Backend firms have received engineering samples of next-generation smartphone APs from vendors such as Qualcomm and MediaTek, and expect a particularly strong first-quarter 2022 for...

PCB and other handset component suppliers continue to see their China-based brand customers remain cautious about placing orders thus far in the second half of 2021, with order visibility...

Samsung sold nearly 300 million handsets in 2019, a number Samsung regards as its last line of defense, hoping to sell no less than 300 million handsets a year to sustain its business...

The global smartphone image sensor market in the first half of 2021 clocked a total revenue of US$7 billion, with Sony capturing a 42% share, according to Strategy Analytics.

Taiwan PCB makers, particularly those in the supply chain of new iPhones, are set to step up overtime production starting October 1 to better fulfill orders from Apple following a...

LCD panel prices will likely continue trending downward until the end of the first quarter or the beginning of the second quarter in 2022, according to industry sources in China.

Supply of leadframes for wirebonding packaging has been tight and will remain so through the end of 2022, which may be compounded if China's ongoing power curbs extend into fourth-quarter...

With the foundry sector being excluded from those that China's local governments have asked to curb power use by halting production for one or more days per week, output at wafer...

Taiwan-based PCB makers with manufacturing plants in Suzhou and Kunshan, China have been required to suspend production at their local fabs September 26-30 due to government-led power...

Increasing foundry and materials costs are prompting some major IC vendors in Taiwan to decide to raise their product...

Taiwan's PCB makers in the supply chain of iPhone 13 series are set to know whether Apple will cut or increase orders during the last week of September, but most of them are optimistic...

SEMICON Taiwan 2021 will be held from December 28-30, according to the organizer.

China-based Ferrotec Holdings and Xtek Semiconductor (Huangshi) have kicked off production of 12-inch reclaim wafers, becoming the industry pioneers in the country, according to industry...

Taiwan's OSATs have seen their plants in Suzhou, Jiangsu province little affected by a power supply cut enforced by China under its carbon reduction policy, but they are more concerned...

As part of its carbon reduction efforts, China is enforcing varying degrees of power cuts and rationing on industrial users in at least five provinces including Jiangsu and Guangdong,...