Taiwan-based ASIC vendors expect staggering growth in orders in the next few years, driven by demand from the high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors...

On November 26, 2018, Microsoft saw its market value of US$807 billion surpass Apple's NT$805 billion, officially making the software giant the most valuable IT player worldwide....

Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) plans to launch a large-scale recruitment drive in 2019 as it expects to see an unprecedented wave of up to 5,000 of its employees applying for retirements...

Smaller vendors of TDDI, optical fingerprint identification and Type-C PD chips are reportedly lowering quotes to vie for orders in 2019, but the average unit prices of smartphone...

National Taiwan University (NTU) has begun trial run at its new cancer research center, which is primarily sponsored by Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) chairman Terry...

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IC design house VIA Technologies expects to be profitable in both 2018 and 2019 as the company has been preparing new products and technologies for areas such as artificial intelligence...

IC designer Etron Technology and its subsidiary eYs3D Microelectronics are gearing up to advance application of its natural light 3D image capturing technology to AR (augmented reality)...

Founded in November 2016 to develop and produce compound semiconductor epitaxial wafers, China's Epihouse, headquartered in the country's southeast port city of Xiamen, has kicked...

IBM has announced an agreement with Samsung to manufacture 7nm microprocessors for IBM Power Systems, IBM Z and LinuxONE, high-performance computing systems, and cloud offerings.

Xilinx has announced its Zynq-series SoC for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) has been adopted by China-based electric vehicle vendor BYD.

The board of directors of flexible PCB specialist Flexium Interconnect has approved plans to budget NT$8 billion (US$259.5 million) in capex for 2019, which will be utilized for capacity...

Ambarella, which develops high-resolution video processing and computer vision semiconductors, has announced it is partnering with Hella Aglaia, a developer of intelligent visual...

The supply of ABF (ajinomoto build-up film) substrates is unlikely to expand substantially in 2019, as most suppliers intend to be cautious about expanding capacity, according to...

Taiwan-based notebook ODMs including Wistron and Compal Electronics are actively tapping into the long-term care service sector by offering smart medical care solutions to hospitals,...