remain robust in...
Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing (PSMC) has reported contract violations by its display driver IC clients who would rather honor punitive payments than see their inventories...
Shipments of high-end handset camera modules remain strong for new iPhones in the second half of the year, but stay in low gear for Android smartphones though vendors continue to...
Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing (PSMC) has turned conservative about its business prospects for the rest of 2022, as display driver IC and other fabless chip customers kick...
While Will Semiconductor (WillSemi), with its subsidiary OmniVision, is now a major player in CMOS image sensoor market, China-based GalaxyCore played an essential role in driving...
The debut of the world's first dual-camera handset in 2011 kicked off a competition between handset vendors of adding more cameras on mobile phones, pressing brand vendors including...
CMOS image sensor backend specialists including Tong Hsing Electronic Industries and Xintec are vying for more orders coming from the automotive sector to offset weakness in handset...
Tight capacity supply at 8-inch wafer fabs is on track to ease on weakening demand for large-size display driver ICs, CMOS image sensors (CIS) and even power management ICs (PMIC)...
Taiwan's IC designers have seen their deployments in automotive applications gradually paying off, but revenues generated from the segment can still hardly offset the ongoing declines...
