Cadence Design Systems and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) have jointly announced that the US-based EDA firm's analog/mixed-signal (AMS) IC design flow has achieved certification...

The latest escalation in the US-China trade war may have cast a shadow over the IT supply chain, but the world's top foundry house TSMC is seeing strong demand for its 7nm...

Worldwide sales of semiconductors reached US$98.2 billion during the second quarter of 2019, a small increase of 0.3% over the previous quarter, but 16.8% less than the second quarter...

RF component specialist RichWave Technology returned to profitability in the second quarter of 2019, when the company reported revenues surged 56.7% sequentially to NT$666 million...

HiSilicon Technologies, a chipset solution arm of Huawei, has been ramping up its chipset orders for 7nm and other advanced node products at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has enjoyed strong demand for 7nm chips and already utilized 100% of the process capacity since the third quarter of 2019, with orders...

The latest US move to slap 10% tariffs on US$300 billion worth of Chinese goods has cast a shadow over the prospect of a significant recovery for the IT supply chain in the second...

AMD has seen growing adoption of its new-generation 7nm chips including Ryzen 3000 seies processors and Radeon 5700 series GPUs by makers of PCs, motherboards and graphic cards as...

IC design service company Global Unichip has revised downward its revenue forecast this year to a double-digit drop from the flat growth estimated previously.

China-based solar-grade mono-Si wafer maker Tianjin Zhonghuan Semiconductor has acquired a 40% stake in China-based shingled array PV module maker DZS Solar from state-run power generation...

The Trump administration's latest move to slap a 10% tariff on the remaining US$300 billion worth of Chinese imports, including handsets, notebooks and TVs, starting September 1 may...

MediaTek has placed backend orders with Amkor Technology for its new 7nm SoC designed for low-band (sub-6GHz) 5G handsets, according to industry sources.

Global demand for monitor panels will remain weak in the third quarter of 2019 with prices of medium- to large-size panels to continue falling, according to industry sources.

The worst moment for Huawei's handset shipments has gone, and the Chinese vendor still has a chance of approaching its annual sales goal of 270 million units in 2019, further strengthening...

Apple has started making preparations since July ahead of the launch of new iPhones in September, but order momentum for touch panels and other components has been weak, according...