The world's top-15 semiconductor companies saw their combined sales surge 21% from a year earlier in the first quarter of 2021, 3pp greater than the 18% growth the total worldwide...

Pure-play foundry houses are requiring fabless chip vendors to prepay for the capacity bookings or to co-fund their capacity...

Murata Manufacturing and Cooler Master have jointly developed a vapor chamber with thickness of only 200um for electronics devices.

Ever-rising prices for raw materials are heaping great pressure on business operations of China-based PCB makers, with smaller ones even turning hesitant to take orders lest they...

Billings among North American manufacturers of semiconductor production equipment topped US$3 billion for the fourth consecutive month in April 2021, which also marked the fifth consecutive...

Backend house ASE Technology will have its in-house developed embedded die technology, dubbed "Advanced Embedded Active System Integration (aEASI)," mainly applied to processing automotive...

Microsoft is poised to open its datacenter in Taiwan at the end of this year or early 2022, according to industry sources.

The global supply of IC substrates will not see major inprovement until late 2021 or 2022 when Taiwan-based suppliers' additional capacity comes online, according to industry sourc...

Qualcomm is believed to have struck a long-term deal with United Microelectronics (UMC) under which the pure-play foundry will provide capacity support for the chip vendor over six...

Touch module provider General Interface Solution (GIS) has expressed optimism about shipment momentum for 2021, driven by growing demand for ultrasonic fingerprint sensing modules...

TSMC and other Taiwan-based pure-play foundries intend to carry out their capacity expansion projects cautiously and progressively to avoid the risk of overcapacity.

Memory prices have been rising, and contract quotes for DRAM and NAND flash are expected to see double-digit increases...

Taiwan's testing and inspection equipment vendor Test Research (TRI) is optimistic its 2021 business results will be better than 2020, driven by strong equipment demand for 5G, notebook...

Taiwan's MCU vendor Nuvoton Technology sees seriously tight supply of supply of 32-bit MCUs for midrange applications, according to industry sources.

Taiwan-based United Microelectronics (UMC), Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) and Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing (PSMC), China's Semiconductor Manufacturing International...