TSMC's planned advanced packaging plant in Miaoli, Northern Taiwan has passed environmental impact assessment, enabling the foundry house to kick off construction of the new fab in...

Third-quarter-2019 smartphone AP shipments to China-based vendors came to 210 million units, down 1.8% on quarter and 9.4% on year.

TSMC and UMC are set to allocate more of their available 12-inch fab capacities for the fabrication of display driver ICs in 2020 to satisfy growing demand for applications such as...

Synopsys has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire certain IP assets from eSilicon. This acquisition will expand Synopsys' DesignWare Embedded Memory IP portfolio...

Nan Ya PCB has disclosed plans to invest an additional US$48 million in its factory in Kunshan, China, where the Taiwan-based company will expand ABF substrate production capacity...

Taiwan's top PCB maker Zhen Ding Technology (ZDT) will budget a record high capex for 2020 and expects its revenues for the year to grow significantly from 2019 on stronger shipments...

The board of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has approved capital appropriations of about US$6.62 billion for the construction of new fab facilities, installation...

WPG, the largest IC distributor in Asia, has announced plans to acquire an up to 30% stake in fellow company WT Microelectronics at NT$45.80 (US$1.50) per share through open market...

The US-China trade war may be hurting the economy of both countries, but as far as the server industry is concerned, the impact on the Chinese market seems greater than that on the...

Taiwan-based PCB suppliers Compeq Manufacturing and Tripod Technology have both disclosed strong earnings for the third quarter of 2019 and that tight capacity for any-layer HDI boards...

IC design service providers Global Unichip and Alchip are both expected to report over 20% sequential increases in fourth-quarter revenues, thanks to robust orders for developing...

Unit prices for SoC chips used in true wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds have fallen below US$1.50 recently, down from US$2.50-3 in the first quarter of 2019, amid growing presence of...

High-density interconnection (HDI) PCB specialists including Compeq Manufacturing and Tripod Technology are both scheduled to have their new production capacities come online in 2021...

Taiwan's niche-type compound semiconductors makers including Intelligent Epitaxy Technology (IntelliEPI), Transcom and Global Communication Semiconductors are poised to embrace significant...

There has been much hype about the arrival of the 5G era, but 4G is still very much alive and kicking. Global smartphone sales have slowed down in 2019, but Taiwanese IC designers...