Backend demand for 8-bit microcontroller units (MCU) will stay weak through the end of the year, while demand for 32-bit MCUs, as well as industrial and automotive MCUs, will remain...

Speedtech, a Taiwan-based connector manufacturer, has announced new factory projects in Mexico and Malaysia to meet the needs of customers in the decentralized supply chain.

Some Taiwan-based IC design houses and other chip vendors in Japan and the US may cut their orders for semiconductor parts by 10-20% in the second quarter on top of weak demand in...

China- and Taiwan-based foundries have experienced cutbacks in automotive IC orders from not only their domestic fabless chipmakers but also customers in the US and Japan during the...

The details of the US CHIPS and Science Act (also known as the CHIPS Act) subsidies, which aims to rebuild the country's local semiconductor supply chain, have been released, but...

Samsung Electronics saw shipments increase 15% on year in the first quarter of 2023, benefitting from good midrange mobile application processor (AP) sales performance.

Total mobile PC (include notebook and tablet) panel shipments reached 479 million units in 2022, according to Omdia. This is the first time since 2020 that annual shipments came below...

Global IC design IP sales grew 20.2% in 2022, achieving US$6.6 billion in total revenues compared to the US$5.56 billion in 2021, according to the "Design IP Report" published by...

China-based semiconductor company Black Sesame has become Baidu's latest chip partner to support the latter's auto-navigation and valet parking solution. The chip unicorn has been...

Peripheral IC demand for Chromebooks and gaming notebooks have picked up since the first quarter of this year, according to sources at IC design houses.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has gained advanced chip orders shifted from Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) and other China-based foundries, which...

Some Chinese automakers reportedly are using the terms "vehicle grade" and "vehicle use" to adjust their automotive chip procurements to press down chip prices amid the current cutthroat...

Order visibility for the traditional peak season in the second half of this year is still unclear going into the second quarter, according to a number of IC design houses.

Cut-throat competition in China's car market reportedly is prompting a major Chinese automaker to lower the requirements for car-use chips in a bid to reduce production costs, according...

Although automotive chips are relatively stable in the semiconductor supply chain, the uncertainty of the overall economic environment has already impacted the purchasing power of...